Iran has significantly degraded Starlink’s effectiveness inside Iran for now, but it has not “killed” or permanently broken the system as a whole. Starlink still works globally and remains intermittently usable in parts of Iran despite heavy interference.[aljazeera] What Iran actually did Iranian authorities deployed powerful ground-based jammers (reportedly including Russian-made systems) that interfere with … Read more
I guess there is no doubt about the state of human rights in Iran. However, I am increasingly irritated with the fact that relatively reliable international media outlets, which we frequently cite as good examples of journalism, have explicitly become instruments of war-making. I hope Iranian citizens will have better days to witness. In the … Read more
I do not believe that there will be a World War III. Iran looks weaker than widely believed. Let’s see how this goes. I suppose Devlet Bahçeli’s claim that “Turkey is next” is the most intriguing one. In the meantime, I asked Perplexity to curate the Turkish positions. Turkish Public Opinion on Israel’s Attack on … Read more
Status Change Explanation: Turkey’s status declined from Partly Free to Not Free, its political rights rating declined from 4 to 5, and its civil liberties rating declines from 5 to 6 due to a deeply flawed constitutional referendum that centralized power in the presidency, the mass replacement of elected mayors with government appointees, arbitrary prosecutions … Read more
Pro-Kurdish footballer Deniz Naki shot at on German motorway World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Agence France-Presse in Berlin German-Turkish player, sentenced last year by Turkish court for terrorist propaganda, unharmed after his car came under fire German prosecutors have opened an attempted murder investigation after a German-Turkish football player known for his pro-Kurdish views was fired … Read more
Professor İştar Gözaydın Arrested Bianet :: English Professor İştar Gözaydın has been arrested on the 8th day of her being detained as part of the “FETÖ/PDY Investigation” launched into Gediz University from which she was suspended. In other upsetting news: Vice PM Kurtulmuş: Some Fellows in Media Shall Mind Their Steps Bianet :: English Vice … Read more
Turkey entered Syria to end al-Assad’s rule: President Erdoğan President Erdoğan admits that Turkey crossed into Syria to get rid of President Bashar al-Assad having previously highlighted the fight against ISIL Erdoğan’s remarks on Turkish operation ‘to end al-Assad rule’ to be discussed during Lavrov visit President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s recent assertion that the Turkish military operation … 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
How SMART News Agency is telling stories from Syria in virtual reality Journalism.co.uk ‘We are doing VR also for credibility, because you let the viewer be the witness inside Syria’ Inside Infomagical, Note to Self’s crowdsourcing project to find out how people deal with information overload Journalism.co.uk Using audio, voicemails and texts, Infomagical is a five-day experiment … Read more
The Guardian view on the EU refugee deal: Greece has Europe’s reputation in its hands | Editorial World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk Deporting migrants could be a human rights catastrophe. Officials must tread with the greatest careThe crunch has arrived. After a vote by Greek MPs, Monday sees the start of the implementation of last month’s … Read more
Ecuador Slams Erdogan Guards for Attack on Pro-Kurdish Protest teleSUR English–14 hours ago Ecuador’s foreign minister said the attack by the Turkish president’s security guards on the protest was irresponsible and against free speech Protesters interrupt Turkish President Erdoğan’s speech in Ecuador Today’s Zaman–Feb 5, 2016 A group of protesters has interrupted a speech by … Read more
After Executing Regime Critic, Saudi Arabia Fires Up American PR Machine The Intercept by Lee Fang Saudi Arabia’s well-funded public relations apparatus moved quickly after Saturday’s explosive execution of Shiite political dissident Nimr al-Nimr to shape how the news is covered in the United States. The execution led protestors in Shiite-run Iran to set fire to the Saudi Embassy in … Read more
An unhappy New Year for Turkey’s exporters to Russia AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (IN DEPTH) Moscow’s sanctions, which officially take effect on January 1, come in response to Turkey’s downing of a Russian jet. ‘Recreation of playing cards’: Seymour Hersh on conflicting pursuits in Syria The Times (subscription) Turkey “co-opted” the US program “to arm and support … Read more
Countries differ in support for press freedom, especially for reporting on national security 11 A new Pew report finds that beliefs in the freedom of the press vary substantially by country, with support for both free speech and a free press “contingent on the topic.” In general, while “large majorities across the globe” believe that the … Read more
How Instagram Solved Its Justin Bieber Problem Wired Top Stories by Cade Metz Back in the day, Bieber pics would receive so many “Likes” that they’d crash Instagram. Here’s how they fixed it. Inside the Aaron Swartz Day hackathon Newsweek Columnists: Christopher Dickey by Seung Lee Golden light flooded the room through the tall, stained windows all … Read more