Trailer of “Cennetin Düşüşü” Documentary Police brutality during #OccupyGezi

The documentary is expected to be released on March 2014…   Haziran 2013’te Gezi Parkı’nda başlayıp tüm Türkiye’ye yayılan Gezi Direnişi’ni anlatan Cennetin Düşüşü Mart 2014’te izleyicisiyle buluşacak. Adalet vurgusunu öne çıkaracak Cennetin Düşüşü belgeselini, Asi Ruh ve Hile Yolu’nun da yönetmenliğini üstlenen Ersin Kana Yönetiyor. Belgeselin yapımcıları arasında Avukat Efkan Bolaç da var. Cennet’in … Read more

EFD Rights Watch: Probable justice bastardization: “Turkey charges 255 over mass Gezi Park protests

  Turkey charges 255 over mass Gezi Park protests Turkish prosecutors charge 255 protesters, including seven foreigners, over the mass demonstrations that swept the country in June   Gezi Case Opens in Kayseri 161 defendants stood trial first time in the central province of Kayseri for charges related to attending Gezi Resistance protests.   Government … Read more

EFD Seçim Günlüğü- Hangi cemaat hangi partiye oy verecek…

seçim günlüğü Adaylar   MHP’nin İstanbul adayı Rasim Acar da Gezi’ciymiş: Gaz sıkanların… Radikal MHP’nin İstanbul Belediye Başkan Adayı Rasim Acar, twitter’da Gezi eylemlerine destek veren bir Çarşı hayranı çıktı! MHP’nin İstanbul adayı Rasim Acar, Gezi’ciymiş. Radikal.com.tr – Siyasette yeni belirleyici haline gelen ‘Gezi Parkı etkisi’ MHP ‘de de . CHP aday adaylarına mesaj gönderdi Cafe Siyaset Haber Sitesi CHP aday adaylarına … Read more

Eurosphere agenda: “Renzi wins Italian centre-left leadership…”Escalating protests in Ukraine… “How Internet Tools Turned Ukraine’s #Euromaidan Protests Into a Movement

Renzi wins Italian centre-left leadership     Florence Mayor Matteo Renzi won a primary vote to become leader of Italy’s centre-left Democratic Party (PD), preliminary results showed on Sunday (8 December), giving him influence over the fragile coalition government and the timing of the next elections. Please, Mr. Renzi, debunk this Europe   Primary elections held yesterday … Read more

A critical provocation in Gever, Yüksekova, Hakkari…

2 Kurdish protesters shot dead in Gever, Yüksekova, Hakkari by special forces. Let’s see how this murder is handled by government… Later, the hospital was pepper-gassed and attacked by special police forces who wanted to get the bodies of protesters….. BDP, HDP express indignation over protesters? death in Yüksekova Both the BDP and its recently founded … Read more

EFD Rights Watch: PM Erdoğan accuses Taraf reporter of ?treason? over leak story….

Turkish PM Erdoğan accuses Taraf reporter of ?treason? over leak story   ‘Revealing state privacy is not called freedom, it is sheer treason,’ PM Erdoğan said, slamming Mehmet Baransu for publishing a document from a National Security Council meeting ************** Hate crime narrowly defined in Turkey’s democratization package Turkey?s much-waited ?democratization package? contains a ?narrow? … Read more

Eurosphere agenda: “EU imposes record fine on major banks…

  MAIN FOCUS: EU imposes record fine on major banks | 05/12/2013   In the scandal over the manipulation of international interest rates, the European Commission has imposed a record fine. Six major banks are to pay a total of 1.7 billion euros, EU Competition Commissioner Joaquín Almunia announced on Wednesday in Brussels. Commentators welcome … Read more

Ukraine’s Black Saturday… #Euromaidan protests continue…

  Ukraine’s Black Saturday Yesterday was Black Friday in the west ? people out shopping; in Ukraine, today will be remembered as Black Saturday ? people running for their lives. Have the Ukrainians been shopped by the Europeans? Ukraine: Understanding the #Euromaidan Protests It may seem to many that the #Euromaidan protests in Ukraine grew out … Read more

In the mean time in Europe: #euromaidan protests in Ukraine…

  From a #euromaidan in Ukraine   How do we (and Ukrainians) make sense of what is happening in Ukraine? Is the hashtag #euromaidan of any help in understanding the choice being made between the EU and Russia, or yet another symbol of a general failure to understand anything? Truncheon-wielding police break up Ukraine pro-EU rally, injuring … Read more

Ayşe Özer: Çıplak Devlet

ÇIPLAK DEVLET Eflatun abimizin (bu adamcağıza da daha uygun bir isim bulsak ya) Devlet isimli kitabının kapağında görmüştüm ilkin, çıplak bir Yunan büstüydü devlet. Cinsel organının üstüne mermerden bir örtü serilmişti. O an anlamamıştım tabii, sonradan kendisiyle karşılaşınca anladım ki devlet erkekti. Öyle Yunan büstleri kadar terbiyeli filan da değildi. Bildiğin anadan üryan dolaşıyordu ortalıkta. … Read more

While Erdoğan cried for Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood in Trabzon, Turkish police in Ankara was attacking Teachers’ Union members…

  Woman sustains cerebral trauma in police crackdown on Teachers? Day protest march Hundreds of teachers have faced a police crackdown as they joined a march in Ankara to protest the government?s policies on education on Teachers? Day   Police stage crackdown on Teachers? Day protest march in Ankara   Hundreds of teachers have faced … Read more

Cultural Anthropology Special Focus on #OccupyGezi, also shows media related limitations of Turkish anthropologists…

Just heard that the latest issue of Cultural Anthropology has a special focus: Gezi Protests. That will definitely be a good scholarly and ethnographic source on the subject. But check out the contents below. Not one specific article you will find on new media usage, which was obviously an essential part of Protests. Unfortunately, (mass) … Read more

EFD Rights Watch: Police attacked demonstrators for the hearing of Ethem Sarısülük #EthemSeniCağırıyor

  Tear Gas in the Courthouse Police intervened demonstrators who gathered outside Ankara courthouse to follow the hearing of Ethem Sarısülük, a Gezi Resistance protestor allegedly killed by police violence. The suspect police officer didn?t attend the hearing. Court decision triggers tensions at trial of slain Gezi protester?s murder in Ankara Police intervened at the … Read more

Serhatcan Yurdam (@syurdam): ODTÜ’de polis müdahalesi #DirenODTÜ

ODTÜ’de polis müdahalesi   ODTÜ’de yapılan doğa katliamını protesto etmek icin yapılan yürüyüşe polis biber gazı ve tazyikli suyla müdahale etti. @140Journos ve @AgenceLeJournal eylemden anlık bildirdi. Derlemeyi buradan takip edebilirsiniz.   fotoğraf: @140journos [View the story “ODTÜ’deki yürüyüşe polis müdahalesi” on Storify]

EFD Rights Watch: “ODTÜ shows no lesson learned: EU?s envoy”…

ODTÜ shows no lesson learned: EU?s envoy The debate over a controversial road construction on the ODTÜ’s land shows that ‘some people have not learned their lessons,’ according to EU Ambassador to Turkey This guy with the bat is claimed to be sent by Ankara Municipality. via @EratalaySevinc Main opposition CHP reveals report on jailed … Read more