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Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Eurosphere agenda: Refugee crisis growing daily…

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MAIN FOCUS: Dozens of refugees suffocate in lorry | 28/08/2015

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The Austrian police on Thursday discovered the bodies of more than 70 refugees in a truck abandoned on the hard shoulder of a motorway. Minister of the Interior Johanna Mikl-Leitner has said asylum seekers with a chance of being allowed to stay should be permitted to enter the EU legally. Such a move would deprive traffickers of their means of sustenance, commentators write in approval, and urge people to try and see things from the refugees’ perspective.

Migrant trains reach Munich station

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

Trains carrying more than 1,000 migrants arrive in Germany, as Hungary closes a major rail station in an attempt to bring the crisis under control.

Greece’s coastguard rescues 2,500 migrants in 3 days

EurActiv.com

Greece’s coastguard has rescued about 2,500 migrants and refugees off the country’s eastern islands over the past three days, authorities said yesterday (31 August), as the flow of people trying to cross into Europe continued unabated.

VIDEO: Crowds as Budapest station shuts

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

Authorities closed the main international railway station in Budapest after around 500 migrants tried to board a train to Vienna.

VIDEO: ‘Refugees should be divided across EU’

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

Angela Merkel says the EU needs a “unified European migration policy”, and that refugees should be fairly divided.

Migrants barred from Hungary station

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

Hundreds of migrants protest outside a major railway station in Budapest after police seal off the terminal to stop them travelling through the EU.

EU officials exposed in Ashley Madison hack

EurActiv.com

EXCLUSIVE: European Union officials used their work email addresses to register with online adultery site Ashley Madison, EurActiv can reveal.

MAIN FOCUS: Merkel visits refugee accommodation | 27/08/2015

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Angela Merkel visited a refugee shelter in Heidenau on Wednesday, the first time she has made a such a visit. While there she condemned violence against those seeking asylum as “repulsive and a source of shame”. Shortly before the visit Berlin had suspended the Dublin agreement for Syrians, which means they will no longer be returned to the EU country in which they arrived. The German Chancellor has taken the lead in Europe’s refugee policy, some commentators write approvingly. Others wish that appreciation of politicians would extend beyond their commitment to refugees.

VIDEO: With migrants on Hungary’s border

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

With the migrants trying to cross Hungary’s border to get into Europe

Facebook accepts German justice minister’s invitation

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Facebook has reacted to criticism over its tolerance of hate speech on its site. The American social network giant has said it is interested in an “exchange” with Heiko Maas. EurActiv Germany reports.

Greece election set for 20 September

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

Greece’s new caretaker government has been sworn in and snap elections confirmed for 20 September.

NGO: German firms mired in worst Greek corruption scandals since WWII

EurActiv.com

Siemens, Daimler, and Rheinmetall have been mired in cases of alleged corruption in Greece, the country that Berlin has repeatedly admonished for the parlous state of its economy.

More than 70 migrants suffocated to death in Austrian truck tragedy

Mashable! by Blathnaid Healy

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Officials in Austria have said on Friday that 71 bodies were found in the back of a truck near the Hungarian border on Thursday, three people have been arrested. Initial reports had put the death toll at 20.

Catalonia’s regional elections: scenarios for independence

open Democracy News Analysis – by Fernando Betancor

Should the pro-independence parties win a majority in the regional elections on 27 September, what would happen next? Here are a few scenarios on how the independists may use their popular mandate to secede from Spain.

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Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Anthropology roundup: ““Anthropology” in the Snowden Surveillance Archive

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“Anthropology” in the Snowden Surveillance Archive

Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog by Adam Fish

A search for “anthropology” in the Snowden Surveillance Archive results in two hits. Both documents were created and presented by the UK GCHQ’s Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG) which sees anthropology as a method with which to “manipulate and control online discourse with extreme tactics of deception and reputation-destruction.” Take a look at the two GCHQ Powerpoints below and see how the surveillance apparatus views your discipline.

ISIS beheads leading Syrian antiquities scholar in Palmyra

Mashable! by Megan Specia

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A prominent Syrian antiquities scholar was brutally killed and beheaded by Islamic State militants, according to reports from local activists and Syria’s government-run news outlet.

Toward Living with (not Under) Anthropology, Pt. 1

Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog by Matt Thompson

Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Takami Delisle. Tak currently works as a medical interpreter for Japanese patients and helps run an organization for anthropology students of color. You can find her on Twitter @tsd1888 and she also has her own blog. If you’re interested, please contact her.

The social costs of export agriculture in San Quintin, Baja California–An Interview with Christian Zlolniski

…r strikes in the San Quintin Valley that began this past March. Zlolniski is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Mexican American Studies (CMAS) at the University of Texas at Arlington. His research focuses on economic globalization and immigrant labor, with regional emphasis in the US Southwest and Mexico. He is the author of the book Janitors, Street Vendors, and Activists: The Lives of Mexican Immigrants in Silicon Valley (UC Press, 2006) and co-author of De Jo

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Remembering ‘the father of Palmyra,’ the 82-year-old scholar slain by ISIS

Mashable! by Alex Thomson

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LONDON — A good friend and colleague in Syria recalled on Wednesday how he had walked with “the father of Palmyra” among the ruins — ruins that Khaled Asaad had turned into his life’s work.

