5 Stories To Understand Pro-AKP Assault on Turkey’s Largest Newspaper The Istanbulian by Emre Kızılkaya That stone… Tweets from AKP MP who took part in Hürriyet protest show he had supported Al-Nusra An AKP deputy has stirred controversy on social media with an old tweet in which he showed support for an al-Qaeda-linked group, hours after he … Read more
The choice for young Syrian men: leave or learn to kill | Letters from Kate Clow, Margaret Cox, Maureen McGregor, Cath Hallam and Gina Crowley World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk As a Turkish citizen/resident on the south coast of Turkey, I see nothing of the Syrian refugees who are living in the camps along the Syrian … Read more
Report: Twitter is Growing as a Real-Time News Platform All Facebook by Kimberlee Morrison Digital dreams and open skies: universal service and the BBC open Democracy News Analysis – by Sylvia Harvey As mobile providers take over spectrum from broadcasters, the age of ‘free-to-air’ transmission could be coming to an end. Image: Flickr / Luke Wroblewski What … Read more
Civilian entry blocked in 127 eastern Turkish zones since early June Some 127 zones in 15 provinces in eastern Turkey have so far been declared “temporary military secure zones,” amid tightened security measures against outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) attacks Turkey to vote in November snap poll BBC News | Europe | World Edition Snap elections are … Read more
Most popular programming languages shift at Github Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza Driven by the web and Android, Javascript and Java reign. Ruby and C lose ground. PHP lumbers on, impervious. Somewhere in the distance, a Perl script barks mournfully. Wargames-style map shows ongoing internet attacks Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza The Norse Map is a Wargames-style … Read more
Ashley Madison leak 2.0: new dump is twice as large, and includes CEO’s emails Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin Self-proclaimed Ashley Madison hackers the Impact Team today released what looks like another 20 gigabytes of ill-gotten data. The just-dropped “other shoe” includes emails from the cheater-dating website’s CEO. Swarm 3.0, over-gamified, missed its chance with me The … Read more
HDP Appeals to UN for Extrajudicial Executions and Enforced Disappearances Bianet :: English Peoples’ Democratic Party demanded an investigation from UN Rapporteur for “illegal, extrajudicial and arbitrary executions” in Turkey. US drone strikes Syria from Turkey BBC News | Europe | World Edition The US has carried out its first air strike on so-called Islamic State in … Read more
Following its massive data breach, surveillance firm Hacking Team says it will release a new spyware suite this fall The Next Web by Abhimanyu Ghoshal Barely a week after it was hacked and had 400GB of its internal documents and product source code leaked, security firm Hacking Team says it’s ready to fight another day. Apple Could Have … Read more
Turkey’s Erdogan, master tactician, seen angling for new election Reuters.com – Orhan Coskun – Jun 12, 8:12 AM – ANKARA President Tayyip Erdogan’s statesmanlike appeals for Turkey’s rival parties to leave egos aside and form a new government may suggest the combative leader has turned over a new leaf, but even those close to him … Read more
Presidential palace should be vacated over election results, Turkish architects say President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s 1,150-room mega-palace and its residents should immediately be evicted, an architects’ NGO has said in a statement CNN’s Amanpour interviews ‘the man who took on Erdoğan’ CNN’s Christian Amanpour conducted a live interview with HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş on June 8, following … Read more
Franz Kafka’s Kafkaesque Love Letters Open Culture by Josh Jones It’s easy to think of Franz Kafka as a celibate, even asexual, writer. There is the notable lack of eroticism of any recognizable sort in so much of his work. There is the prominent biographical detail—integral to so many interpretations—of his outsized fear of his father, … Read more
Ankara’s trigger button: Armenian ‘genocide‘ As the centenary of the mass killings nears, Turkish officials will lambast anyone who dares uses the ‘G-word’. AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (IN DEPTH) / Turkey says it ‘shares’ Armenia pain …pectfully remember” deaths of Armenians in 1915 but stops short of recognising the killings as genocide BBC News | Europe … Read more
The Guardian, CNN, Reuters, and more enter into a global ad alliance Nieman Journalism Lab by Justin Ellis Five of the biggest online news publishers in the world are joining up to form asupercontinent. For advertising. With The Pangaea Alliance, The Guardian, CNN International, Reuters, The Financial Times, and The Economist are creating an advertising network … Read more
2015 AAA Leadership Fellows Program American Anthropological Association The AAA Leadership Fellows Program provides a unique opportunity for anthropologists early in their careers to learn about leadership opportunities within the association. Each year a group of three to five fellows will be paired with a mentor chosen from among AAA leadership. Mentors are available to fellows … Read more
New rules governing drone journalism are on the way — and there’s reason to be optimistic Nieman Journalism Lab by Matt Waite Today we got our first real look into what the FAA intends to do about regulating drones in U.S. airspace — and frankly, it’s surprisingly flexible and permissive given what the agency has required … Read more