A Simple/simplistic short guide to the current wave of popular protests in Israel via Some Israelis simply couldn’t bear it no more. People of the self-designated “only democracy in the Middle East” looked around them and lo and behold: Arabs are coming out to the streets, risk their lives for the sake of regime-change, and … Read more
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I have seen today a campaign is about to start to support Greek daily Apoyevmatini which has been published in Istanbul since 1925!… Because of the economic crisis in Greece, the daily lost its support from Greece sources and its application to get official ad support from the Turkish state has been rejected. After an … Read more
Photo Gallery by Seçil Altınışık: Istanbul’s Gay Pride March Homosexuals demand rights at Istanbul’s Gay Pride March Hurriyet Daily News Thousands took to the streets Sunday to express their support for Turkey’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, or LGBT, community and to protest against hate crimes on the last day of Istanbul’s 19th LGBT Pride … Read more
Clashes come to the very center of İstanbul. Pro-Kurdish deputies pepper-sprayed in Istanbul from Hurriyet Dailynews by ISTANBUL- From online dispatches Deputies protesting the stripping of independent candidate Hatip Dicle?s deputyship by the Supreme Election Board, of YGS, were sprayed with tear gas by police in Istanbul on Sunday. Supporters of Turkey’s Kurdish … Read more
Higher Election Council (YSK) cancelled the MP status of pro-Kurdish BDP candidate Hatip Dicle yesterday. Since then BDP fans are protesting. As of 19, there started a march in Taksim and there are reports of police brutality and despite that protests continue. I will collect twitter reports here: https://twitter.com/#!/theserendipity/status/83582986561396736 https://twitter.com/#!/theserendipity/status/83581837481488384 https://twitter.com/#!/organiktus/status/83581975109173249 https://twitter.com/#!/ASLIERDAL/status/83574722046078976 https://twitter.com/#!/nianerten/status/83576256066621441 https://twitter.com/#!/_chiquitita_/status/83575429277040640 https://twitter.com/#!/_chiquitita_/status/83573782245154816 … Read more
Reporters Without Borders urged the Turkish government today to prove it supports the media freedom it proclaimed during the recent election campaign. The appeal came in a report called ?Media and justice in Turkey ? mistrust and repression? after recent fact-finding visits by the worldwide media freedom organisation to investigate the hounding and prosecution of … Read more
The show centers on the famous artist?s films and polaroids, which are coming to Turkey?s largest city for the first time ?Displaying works that captured the beauty of the glamorous in the everyday, Istanbul?s Galerist is hosting a much-anticipated exhibition of iconic 20th-century artist Andy Warhol throughout June. ************ 3-Day Vigil in the Heart of … Read more
32 detained in 11 cities in Turkey and they are held for interrogation in Ankara. 8 of them are under 18… News in Turkish here and in English here. Anonymous attack triggered nationalist reactions in Turkey. A brief summary of the range of attack can be found here. A hot debate took place here. It … Read more
It?s not normal that Europeans go looking for serious debate and see MEP?s cucumber from Public Affairs 2.0 by fhbrussels Image courtesy of European Parliament From our bent bananas to nutritious and safe Spanish cucumbers we love our fruit and vegetables here in the Brussels bubble. So much so it seems that our elected representatives … Read more
update: more than 200 photos uploaded in the galery now… Photos in the gallery mostly taken by Erkan Saka, Ferhat Yurdam and Beril Toper. …and Simge Sezer offers 80 more photos here. And that’s Beril’s video: The gallery here: Internet’ime Dokunma Yürüyüşü
The march in Istanbul will start at Taksim Square at 14. There are many other planned marches in all over Turkey. Some organizers expect 100,000 demonstrators in Taksim. I suppose if 10 thousand shows up, it is definitely a good sign. In half an hour, I will be in Taksim Square located in a cafe … Read more
Why is Turkish government messing with Internet? Turkish Prime Minister: Facebook Is ?Ugly Technology? 1. Because it is an unruly environment. PM Erdoğan’s intense media bashing along with more practical sanctions gave way to an AKP hegemony over the mainstream media. All major anti-AKP newspapers, TV channels, media conglomerations in general are more or … Read more
BTK (State Internet Authority) members visiting the President. I don’t see any hope for netizens from this photo:) On Aug 22, Turkish authorities are planning to start a filtering system for all citizens. Unapologetically, Turkey aims for a censored web…. Turkish netizens started to campaign on Twitter in order to demonstrate this sinister and shameless … Read more
Doğa, kültür, kent talanına karşı Anadolu Yürüyüşü Buralara kapitalizmin vahşisi şimdi geliyor esas. Kuralsızlaştırma (deregulation) ile yürüyen, kararları birkaç adamın aldığı rant, tüketim ve israf ekonomisinden söz ediyoruz. Çılgın Proje bunun mükemmel örneği. Topyekûn saldırı karşısında içeride ve dışarıda toplumsal tepki, farkındalık ve bilinç hergün artıyor. Büyük Anadolu Yürüyüşü bu yolda atılan milyonlarca adım. Yürüyüş … Read more