May Day in Turkey no longer worker’s, but policeman?s holiday: Human Rights Watch For the second year running, thousands who gathered in the districts of Beşiktaş and Şişli to march toward Taksim Square ere dispersed with tear gas and water cannons Journalists in Turkey freer than all countries listed in Freedom House report: FM … Read more
Tragedy and Confusion in Odessa Global Voices Online by Andrey Tselikov The besieged Odessa Union building. A Molotov cocktail has just exploded in the top right corner of the frame. Dozens died in the ensuing fire. YouTube screenshot. Tense standoff continues in eastern Ukraine AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (IN DEPTH) Pro-Russian activists in the village of Yasnohirka … Read more
How an Oral History Project Got the Head of Sinn Fein Arrested FP Passport by Thomas Stackpole Try our new time machine, see what’schanged since first EU elections in 1979http://www.europarl.europa.eu/ep_products/infographics/timemachine/index_en.html ? Adams ‘quizzed for 17 hours a day’ BBC News | Europe | World Edition Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams is being questioned for up to … Read more
Free Online: Meet John Doe, Frank Capra?s Inspiring 1941 Classic Open Culture by Dan Colman In 2006, a jury of 1,500 filmmakers, actors, actresses, critics and historians created a list of the 100 Most Inspiring Films of All Time. It?s a Wonderful Life, Frank Capra?s 1946 30 Errol Morris Movies That Can Be Streamed Online Open Culture by Dan Colman Why … Read more
En büyük oyuncağım olan Erkan’s Field Diary 10. yılına girerken, başka bir oyuncağım olan SosyalKafa’nın da 3. sezonunu geride bıraktık. Doğan TV’nin bir web televizyonu projesi olan Netd.Com Haziran 2014 ortalarında kendi platformlarında devam etmemizi önermiş, biz de kabul etmiştik. BJK TV’den olaylı bir şekilde ayrıldıktan sonra, nerede devam edeceğimiz belli değildi. Aslında devam etmesi de zorunlu değildi. … Read more
Let me briefly sum up what I have written in Turkish. I was invited to a meeting today with the Twitter team that visits Turkey and holds government-level talks. It looks like pro-AKP media continued to create misinformation… * No Twitter office to be opened in Turkey soon. Decision to open an office is based … Read more
Thus, it is not only my birthday but also the birthday of Internet in Turkey;) But not a happy one with more than 40 thousand sites blocked, Twitter etc ban… photo via RT Opinion?@rtopinion Internet Week activities in Turkey can be found here. In the mean time: Turkey PM threatens to ‘go after’ Twitter for tax … Read more
BTK Insists on YouTube Ban Bianet :: English Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK) stated that YouTube ban must continue.Telecommunication lawyer Gökhan Ahi said that BTK insisted on YouTube ban arbitrarily despite the court verdict. AKP deputy applies to Constitutional Court for blocking Twitter Hurriyet Daily News Turkish Parliament Constitution Commission?s head Burhan Kuzu applied … Read more
Turkey’s Higher Election Board rejects CHP?s appeal in Ankara Hurriyet Daily News The CHP’s appeal to cancel the results of the contested local election has been rejected Debate mounts over attack on CHP leader Hurriyet Daily News The fallout from the assault on the main opposition CHP leader Kılıçdaroğlu continues, with the opposition asking whether … Read more
YouTube files complaint to Turkish Constitutional Court Hurriyet Daily News YouTube has filed an individual complaint to the Turkish Constitutional Court against the ongoing ban through its lawyer Turkey?s image hurt by graft claims: US envoy The US top diplomat in Turkey issues a veiled rebuke of the Turkish government for its recent censorship of Twitter … Read more
Opening Lines of 25 Famous Novels Dissected to Make an Awesome Poster Wired Top Stories Remember sentence diagramming? Turns out, it makes an awfully cool poster. Watch a ?Lost Interview? With Michel Foucault: Missing for 30 Years But Now Recovered Open Culture by Josh Jones An introductory shot that might be … Read more
#Hijacking of public #DNS servers in #Turkey, through #routing – Blog Stéphane Bortzmeyer Turkish court lifts YouTube ban Hurriyet Daily News A local court lifted a ban on the popular video-sharing website YouTube on April 4 We have to implement it, but we don’t have to respect it,? Turkish PM says on Twitter ruling Hurriyet … Read more
Turkey blocks access to YouTube after leak recordings of key security meeting Hurriyet Daily News Less than a week after a notorious ban on Twitter went into effect, the Turkish government blocked access to YouTube YouTube access blocked in Turkey BBC News | Europe | World Edition Turkey blocks access to YouTube, a day after a court … Read more
@LatuffCartoons http://t.co/zRQZ0z0Pzr (https://twitter.com/kivanceliacik/status/447345356234571776) uzaymekiği tamircisi (@_exclusive_____) saat +9:43 AM on Cmt, Mar 22, 2014 gibi tweetledi: Bütün dünya Duble yolları konuşuyor http://t.co/bDmIlnmc6a (https://twitter.com/_exclusive_____/status/447277269208145920) CK (@cngzkync) saat +11:08 AM on Cmt, Mar 22, 2014 gibi tweetledi: Yine hortladı…kuş gribi http://t.co/HaFt84kObF (https://twitter.com/cngzkync/status/447298792723730432) Turkish tweeps fight Erdogan with memes Storified by The Stream Following a ban on Twitter, Turks defied government ruling to send a reported … Read more
It?s Not Twitter It?s The Eclipse Of Reason Twitter has become a basic communication tool for the users in Turkey to exercise freedom of speech. The President, The Prime Minister and the commissioners, journalists, bureaucrats, members of the parliament, writers, artists, unionists and activists, people with different political ideologies, oppressed groups and people from different parts of … Read more