Turkey tops Google content removal request list Government requests to remove content from Google continued to rise in the first half of this year ******************** Five more released in Feb 28 trial, no arrested suspect left A Turkish court has released five more arrested suspects in the ongoing Feb 28 trial Switzerland Convicted of … Read more
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I hope the account will be back or I guess there will be many other accounts to pop up soon….For the moment the group uses this backup account: @KizilHackerLAR RedHack From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Redhack (Kızıl Hackerlar, Kızıl Hackerlar Birliği), is a Turkish Marxist computer hacker group which was founded in 1997. The group has claimed responsibility for hacking institutions … Read more
Another novel on the spot… AKP Men Don’t Wanna Watch Brad Pitt, Don’t Wanna Say “Vagina” from The Istanbulian by Emre Kızılkaya Two recent examples to show how progressive the AKP leaders are: * Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc condemned an opposition MP for saying “vagina” during her speech at the parliament floor. “I … Read more
Kurdish women protest against the trial of 44 journalists in Istanbul. Photograph: Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images Dozens of Kurdish journalists face terrorism charges in Turkey from World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Constanze Letsch, Luke Harding Human rights groups say country’s biggest ever media trial is attempt to intimidate press The biggest media trial in … Read more
Censorship (part I: in literature) Censorship in Iran is not something related to a specific government and cannot be referred only to post-revolution time. Even before Islamic Republic, it existed. In Shah’s time (in the other words: Pahlavi Period) books and newspapers were under the exact lenses of censorship, though it was done mostly on … Read more
Panel discussion becomes artistic town-hall meeting at İstanbul Modern Artist Bubi Hayon?s work that was removed from İstanbul Modern?s auction night titled ?Gala Modern.? A panel discussion at the İstanbul Modern Museum of Art earlier this week turned into a major debate on censorship and the state of contemporary art in Turkey after the … Read more
Documenting Tools for Beating Internet Censorship from EFF.org Updates by schoen Network censorship and surveillance is a booming business. Censorship schemes continue to fragment the Internet and new censorship proposals are constantly introduced around the world, including in liberal democracies. (Lately governments have gotten fascinated by the idea of forcing ISPs to censor particular sites … Read more
I think in the final analysis this is a face saving operation. Journalists’ arrest did not do good for the Ergenekon Case. Mr. Öz will still be around though he was a bit under pressure. Now new prosecutors to energize the process… Ergenekon Prosecutor Öz removed from case in reassignment by ISTANBUL – Daily News … Read more
I was out on Thursday afternoon on some personal issues and while I was offline, I basically missed all the initial excitement: Some people uploaded the banned book entitled as “Dokunan Yanar” [You are burned if you touch] which was previously entitled as “İmamın Ordusu [İmam’s Army]. The book focuses on allegations of Fethullah Gülen … Read more
Countries under surveillance Turkey Domain name : .tr Population : 77,804,122 Internet users : 35,000,000 Average monthly salary : 560 U.S. dollars Number of imprisoned netizens : 0 The YouTube saga Much was written throughout Turkey in 2010 about the fate of the Google-owned video-sharing website YouTube. Blocked in Turkey since May 2008 because of … Read more
1,469 Bodies in 114 Mass Graves – More to Come from Bianet :: English A research by the Turkish Medical Association revealed that the remains of 1,469 people were found in 114 mass graves so far, the real figure may exceed these numbers by far. The association is concerned about the obscuring of evidence during … Read more
Global Publics Embrace Social Networking Computer and Cell Phone Usage Up Around the World Another report: Generations 2010 by Kathryn Zickuhr Generation Y Likes Facebook More Than Television from All Facebook by Jackie Cohen If you have deja vu seeing statistics like these, join the club: Some 81 percent of affluent Generation Y adults logs … Read more
Courtroom sketches of Julian Assange from Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza English judges are less inclined to allow cameras, recording devices and other newfangled distractions into courtrooms than their American counterparts. This point was highlighted in recent days by Justice Ousley’s unprecedented decision to temporarily allow reporters to hammer away on Twitter as Julian Assange’s … Read more
What was Sivas Massacre? here Massacre photos here and here. Turkey commemorates Sivas massacre from Hurriyet Dailynews Turkish government authorities joined Friday for the first time ceremonies commemorating a massacre 17 years ago in the central Anatolian province of Sivas. Feminists from 22 Countries Meet in Istanbul from Bianet :: English Feminists from Greece and … Read more