Locals protest mining efforts in Turkey’s northeast In the Black Sea province of Artvin, locals protested a company’s efforts to extract mine in Cerattepe region with the support of police and military officers in armed vehicles Attack against People Opposing Copper Mine in Artvin Bianet :: English Security forces have attacked with pepper gas on people keeping … Read more
New president appointed to Turkish communications board ahead of key 4.5G tender Ömer Fatih Sayan was appointed the head of the Information and Communications Technologies Authority (BTK) on Aug. 25, ahead of a key telecommunications tender on Aug. 26 The three most innovative Turkish women of 2015 The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Technology Review magazine … Read more
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seçim günlüğü Adaylar Hatipoğlu?na Diyarbakır önerisi AK Parti?nin, Diyarbakır Belediye Başkanlığı için ilahiyatı Prof.Dr. Nihat Hatipoğlu?na adaylık önerisinde bulunduğu öğrenildi. Demirtaş: “Gültan Kışanak Diyarbakır’a çok iyi başkan olur” CNN Türk BDP Eş Başkanı Selahattin Demirtaş, Gültan Kışanak’ın Diyarbakır Büyükşehir Belediye Başkanlığına adaylığı iddialarına ilişkin, “Diyarbakır’da çok iyi bir belediye başkanı olacağını düşünüyorum” dedi. BDP … Read more
The Economist has been AKP friendly for most of the time, this comes as a blow to AKP leadership.. Well in order to have more headcounts, they have lost so many friends that they will eventually regret… The Turkish election: Erdogan’s last hurrah (possibly) | The Economist Erdogan’s last hurrah (possibly) The election on June … Read more
Massive Police Intervention against Anti-AKP Demonstrators from Bianet :: English Heavy clashes occurred between demonstrators and the police before and after a meeting of PM Erdoğan in Hopa in north-eastern Turkey. The police threw many gas bombs and made use of water cannons. One person died, many protestors and policemen were injured. Istanbul and Izmir … Read more
Update 02:44 a.m. There are reports that security forces have made arrest at night in Hopa. Here is a video in which Metin Lokumcu can be seen… Increasingly tense AKP government triggers more and more police brutality towards protestors. Before PM Erdoğan’s election rally, protestors clashed with police. A retired teacher, Metin Lokumcu died of … Read more
At noon we arrived Erzurum. Artvin was an inviting blend of secularism and religiosity. I did hang out with local boys, we went to Kafkasör Yaylası, had a BBQ, drank some. Some were fasting some were not. We did break iftar together. I was told Artvin was called “little Moscow” in the old times, as … Read more
This is a panoramic view of Artvin city center… We spend the day in Artvin and head to Erzurum tomorrow… The weather is better but not as cool as I desired…Well today we will some plateaus, maybe some cold weather will finally emerge…