Meanwhile in Washington DC, “Turkey’s finance minister held the worst IMF-World Bank meeting ever…

I was passing through Washington DC when I heard the news that Mr. Albarak and his entourage are in town to ask for investments in Turkey. Not a single person I met uttered a positive comment about his performance. Such a pity. Lira continues to fall, there is the decade long record of employment rate … Read more

EFD Rights Watch: Turkey rated ‘not free’ [Again] in internet freedom in new Freedom House report…

Report here Turkey rated ‘not free’ in internet freedom in new Freedom House report Internet freedom in Turkey has been rated “not free” in the latest annual report by the Washington-based watchdog Freedom House, a downgrade from its “party free” status last year Message of Solidarity From Margaret Atwood to Aslı Erdoğan on PEN’s Day of The … Read more

Turkey’s Saturday Night Crackdown on Internet: Google Drive, Dropbox banned…

…due to the fact that Redhack, a Turkey based hacker group, released Erdoğan’s son-in-law’s (Berat Albayrak) hacked emails… It is a torrent file in fact. Not much can be done to prevent people reading the stuff. But you know, authorities are not always rational… This will just cause more pain for users and more revenues … Read more

After claims of hacked emails, Turkish polices make arrests of alleged #RedHack members including #TaylanKulaçoğluYalnızDeğildir

Redhack Twitter account yesterday declared that it hacked a huge bundle of emails that belonged to Berat Albayrak, minister of Energy and also son-in-law of President Erdoğan. After releasing a few emails that were allegedly belonging to Mr. Albayrak, Redhack stated that they would release all by Monday if leftist activists were not released.  Turkish State’s response was … Read more