Turks are top users of mobile phones in Europe [BUT of course due to internet censorship even access to social media is a problem…

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Turks are top users of mobile phones in Europe with calls at an average of 7 hours a month: Survey

Hurriyet Daily News

 

Turks have ranked first in Europe in the third quarter of 2016 in mobile phone usage, with phone calls at an average of seven hours and 16 minutes (436 minutes) per month

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For a few more votes for the presidency… “Syrians in Turkey could become citizens: Erdoğan”

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Syrians in Turkey could become citizens: Erdoğan

Millions of Syrians living in Turkey will have a chance to become Turkish citizens, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on July 2

But the reaction was mostly racist. Turkey’s new kind of racism brewing…: 

Turkish Twitter users criticize Syrian citizenship proposal as hashtag becomes TT

The hashtag #ÜlkemdeSuriyeliİstemiyorum (I don’t want Syrians in my country) hit the worldwide Twitter trending topic list on July 3, as Turkish social media users slammed President Erdoğan’s suggestion that millions of Syrians living in the country would have a chance to become Turkish citizens

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Basic ID information of 50 M Turkish citizens are out there and the minister says it is an “old story”

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The hack seemed to have happened by 2009. However, since we do not change our birth place, or father name or ID number, the data is still valid and thus causing anxiety. Even the minister’s personal data is out there. I checked mine. It is there, too:(

[2016/04/06] 12. thanksgiving.epicm.org is now down:

but the mirror works: 

Turkish minister calls massive data leak report an ‘old story’

Turkey’s communications minister has denied reports of a massive data leak containing the personal information of nearly 50 million Turkish citizens, saying the leak was an “old story” from 2010, as allegations triggered concerns over personal data protection

Hack Brief: Turkey Breach Spills Info on More Than Half Its Citizens

Wired Top Stories by Andy Greenberg

Though the database is from 2008, privacy activists say it still represents a serious exposure of sensitive information for most of the nation.

Data of nearly 50 million Turks allegedly leaked online

Hackers have posted a database online that seems to contain the personal information of nearly 50 million Turkish citizens in what is one of the largest public leaks of its kind

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New photo from Facebook February 06, 2016 at 03:49PM

Bern, İsviçre. via Reddit. via Facebook Pages http://ift.tt/1heKubC

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