22. Notes on the second digital ethnography reading session

media/anthropology by John Postill

This is the twenty-second post in the Freedom technologists series.

by Victor Lasa
PhD candidate
RMIT University, Melbourne

In this second session of the monthly Digital Ethnography Reading Group meetings at RMIT we discussed the Introduction and Chapter 5 of Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous. Gabriella Coleman. Brooklyn, NY: Verso Books, 2014. 464 pp.

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Tuesday, June 9, 2015

“Presidential palace should be vacated over election results” #TurkeyElections

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Presidential palace should be vacated over election results, Turkish architects say

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s 1,150-room mega-palace and its residents should immediately be evicted, an architects’ NGO has said in a statement

CNN’s Amanpour interviews ‘the man who took on Erdoğan’

CNN’s Christian Amanpour conducted a live interview with HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş on June 8, following the party’s electoral success, introducing Demirtaş as ‘the man who took on Erdoğan.

He hasn’t been seen for more than a day. Citizens are curious.

Pro-government daily fires columnist after she called Turkish deputy PM a ‘crow’

A columnist at pro-government Turkish daily Sabah has been fired after she called a deputy prime minister a “crow.”

US congratulates Turkish citizens on elections, stresses close cooperation as NATO allies

U.S. State Department spokesperson Jeff Rathke has said Washington is looking forward to working with the new Turkish government and parliament following the June 7 elections, emphasizing that the two countries remain strong allies

Turkey votes – Part II – All shook up – A first assessment of Turkey’s post-election political landscape

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EPC Commentary (European Policy Centre) 8 June 2015 Amanda Paul & Demir Murat Seyrek * After nearly 13 years in power, Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) suffered its first defeat in the 7 June parliamentary elections, failing to win enough seats to continue as a single party government. This result not only ends […]

Turkey ready for multi-voiced politics: HRW

The results of the June 7 parliamentary elections demonstrated the Turkish society is ready for more inclusive and pluralistic politics and it is against further increase of power in the presidential office, according to a written statement published by the Human Rights Watch (HRW) on June 8.

MHP draws lines for coalition with AKP

The Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), which seemed by many to be the most likely partner of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) if the latter attempts to form a coalition government, has drawn its party lines on a potential coalition, without closing the doors to such an engagement

Early polls not an option, coalition must be formed: CHP

Turkish voters have shown the parliament as the right venue for the resolution of all the country’s problems, the main opposition’s leader has said, calling all parties to abandon vicious discussions and not leave Turkey without a government

Coalition government should be preferred to early elections, former president says

Turkey’s former president, Abdullah Gül, said political parties should prefer the option of forming a coalition government over early elections, speaking a day after Turkey’s June 7 elections

Putin congratulates Erdoğan after election, irking Turkish opposition

Russian President Vladimir Putin has called Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to congratulate him on the ruling AKP’s success in the country’s critical June 7 election, which resulted in the AKP winning 40 percent of the votes but laying aside a single party government option.

5 surprising results of Turkey’s election

From seismic vote shifts and unprecedented representation to the curious case of invalid votes, here is the never-before-seen outcome in five points after Turkey’s 2015 election

Turkey’s elections: AKP loses absolute majority, thwarts Erdogan’s bid for executive presidency

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Expert Comment (The Elcano Royal Institute) 40/2015, 8 June 2015 Real Instituto Elcano de Estudios Internacionales y Estratégicos William Chislett * Turkey’s Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP) lost its absolute parliamentary majority for the first time since sweeping to power in 2002, and with it Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ambition for greater power by changing […]

Governing Party Loses Majority in Turkish Vote

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The New York Times (USA) Monday, June 8, 2015, p. A 1 by Tim Arango & Ceylan Yeginsu Istanbul —Turkish voters delivered a rebuke on Sunday to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as his party lost its majority in Parliament in a historic election that thwarted his ambition to rewrite Turkey’s Constitution and further bolster his […]

Turkey election: what happens next?

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Alberto Nardelli

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s AK party has lost its parliamentary majority and its share of the vote has tumbled to its lowest level in 13 years. Here’s what could lie ahead

First Objections against the Election Results

Bianet :: English

HDP made an objection against the election results in one province, AKP in one and MHP in seven provinces.

Only Two Disabled Deputies in Parliament

Bianet :: English

There are at least 9 million disabled people in Turkey. However, there are only two disabled female deputies in parliament.

People showed red card to Erdoğan’s presidential system hopes, Demirtaş tells CNN

Everyone in Turkey is happy with election results that have “closed the door of dictatorship to the president,” Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş told Christiane Amanpour on CNN International on June 8.