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Thursday, July 14, 2016

Turkey’s way: “ISIL militant’s jail sentence reduced due to ‘good conduct’ in Turkey [and the militant fled to Syria…

ISIL militant’s jail sentence reduced due to ‘good conduct’ in Turkey

The jail sentence of a militant from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Ahmet Güneş, has been reduced due to “good conduct” in the southeastern province of Gaziantep, despite the fact his trial was conducted in absentia, Doğan News Agency reported on July 11

Syrian refugees in Turkey: The swing from guests to citizens

Over the course of a few days, the Syrians living in Turkey who were refused refugee status for the past five years were promoted from guest status to potential citizen status

Risks and opportunities over Turkish IDs for Syrian refugees

The Interior Ministry is working on the framework of a draft law to provide Turkish citizenship to Syrian refugees, according to Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş, speaking after a cabinet meeting on July 11

Less than one-third of Syrian children in Turkey in formal education

Only 170,000 of 625,000 school-aged Syrian children living in Turkey are receiving formal education at Temporary Education Centers (GEM) inside and outside refugee camps, according to the Education Ministry

Hostility toward Syrians grows after deadly fight in central Turkey

Tensions are running high in the Beyşehir district of Konya, where a young Turkish man and a Syrian man were recently killed in a street fight, as local residents, including the slain Turkish teen’s family, demand the Syrians living in the area leave

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Sunday, July 3, 2016

Funny: “Turkey among initiators of significant UN resolution on Internet and human rights… Cyberculture agenda…

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Turkey among initiators of significant UN resolution on Internet and human rights

Turkey was one of the joint initiators of a significant resolution on “the promotion, protection and enjoyment of human rights on the Internet” which was adopted at the U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC) on July 1.

BitTorrent Protocol Turns 15 Years Old Today

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bittorrent_logo “My new app, BitTorrent, is now in working order, check it out here,” Bram Cohen wrote on a Yahoo! message board on July 2, 2001.

It was the first time a working copy of the BitTorrent code had been made available to the public, but the initial response wasn’t exactly overwhelming.

How Change.org became a legitimate force in Australian politics

Mashable! by Ariel Bogle

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Until recently, politicians could safely ignore clicktivism.

Hacker Lexicon: What Is Full Disk Encryption?

Wired Top Stories by Kim Zetter

The security at the center of everything from the Apple-FBI fight to a sweeping new Android vulnerability.

‘Mic drops and Twitter burns’: welcome to the 2016 US presidential race

open Democracy News Analysis – by Cameron De Chi

Hillary Clinton’s rebuke to Donald Trump, ‘delete your account’, went viral and launched a wave of think-pieces. What does it tell us about the shallowness in American politics right now?

Hillary Clinton stops for a selfie. John Locher / AP/Press Association Images. All rights reserved.For Edward Snowden, politics is “the art of convincing decent people to forget the lesser of two evils is also evil.