Cengiz Aktar: Taksim Meydanı ile Karadeniz Otoyolu

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Taksim Meydanı ile Karadeniz Otoyolu Taksim?de trafiğin alta alınması hedefiyle yola çıkmış projeyi duymuşsunuzdur. Duymadıysanız www.taksimplatformu.org veyawww.akparti.org.tr/site/video/8291/taksim-meydani-projesi kaynaklarına başvurun. Tartışması yeniden başlayan bu konuyla ilgili bilgiye bu iki mecradan başka bir yerden ulaşmak mümkün değil ve sorunun büyük kısmı da burada. Platform, projenin şeffaf bir danışma, düzenleme ve denetleme evrelerinden geçmesi gerektiğini savunan ve bu haliyle projeye itiraz … Read more

“Merkel apologizes for the neo-Nazi killings” .. and a Turkish FP roundup..

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more photos of mourning ceremony in Germany here. Merkel apologizes for the neo-Nazi killing from Hurriyet Daily News Chancellor Angela Merkel has apologized publicly to the relatives of 10 people, mostly immigrants, suspected of being killed by a neo-Nazi group.   EU and Turkey: talks languish, trade booms by Acturca Associated Press (AP), February 21, … Read more

Eurovision 2012 Turkey: Can Bonomo – Love Me Back and some other Can Bonomo videos

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Eurovision 2012 Turkey: Can Bonomo – Love Me Back http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_F6H6–FrU His official site in English Can Bonomo – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can_Bonomo Can Bonomo (born 24 May 1987) is a Turkish singer of Sephardic Jewish descent who will represent Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku… Can Bonomo – Meczup Bana Bir Saz Verin … Read more

Eurosphere roundup: EU halts ACTA ratification; Civil rights activist new German president; Greek rescue package and more…

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EU halts ACTA ratification from Hurriyet Daily News The European Commission, facing steep opposition, is suspending efforts to ratify an international anti-counterfeiting agreement 10 things the EU should probably know about social media from Blogactiv by Mathew Lowry The ever-excellent For Immediate Release (episode 638) put me onto 10 things you still need to know … Read more

So the State confesses negligence in Dink murder… 1023 Child Political Convicts in 2010… EFD Rights Watch

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  Turkish state personnel knew Dink was to be killed, presidential board says from Hurriyet Daily News Turkey?s State Audit Board (DDK) completed a report into the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink today State confesses negligence in Dink murder from Today’s Zaman, your gateway to Turkish daily news :: Columnists by LALE KEMAL ?State … Read more

EFD has a new contributor! Vassilis Danellis writes on “Greece and the European Autumn”

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Greece and the European Autumn   By Vassilis Danellis In the evening of February 12, the lounge of the Greek Parliament House was full of lawmakers watching the football game between the league leading team Panathinaikos and its tough opponent Xanthi, while they were waiting for an important debate to start. A debate on the … Read more

Cumhur Bumudur: Normaller marjinalleşir, marjinaller normalleşirken

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Normaller marjinalleşir, marjinaller normalleşirken   via Sahiplendiğimiz kara parçası bukalemundan evrilme her devrin adamı köşe yazarlarıyla da meşhurdur. Bu köşe yazarları,  bulvar gazetelerinin,  ülkemiz sosyokültürel iklimine adapte olurken her nasılsa ülkemiz insanında ?ciddi?  ve ?güvenilir? kanısı da oluşturabilmiş türevlerinde yazarlar. Bu bulvar gazetelerinden devşirme gazetelerin de içi boştur, köşe yazarlarının yazdıklarının da? Amaç, bolca sansasyon, … Read more

Yandex debuts “social search program”; Reddit users writing a law… a cyberculture roundup..

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Yandex processes 2 million+ people searches daily, debuts ?social search program? from The Next Web by Robin Wauters Yandex, Russia?s biggest Internet search and related services company, this morning announced the launch of a?social search program? (note: links to page in Russian), aiming to inject content and account information from a wide variety of local … Read more

Deniz Ergürel: Sosyal medya araçları nasıl para kazanır?

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Sosyal medya araçları nasıl para kazanır? from Deniz Ergürel – Medya Blogum by Deniz Ergürel Son yıllarda milyonlarca insanın iletişim biçimini değiştiren en önemli araç nedir diye bir tartışma başlatsak çoğumuzun vereceği cevap muhtemelen ?sosyal medya? olacaktır. Üstelik büyük ihtimalle bu tartışmayı yine Facebook veya Twitter gibi bir sosyal medya ağında yapıyor olacağız. Yakın zamanda yapılan bir araştırmaya … Read more

our lovely Library.nu closed down by a coalition of international publishers so that we can continue to BUY their expensive books

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the best alternative seems to be this: http://gen.lib.rus.ec but not good enough… update: Some friends recommended this site. I haven’t checked it yet though… http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks update2: another seemingly working alternative: http://en.bookfi.org/ update3: Dear Kaan Öztürk has posted a “requiem” for library nu in Turkish. have a look. I found 3 more alternative sites from that post: http://www.libgen.info/ http://lib.org.by/ http://gen.lib.rus.ec/ Book … Read more

Erkan quoted here: “Discarding Reform, Turkey Uses the Law to Repress [there is also the Turkish version]

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Attacks on the Press in 2011: Turkey’s Legal Problem Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, buoyed by a landslide election victory, has led an attack on press freedom. (AP/Boris Grdanoski)   With the aid of anachronistic legislation and a rigid judiciary, Turkish officials and politicians have curbed free expression by subjecting journalists to endless court … Read more

10 Bands in the The History Of Black Metal; Best Hair Metal ballads… A metal roundup

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10 Bands That Shaped The History Of Black Metal from Metal Injection by Jeremy Ulrey BLACK METAL: to some it’s the purest embodiment of uncompromising musical nonconformity, while to others it’s the meme that keeps on giving (I predict knit corpsepaint ski masks will be all the rage before February wraps up). These are not … Read more

15. bölümünde @sosyalkafa bakın kimleri ağırlıyor:

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 Ersan Özer (@ersanozer) Sosyalkafa 15. bölümüyle 21 Şubat Salı 22.00?de BJKTV?DE (Digiturk 74.Kanal)   Dijital yerlilerin programı sosyalkafa 14 Şubat Sevgililer Günü ile gündeme gelen arkadaşlık sitelerini konu ediyor. Facebook üzerinden açılan anketimiz devam ediyor: http://on.fb.me/ykVDR6 Konuklarımız arasında istanbul.net gibi şehirlere özel arkadaşlık sitelerinin kurucusu; uzman.tv ile itiraf.com?u hayata geçiren ve televizyonda bir çok programa … Read more

#artikCAGLAYANolmavakti- Fenerbahçe fans back their president in the match-fixing trial!

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Turkey’s match-fixing case continues in Istanbul  from Hurriyet Daily News Suspects in Turkey?s landmark match-fixing case are expected to     [<a href=”http://storify.com/sakaerka/artikcaglayanolmavakti-fenerbahce-fans-back-their” target=”_blank”>View the story “#artikCAGLAYANolmavakti- Fenerbahçe fans back their presidents in the match-fixing trial! ” on Storify</a>]

Fetih 1453 screens… Reviews of “Night of Silence” and “Beyond the Hill” Berlinale Forum victors……

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I haven’t seen Fetih 1453 yet but all I hear confirms my prejudices that this is a high budget work of crude neo ottoman nationalist imagination with not much quality. Female viewers did not find the Sultan handsome, too;) Fetih 1453 – IMDb Fetih 1453 (OFFICIAL TEASER) – YouTube Fetih 1453 İstanbul conquered yet again on the … Read more