EFDbackup: August 2017

Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Hasankeyf is an ancient town and district located along the Tigris River in the Batman Province in southeastern Turkey. It was declared a natural conservation….

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Antik kentin kale kanyonunda tarihi mağaralar kuyular ve gizli geçitlere ev sahipliği yapan kayalar, dinamitlerle havaya uçuruldu #Hasankeyf http://pic.twitter.com/TelQFSFSKg

— <img src="http://ift.tt/2smFZdG" alt="” class=”wp-smiley” style=”height: 1em; max-height: 1em;” />Kahve Bahçesi ☕ (@Kahve_Bahcesi) 14 Ağustos 2017

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Dozens of people arrested for wearing “hero” T-shirts in Turkey

Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder

Gökhan Güçlü is on trial in Turkey for participating in the failed coup against the Erdoğan regime last year. In July, Güçlü made authorities angry when he wore a T-shirt with the word “hero.” Now, Turkey has made it a crime to wear similar T-shirts.

At “least 35 people have been arrested for wearing “hero” t-shirts in the last month,” reports the Turkey Purge website.

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Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Lunar eclipse in İstanbul…

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Nothing much in Istanbul in the midst of a heatwave…

Heat waves, droughts and heavy rain are Istanbul’s ‘new normal’

Heavy rainfall, which caused flash floods in Istanbul twice in one week last month, are the ‘new normal,’ according to a leading Turkish climate change scholar. ‘Heavy rain with the intensity getting higher and higher is the new normal from now on,’ Professor Levent Kurnaz tells the Hürriyet Daily News

Not Even a Bloody Political Coup Could Stop the Istanbul Jazz Festival

Digital Music News

In 2016, a failed political coup almost put an end to the Istanbul Jazz Festival. This year, more than 20,000 people attended the event.

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