last updated: 01 Nov 2010 http://warlogs.wikileaks.org/ Biggest Military Leak in History: WikiLeaks Releases 390,000 Iraq War Documents from Mashable! by Ben Parr WikiLeaks has once again captured international headlines with the release of 391,832 secret Iraq War documents that reveal new information about detainee treatment, civilian deaths, and the involvement of Iran in backing Iraqi … Read more
Despite much better football compared to previous years, Beşiktaş wounded hard due to lack of injured stars Q7 and Guti. and defensive line in shambles. Ferrari injured, our goalkeepers are either injured or making unbelievable mistakes… Eagles were beaten by Porto: 1-3 from Since1903.org Besiktas JK Fan Site The game was being played out as … Read more
A special report on Turkey: Doing it by the book | The Economist A special report on Turkey: The Davutoglu effect | The Economist Analysis: Turkey hesitates on missile defense from Yahoo news Turkey finds itself once again in an awkward position between fellow NATO members and Iran as it considers a proposal to place … Read more
It is hard to see much progress in slow-motion Turkish judiciary, especially when the trial is big. KCK trial looks like Ergenekon Case in terms of scale and political motivations and the first week passed by only reading the summary of Indictment… Court Dismissed Request for Defence in Kurdish from Bianet :: English The Diyarbakır … Read more
Here is the link for the report…. The state of journalism in Turkey is miserable. Journalists themselves are part of the problem but the state, the government, the judiciary make it worse… Turkey in Free Fall from Bianet :: English Turkey ranges in 138th position among 178 countries reviewed for the World Press Freedom Index … Read more
PEW Featured Report: Americans and their gadgets In recent years the digital world has expanded far beyond the desktop, and consumers can now choose from an array of devices capable of satisfying their need for “anytime, anywhere” access to news, information, friends and entertainment: Facebook And Zynga Sued Over Privacy from All Facebook by Caitlin … Read more
A too busy day, I could only have time to publish it now… My best songs lists will continue next week… album of the week The Clans Will Rise Again ~ Grave Digger new stuff Black Swans & Wormhole Wizards ~ Joe Satriani Aqua ~ Angra Revamp ~ Revamp Consequence of Power ~ Circle II … Read more
here is the website for the project… “In order to open this debate up to a wider interested public (including non-German speakers) we begin today by introducing some of the main thinkers and voices: intellectuals such as Necla Kelek, Thilo Sarrazin, Bassam Tibi, Henryk M. Broder, Stefan Luft, Ralph Giordano, Claus Leggewie, Werner Schiffauer, Seyran … Read more
Here comes the 9th episode of Sosyal Medya. I just heard that our program will be broadcasted on Monday nights after this week. I was told it is good. But I do not what the criteria are really. Sabah columnist Şelale Kadak will discuss mobile internet and journalist-internet relations. Vatan columnist, Sanem Altan who happens … Read more
Yargıtay (The Supreme Court of Appeals of Turkey ) today made the headlines. It announced that YÖK’s latest move, allowing headscarfed women to universities, is not right, it violates Constitutional and European Court decisions. After the HSYK defeat, this seems to be a last breath shot of the Kemalist judiciary… I don’t believe Yargıtay’s move … Read more
EU drops Roma charge against Paris from FT.com – World, Europe European Commission drops planned legal action against France over its failure to implement migration law that was mooted in connection with Roma crackdown Is Europe a la Carte the new Integration Model? from Social Europe Journal by Henning Meyer No, this is not a … Read more
Here is a list of relationship/matchmaking sites that are located in Turkey or focus on Turkish audiences… Suggestions are always welcome… 1) Sites like OkCupid are increasingly used in Turkey… 2) I have not included any sites that focus on Gay matchmaking. In fact, I could not find… Gay focused sites I could find offer … Read more
New radical design for Radikal Daily from Editors Weblog – all postings by Heather Holm The Radikal Daily, a newspaper in Turkey, has adopted a tabloid format and new columnists under editor Eyüp Can, states Today’s Zaman. “The Doğan Media Group recently decided to merge Referans, a daily economic review, and Radikal and replaced former … Read more
16 October 2010: Interview with Turkish president Abdullah Gul on integration, Islamophobia, Turkish EU accession, and “Islamic Calvinists” from European Stability Initiative – News Abdullah Gul in Süddeutsche Zeitung Turkish president Abdullah Gul gave a long … ******************************** German President to Speak Before Turkish Parliament from NYT > Turkey by By JUDY DEMPSEY On Monday, … Read more
Good for me, I haven’t read him, too… Another author for the to do list… Howard Jacobson Wins Man Booker Prize from Writerswrite.com’s Writer’s Blog The Telegraph reports that Writer and broadcaster Howard Jacobson won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction for his 11th novel, The Finkler Question. Jacobson, 68, is the oldest writer to … Read more