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Friday, August 12, 2016

New photo from Facebook August 12, 2016 at 10:25PM

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New photo from Facebook August 12, 2016 at 06:05PM

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“Too much democracy” as a political party’s office raided gangsta style and Turkey becomes the world leader in imprisoned journalists…

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Last night at 3 a.m. police raids were launched at the HDP İstanbul Provincial Organization building and 10 district buildings. 15 HDP members have been detained.

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Kağıthane municipality gave a certificate for those who attended the “democracy watch” events:

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The witchhunt launched in the wake of the 15 July coup attempt in Turkey continues to take a heavy toll on journalists. In the draconian state of emergency imposed after the abortive coup, the authorities have closed more than 100 media outlets

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Jussi Parikka: “Earwitnesses of a Coup Night: The Many Media Infrastructures of Social Action”

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Earwitnesses of a Coup Night: The Many Media Infrastructures of Social Action

The particularly cruel scenes in Ankara and Istanbul from July 15th and 16th circulated quickly. From eye witness accounts to images detached from their context, media users, viewers and readers was soon seeing the graphic depictions of what had happened with the added gory details, some of them fake, some of them not.

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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Aug. 10 gave the U.S. an ultimatum following Ankara’s repeated requests for the extradition of U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen
At a meeting in Saint Petersburg Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan have declared that their dispute after the shooting down of a Russian fighter jet last autumn is over. Commentators discuss whether the newly-formed alliance can achieve independence from the West.
Human rights and the failed coup in Turkey

There are risks for human rights in the post-coup purges in Turkey. But we must applaud more loudly the coup’s failure as a victory for human rights and democracy. Türkçe

This generation’s autocrats are betraying their paranoia and insecurity.
Turkish Interior Minister Efkan Ala has said that some 76,000 civil servants have been suspended since the July 15 failed coup attempt, believed to have been masterminded by the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ).

NBA star Enes Kanter cuts ties with family over Gulen

An American basketball player cuts ties with his Turkish family over his support for Pennsylvania-based preacher Fethullah Gulen.
A Turkish military officer posted with Nato claims asylum in the US after authorities in Turkey link him to the failed coup, reports say.
In one of my visits to Brussels in 2011, I had gone to the NATO headquarters and witnessed a Turkish diplomat saluting members of the Albanian delegation in Turkish. I was told that they were graduates of Fethullah Gülen schools in Albania

Isn’t Turkey of interest to Europe?

European and Turkish leaders damaged relations between their countries following the near-coup in Turkey last month—and there are too many important policy issues at stake, writes Samuel Doveri Vesterbye.
The United States would sacrifice Turkey for the sake of a terrorist if it does not extradite U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ has said
The European Union has expressed “regret” over Turkish authorities’ decision to cancel the Jean Monnet Scholarship Programme (JMSP) for the 2016-17academic year, underlining that the decision by the Turkish authorities was made without their involvement

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Wednesday, August 12, 2015

New photo from Facebook August 12, 2015 at 11:08PM

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New photo from Facebook August 12, 2015 at 06:50PM

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Lies… lies… ” U.S. denies reaching agreement with Turkey on Syria ‘safe zone’

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 U.S. denies reaching agreement with Turkey on Syria ‘safe zone’
Hurriyet Daily News
The U.S. State Department denied there was an agreement between Washington and Ankara on terms for a “safe zone” inside northern Syria where the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants would be …
US denies report of agreement with Turkey over Syrian ‘safe zone’Middle East Eye
The U.S. State Department denied there was an agreement between Washington and Ankara on terms for a “safe zone” inside northern Syria where the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants would be kept out
A senior leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) said peace negotiations were the “only choice” for an end to the Kurdish problem, in an interview on Aug. 11.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has blamed the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), which he said was being controlled by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), for attempting to hamper Turkey’s growth with its stance targeting his aspirations for an unencumbered presidential system
The outlawed far-left Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) group aims to destabilize Turkey by targeting the country’s key institutions and carrying out assassinations of top officials, Turkish security sources have said
Although the leaders of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Republican People’s Party (CHP) failed to produce a breakthrough on a coalition agreement at their Aug. 10 meeting, they made progress on content
A senior Hamas leader is set to arrive in Turkey for a meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, amid a flurry of regional contacts made by Hamas that has particularly intensified after the recent nuclear deal between Iran and Western powers
Alevi organizations have issued a joint press statement after the threatening recent “X” marking of a number of Alevi homes in Istanbul’s Üsküdar district, saying “a country where Alevis are threatened will be safe for no one.”




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Twitter’s new Transparency Report: Turkey is unashamedly the worst offender… -Cyberculture agenda

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Twitter is getting more serious about its biannual transparency reports. The company today announced it’s expanding its reports’ scope with two new sections: trademark notices and the email privacy practices of several providers. It’s also rolling out a redesign for its transparency hub, making it a bit easier on the eyes on mobile and simplifying access to reports for individual countries. As for the most recent report itself, there are no huge surprises.
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Governments want your data now more than ever

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Julian Assange, known primarily for releasing a huge cache of politically sensitive information back in 2010, has been holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy for nearly five years for fear of being extradited to the US. During that same period, Assange has also been subject to claims of four sexual offences from women in Sweden. Under the country’s laws the allegations will expire within a week, meaning he’s about to be cleared of three of the four allegations, according to The Times. However, the final claim – one of rape – is not set to expire for another five years, so if it’s upheld, Assange…
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For years, Google’s unofficial motto – “Don’t be evil.” – has been picked at like a scab that will never heal. I don’t believe Google or the new expansive Alphabet umbrella company are places where ‘evil’ people gather, but even collections of relatively good people can end up producing very bad things. Here’s the alternative alphabet that covers that… Warning: Contains satire. A is for AI Artificial Intelligence (AI) could solve humanity’s problems. AI research could lead to wonderful things. It could also lead to our ultimate annihilation. Google had its metal fingers in a huge number of AI projects,…
Old people say “LOL” on Facebook
hifellowkidsTo appear young, use Emoji. We already knew that haha and hehe are indicators of age, but according to Facebook, lol is oldest of them all, spoken mostly by the truly decrepit: people over 25.
Google Announces It’s All Grown-Up With Alphabet’s New Logo
Google Announces It’s All Grown-Up With Alphabet’s New Logo

Alphabet’s visual identity plays a vital role helping people understand the differences between the two companies.

Hossein Moiin: Rise of the Machines Intelligence

We might be years away from the debut of emotional robots and a self-driving car in every garage, but AI-driven behavior by machines is already enabling profound changes across industries. And in telecom, AI is gaining traction in ways that are invisible to consumers, but that have big implications for enterprise. Nokia, the Finland-based technology […]

Sundar Pichai Just Inherited the Most High-Pressure Job at Alphabet

As CEO of the new Google, Sundar Pichai must create the equivalent of a new Whole Foods every year.

Supercut of 80s movies’ computer hacking

A phone slams into an acoustic coupler on the desk. Screeching beeping sounds. Two people sitting side-by-side in front of a computer. One is a socially awkward nerd. The other is cooler, but dumber.

The nerd types something really fast on the keyboard. A rotating Necker cube appears on the green monochrome monitor. SECTOR-INFILTRATE SEQUENCE INITIATED. We see rapidly scrolling strings of hexadecimals reflected in the nerd’s wireframe glasses.

YES!

“YES! We’re in.”




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