How Tech Learned From Past Crises And Reacted To The Paris Attacks What Facebook, Airbnb, and Uber did when terrorists attacked Paris. Brendan Klinkenberg BuzzFeed News Reporter 1. There are a growing number of technology platforms that people around the world depend on each day — a dependency that often becomes much starker in times of … Read more
The Paris attackers hit the city’s young, progressive core fusion.net – Manu Saadia – Nov 13, 6:11 PM Tonight, the golden triangle of Parisian youth culture is covered in blood. We do not yet know the full extent of the terrorist attacks in Paris that started Friday night, or even how many attacks there were. … Read more
This photo was released officially after Erdoğan’s talk with Obama before the G -20 Summit. The photo with what it contains and with what not contains gives out much to think about. Among the many possible many symbols, we see that a symbolic ‘Rabia’ sculpture on the left is particularly focused. The photo does not contain a … Read more
First video made entirely of emojis: Don’t Emoji and Drive Osocio Weblog by Marc van Gurp Emojis are very popular on our smartphones and it also inspires a lot of creative people around the world for a variety of purposes. Drones, IBM, and the Big Data of Death The Intercept by Jon Schwarz LAST WEEKThe Intercept published a package of … Read more
Poland’s Successful Losers Project Syndicate by Jacek Rostowski How can a government with the best economic record in Europe be humiliated at the polls by a Euroskeptic, nationalistic, and economically illiterate opposition – one deemed unelectable only a year ago? That is the question many Poles, and friends of Poland, are now asking, following the defeat … Read more
Final Report: Task Force on AAA Engagement on Israel-Palestine American Anthropological Association by Anne Kelsey Read the full report. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Recent years have seen increasing pressure in the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and many other professional academic associations to discuss alleged Israeli violations of academic freedom and human rights, and to move toward sanctioning Israel. … Read more
Google to donate up to $5.5M to help European refugees Google’s charitable arm is pledging to donate an additional $5.5 million to groups trying to help the thousands of refugees pouring into Europe Refugees Met with Generosity and Suspicion in France Global Voices Online by Gaetana DiRoberto Demonstrations in large European cities in favor of refugees … 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
France outcry over school skirt ban BBC News | Europe | World Edition France faces a fresh backlash against its ban on religious signs in schools after a 15-year-old Muslim girl is sent home for wearing a long black skirt. Charlie artist ends Muhammad cartoons BBC News | Europe | World Edition Charlie Hebdo artist “Luz”, who … Read more
‘Replica Mecca’ in Istanbul raises eyebrows Hurriyet Daily News A district mayor in Istanbul from Turkey’s ruling AKP has raised eyebrows by constructing replicas of Islam’s holiest places and objects, yet the building idea seems to have spread elsewhere Concert in memory of Armenian intellectuals Anatolian Culture and Kalan Music have collaborated to organize a concert … Read more
Turkish university students demand Jedi, Buddhist temples amid mosque frenzy Thousands of Turkish students have raised their voices in online campaigns to build Jedi and Buddhist temples at their universities, after a series of mosques were constructed on their campuses by rectors who stressed “huge demand.” Boycott Call After Death of Rebuked Teacher Halil Serkan Öz Bianet … Read more
An EU-Turkey Reset Project Syndicate by Martti Ahtisaari, et al. Never have the European Union and Turkey needed one another more, and yet rarely have they been so distant. The EU should redouble its efforts to revitalize the relationship, strengthening both its criticism of Turkey’s democratic backsliding and the credibility of the accession process. Turkey and EU … Read more
No agreement in Greek eurozone talks BBC News | Europe | World Edition Greek and eurozone officials have left a seven-hour meeting without even basic agreement on how to proceed in talks over the country’s debt crisis. Greek debt talks fail, next meeting on Monday EurActiv.com Greece’s new leftist government and its international creditors failed to … Read more
Turkish President Erdoğan says UK is semi-presidency dominated by Queen In a bid to justify his support for a change to the political system in Turkey, President Erdoğan has suggested that the United Kingdom is run as a semi-presidential system in which the will of the Queen is dominant. Turkey’s Erdogan says he’s no sultan — but … Read more
Zuckerberg’s free-speech rhetoric proves empty as Facebook censors Charlie … International Business Times UK “In comparison with Twitter and YouTube, Facebook cooperates with the Turkish authorities much better,” Yaman Akdeniz, a professor in cyberlaw at Bilgi University in Istambul, told the New York Times. “Therefore it’s not surprising that Facebook . Facebook Caves to Turkish Government … Read more