Life in Turkey (roundup): “Turkey ranks 55th ‘best place to be a girl’”

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Turkey ranks 55th ‘best place to be a girl’

Turkey has ranked 55th out of 144 countries in a new study on the well-being of girls in 144 countries around the world, with lack of women’s public representation being the most pressing issue the country faces, followed by child marriage.

INTERVIEW: Özge Samancı on ‘Dare to Disappoint: Growing up in Turkey’

Ahead of its appearance in Turkish, graphic novelist Özge Samancı speaks to the Hürriyet Daily News about her book ‘Dare to Disappoint: Growing up in Turkey’

Academic highlights high prostitution figures in Turkey’s $4 billion industry

The number of people engaged in prostitution in Turkey is estimated to be over 100,000, with an annual market value of around $4 billion, according to Professor Ayşegül Akbay, a public health expert at Ankara University.

Turkish Village Preserves “Bird Language” in a Cell-Phone World

Global Voices Online by EurasiaNet.org

Kuşköy local. Screenshot taken from Eurasianet video.

The following is a photo and audio partner post from EurasiaNet.org written by Alexander Christie-Miller. Republished with permission. Follow link for photo and audio. 

Green Road Construction Restarts, 11 Life Defenders Detained

 Bianet :: English

Following the announcement that the Green Road construction has begun at Yukarı Kavron, 11 of the life defenders going to the area have been taken into custody in Rize.

Github, OneDrive, Dropbox Blocked In Turkey To Kill Email Leaks
ValueWalk
Turkey is notoriously known for blocking Internet services, with an aim of controlling what citizens can read about its government online. A few months ago, the country blocked WikiLeaks after a leak of emails from Turkey’s ruling political party. Then …
Google Drive, Dropbox, Github Blocked in TurkeyiTech Post
Turkey reportedly blocks Google Drive, Dropbox, GitHubThe Next Web

Interview: RedHack, the Hacktivists Who Forced Turkey to Censor the Cloud
The Daily Dot
In their 20 years of operation, the hacktivist group RedHack has pulled off many high-profile breaches, such as leaking documents from Turkish National Police, penetrating the Turkish army’s Commando Brigade, wiping out electricity bills in protest of

 

Turkey reportedly blocks Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive and GitHub to stop email leaks

 The Next Web by Abhimanyu Ghoshal

Turkey reportedly blocked cloud storage services including Google Drive, Dropbox and Microsoft’s OneDrive, as well as code hosting service GitHub on Saturday, according to Turkey Blocks. The government is believed to have done so in a bid to suppress the leak of emails belonging to the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Berat Albayrak, who is the son-in-law of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The move to block these services, reported by censorship monitoring group Turkey Blocks, is likely a means to stop people from hosting the email dumps on their accounts and making it more widely available. The 17GB leak,…

40,000 denounced to police as Gülenists in Ankara

Some 40,000 people in total have been denounced to police in Ankara as followers of the U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen since the failed coup attempt of July 15

Turkish parliament approves extension of state of emergency

The Turkish parliament has approved Oct. 11 the extension of the state of emergency by three months, which was decided after the July 15 failed coup attempt

Imam Whose Son Was Arrested in FETÖ Investigation Commits Suicide

Bianet :: English

Imam Hasan Taştan, who reportedly has went into a depression upon his teacher son getting arrested as a part of the FETÖ investigation, has committed suicide.

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1. EFD Rights Watch: “Child bride” issue as vital as always… Not surprisingly Press Freedom Upside Down…
2. Withholding @fuatavni account might actually mean for @Twitter to bow down to Turkish government…
3. Babacan now chastised by Ağaoğlu…. US Department of State gives support to Çarşı fan group…
4. Turkish conservative social engineering: Building more prisons; Freeing headscarf for students, banning make-up, tattoos and piercings
5. The spectre of #BerkinElvan is haunting the AKP rule. Police threatening with machine guns!

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