In the last couple of days, PKK attacked police headquarters in Kurdish populated towns. Diyarbakır, Van and today Bitlis and Elazığ. Pro-AKP columnists are quick to explain rising number of attacks with conspiracy theories- as usual: One line of ideas is that, now that coup attempt failed, another plot against Turkey by imperial forces by … Read more
Turkey is set to release up to 38,000 prisoners Turkey is set to release 38,000 prisoners as part of two new state of emergency decrees published in the Official Gazette on Aug. 17, in an apparent move to reduce its prison population to make space for thousands of people who have been arrested as part of … Read more
Özgür Gündem daily in Wikipedia Better to watch this movie about the daily. https://twitter.com/nateschenkkan/status/765557690210869248 camera confiscated & news team detained on @imc_televizyonu live broadcast from shut down newspaper @ozgurgundemweb1 https://t.co/lS0Hmbshn4 — emel kurma (@emelkurma) August 16, 2016 Kapatma kararının ardından Özgür Gündem’e polis baskını: Gazeteciler gözaltındahttps://t.co/qjFWEHHPE7 pic.twitter.com/kfmvUvQORL — imc tv (@imc_televizyonu) August 16, 2016 … Read more
Ankara voices ‘disappointment’ to Swedish envoy over age of consent tweet The Foreign Ministry has summoned Sweden’s chargé d’affaires in Turkey, upon a claim from Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom that Turkey had legalized sex with underage children Chemical castration of sex offenders in Turkey condemned by women’s groups World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Constanze Letsch … Read more
Earwitnesses of a Coup Night: The Many Media Infrastructures of Social Action The particularly cruel scenes in Ankara and Istanbul from July 15th and 16th circulated quickly. From eye witness accounts to images detached from their context, media users, viewers and readers was soon seeing the graphic depictions of what had happened with the added … Read more
A short report by Philipp Budka 1) EASA Media Anthropology Network Meeting (21 July 2016) Philipp Budka introduced the network, its history and its activities to a group of about 15 people, some new and some regular participants to the network’s meetings at EASA conferences. The network, which was established in 2004, has particularly become known for … Read more
Putin mends broken relations with Turkey’s Erdogan BBC News | Europe | World Edition The leaders of Russia and Turkey patch up a damaging quarrel, pledging to restore close economic relations in St Petersburg. Russia-Turkey rapprochement revives Turkish Stream pipeline talks EurActiv.com by Sarantis Michalopoulos Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday (8 August) that Ankara was … Read more
All the death penalty talk maybe tactical as it is hard to catch up with Turkish leadership’s discursive tactics, but some of these are so primitive that even mentioning them signifies where one heads to… Well, you can also say, EU is not a target for a long while now.. Erdoğan: I will approve death penalty if parliament … Read more
This image has been used by many, in Turkey but also internationally until it is debunked. In fact, despite the debunking, all pro-government media continues to use. We are going through a massive nationalist theatre in which there is no place for factuality or no place anything smaller than “mega” scale. The rally must be … Read more
Turks Can Agree on One Thing: U.S. Was Behind Failed Coup NYT > Turkey by By TIM ARANGO and CEYLAN YEGINSU Turks of all stripes believe the United States was involved in the coup attempt, especially because the cleric suspected of leading it lives in Pennsylvania. Austria is capital of radical racism, says Turkish foreign minister World … Read more
Record number of EU terror attacks recorded in 2015 BBC News | Europe | World Edition A record number of terrorist attacks were planned, foiled or carried out in European Union countries last year, with the UK reporting the highest number of attacks. EU, US reject UN plan to resettle refugees EurActiv.com by admin The European Union … Read more
Tip: Check out this guide for journalists covering the #Rio2016 Olympics Journalism.co.uk Journalists headed to Rio? Here’s how to stay safe and find new reporting angles for your coverage ‘We need to stay agile’: The AJ+ take on the future of distributed news Journalism.co.uk ‘We’re looking at how we can do things differently now that a lot … Read more
There was an easiness on academics’ movement abroad before but it seems that this has changed. However, things are getting weird. Although we have not received a written statement about the issue, academics cannot use their annual leaves any more for an indefinite period. You may travel within Turkey but you are not supposed to go … Read more
The Academic’s Guide to Social Media Author discusses book on how and why academics should use social media for scholarly purposes. July 22, 2016 By Carl Straumsheim Writing about social media is “dangerous,” according to Mark Carrigan, a sociologist and academic technologist at the University of Warwick, in Britain. In the time to take … Read more
Iceland are out of the Euros, but they’re still the Internet’s undisputed champions Mashable! by Sam Haysom LONDON — Iceland may have been beaten 5-2 by France and knocked out of the Euro 2016 football tournament in the quarter finals, but their legend will live on. Iceland’s epic ‘viking clap’ celebration caps off a dream summer at … Read more