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Klaus Jurgens on Turkey?s future media professionals

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Promoting an uncensored press: Meet Turkey?s future media professionals

by KLAUS JURGENS
As 2010 is by now two days old and the nation holds its breath as new revelations are made about shady underworld networks as well as ?official? deep state involvement, with the discovery of the so-called ?cosmic rooms? being only one of the topics, I thought it necessary to give column space to some members of Turkey?s younger generation.

Dinç Bilgin interview in Star.

It is not the first time, old media conglomerate Dinç Bilgin, ex-rival of Aydın Doğan talks “honestly”. But here you are are, another one he talks about his days as a media conglomerate. (In Turkish though)

and more on media…

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We want it all: Turkey will ask for the return of the bones of Saint Nicholas..

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Turkey to become 16th Largest World Economy in 2014 from Mavi Boncuk by M.A.M Mavi Boncuk| Turkey was the 8th fastest growing economy during 1994-2009 time frame at an average annual rate of 6.2% and Real GDP growth was 250% and will make Turkey the 16th Largest World Economy by 2014 with 1.13 trillion dollar … Read more

FT on Wikipedia: “Wikipedia: Fact and friction

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Wikipedia: Fact and friction By Richard Waters Published: January 1 2010 22:17 | Last updated: January 1 2010 22:17 It is one of the great paradoxes of the internet: an essentially open medium has created deeply entrenched information powers. Within a remarkably short time, companies such as Google, YouTube and Facebook have come to dominate … Read more

Spanish Council Presidency (begins with a failing website acc to Eurobloggers)

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Spanish Presidency official site.

Spain takes over EU presidency as Turkey eyes progress

Spanish Council presidency website is a failure

by Julien Frisch

I totally agree with The European Citizen and Grahnlaw that the website of the Spanish EU Council presidency is a failure, uninspiring and absolutely not useful for the public.

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Tanpınar in English

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The masterpiece of Turkish literature’s one of the greatest novelists (Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar) is published in English. “A mind at Peace” is so powerful that your mind will not be in peace after that (!) Enjoy! Book | A Mind at Peace by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar from Mavi Boncuk by M.A.M The first inaugural Istanbul … Read more

Erkan’s collection of year lists: 2007-2010

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Update: 3 Jan 2010 Some links may not work. 2007 2008 2009 2010 caricaturque has a great collection of New year greeting e-cards: Greeting e-cards arrived on the New Year’s Eve and more here New Year 2010 greeting e-cards most recently received From the anthro world: Happy New Year with lists!

Special issue: State-Society Relations in the Southeast (Turkey)

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State-Society Relations in the Southeast from European Journal of Turkish Studies Re-considering State-Society Dynamics in Turkey?s Kurdish southeast [Full text] Nicole F. Watts Kurdish Nationalism and Identity in Turkey: A Conceptual Reinterpretation [Full text] Güneş Murat Tezcür The Shared Political Production of ?the East? as a ?Resistant? Territory and Cultural Sphere in the Kemalist Era, … Read more

Turkey’s national security not compromised in the Cosmic room search…

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…because cosmic room residents were busy with creating internal enemies and crushing them….

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Kenan Evren (L), former chief of staff who could lead the coup d’etat and İlker Başbuğ (R) who could not lead perform the coup d’etat. Eminimsi blog plays with a traditional drawing that compares the vendor who sells on cash and who sells on account…

‘Secularists have little respect for people’s votes, human rights’
Today’s Zaman
Nobel laureate and Turkish author Orhan Pamuk on Tuesday criticized secularists in Turkey who consider democracy a threat that may turn the country into an

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Erkan’s Field Diary wishes a happy 2010…

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VIA

Special days like New Year’s Eve make me so tense. Social pressure. Such alienation, such loneliness. It all comes back to Durkheim’s arguments in Suicide. I hope it passes very quickly. As a man of ordinary life and finding bliss in it, it is very hard to go through these days. Yesterday we had a Faculty happy new year cocktail. I found refuge in my office and out of frustration, I did this silly thing of collecting interesting happy new year images in the web while checking my emails and finding tens of  new year greetings. Yes, I have my own resolutions and plans and hopeful indeed but of course happiness and peace of mind are not something planned to happen… In this sunny Istanbul afternoon, I meet with Çetin and other friends to make the final decision on Milli İstirahat’s template. We re-launch our old fanzine as a a web-zine any time now. This might make me happy.

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VIA

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Istanbul is ready for the new year night (Erkan is not though)

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Special new year lightning-work at Beyoğlu, Taksim. Technicalities given here in Turkish. Sofyali 9: Keeping it Real in Asmalimescit from Istanbul Eats by admin It?s hard not to feel pangs of nostalgia when walking through Beyoglu?s booming Asmalimescit neighborhood these days (and nights). The old corner butcher shop with its window display of lamb carcasses? … Read more

7 Myths And Facts About Citizen Journalism

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Citizen journalism refers to people who often do not have any real training in journalism reporting news or commenting on current events.  With the advent of the internet, average people gained a powerful voice that was once only available to professional journalists.  People misunderstand much about the concept and practice of citizen journalism.  The following 7 myths and facts about citizen journalism will help to reveal the truth of this form of journalism.

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R.I.P: James ?The Rev? Sullivan

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Meshuggah’s Alive (DVD+CD), out on February 5, 2010 (Europe) and February 9, 2010 (America)

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Beşiktaş has a new goal keeper

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Turkey's Sports Minister Faruk Nafiz Ozak (R) and President ...

Turkey’s Sports Minister Faruk Nafiz Ozak (R) and President of Turkey’s Football Federation Mahmut Ozgener pose with the bid logo for the Euro 2016 candidacy, following a news conference in Istanbul December 23, 2009. Turkey would bring a passion and spirit to Euro 2016 missing from the 2008 tournament, Ozak told a campaign launch on Wednesday. Turkey, bidding to host its first major international soccer tournament, faces competition from France and Italy after Sweden and Norway appear likely to drop their joint application.REUTERS/Murad Sezer

Our first and second goal keepers are injured at the same time.So we borrowed one… and more from Beşiktaş and Turkish super league..

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Beşiktaş has reached an agreement to rent Ramazan Ozcan until the end of the season. Ozcan currently plays for Hoffenheim. VIA

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Ertuğrul Özkök resigns.

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update: 05 Jan 2010 (Aydın Doğan is gone, too) Probably one of the most reviled Turkish journalist, Ertuğrul Özkök resigned from his position as the Chief Editor of Hürriyet. His Wikipedia portrayal is ironic: Ertuğrul Özkök is a Turkish journalist and a daily columnist, currently the editorial writer for Hürriyet, a daily newspaper published in … Read more

Adopting scanners; a pretext for more surveillance

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Dutch press EU to adopt scanners; Dutch authorities want the EU to make passenger scanners mandatory, saying they might have foiled an airline bomber.

They could foil the attack if intelligence network really worked. It seems that even the father of this moron attacker indeed informed the security services. One cannot help thinking that there is a bit of conspiracy here. There is already a huge flow of intelligence that cannot be processed- that was what also happened in September 11- and but more and more surveillance over citizens wanted by the authorities… 

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