The Foreign Ministry has summoned Sweden’s chargé d’affaires in Turkey, upon a claim from Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom that Turkey had legalized sex with underage children
World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Constanze Letsch in Istanbul
Women’s Solidarity Foundation fears new law overlooks root causes of gender violence and warns physical punishment could lead to increased abuse
Women’s rights groups, lawyers and doctorshave condemned Turkey’s decision to introduce a mandatory chemical castration programme for convicted sex offenders, arguing the treatment does not address the underlying reasons for widespread violence against women, and that bodily punishment will instead lead to increased abuse.
Turkey’s Education Ministry has asked educational institutions throughout the country to collect and destroy any books related to the Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ), Turkish news website Duvar reported Aug. 14
Ankara has been campaigning diplomatically since the failed July 15 coup attempt to inform other countries about the activities of U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, who it says was behind the coup plot
At a meeting in Saint Petersburg Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan have declared an end to their dispute after the shooting down of a Russian fighter jet last autumn. Commentators discuss whether the two can overcome their differences in policy over Syria.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu accused the European Union of “humiliating” Ankara, and reiterated his government’s demand for visa-free travel in exchange for stemming the migrant flow, in an interview with a German daily
Turkish singer Sıla Gençoğlu’s concerts in four provinces have been canceled over her remarks on the Aug. 7 democracy rally in Istanbul in the aftermath of the failed coup attempt which she described as a “show.”
The concerts of singer Sıla Gençoğlu who has declared that she would stand by her words criticizing the Democracy and Martyrs Rally and added “Aren’t we talking about democracy? So I have told my opinion” have been cancelled in four cities.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has criticized European leaders for failing to show solidarity with Turkey during a recent coup attempt, while instead they raised concerns about the rule of law.
Singer Sıla Gençoğlu has said, “I am watching in a state of shock and a bit of sorrow at what a point the words I said, relying on democracy, to justify my decision not to attend the democracy meeting have come to.”
President Erdoğan invited the CHP and MHP to meet to discuss steps to be taken in the wake of the coup. The HDP, as at the rally, was excluded.
Kemal Kilicdaroglu leader of Republican People’s Party (CHP) delivers a speech during a Democracy and Martyrs’ Rally in Istanbul, Sunday, Aug. 7, 2016. Emrah Gurel / Press Association. All rights reserved.As the implications of last month’s coup attempt continue to shake Turkey, opposition-government relations in the country are undergoing a complete shift. While much attention has been cast on how rapprochement between the opposition and the AKP has created an atmosphere of unity in Turkey that could dissolve social polarization, little attention has been cast on the negative implications this may have.
Can John Oliver’s 19 minutes rivet attention as all the bolts and screws continue to come undone in the local news business?
That seems a hope against hope — and yet 3.7 million YouTube views of his Sunday evening HBO program say something. Oliver offered no new revelations, but he connected the dots as he has so expertly done week after week on Last Week Tonight since its April 2014 debut.
The Huffington Post will soon be post-Arianna Huffington. The president and editor-in-chief announced publicly on Thursday she would be stepping down from the site she cofounded in 2005 with Kenneth Lerer and Jonah Peretti, despite having several more years on her contract, to focus on her new lifestyle, health and wellness venture.
Raise your hand if you’re a reporter or editor who loves your newsroom CMS. You compose in it directly. There are story templates perfectly suited to your writing process, just complex enough. There are no extraneous fields to complete (or forget to complete). Every single person in the newsroom understands how to use it.
The Olympics are, like the quadrennial U.S. presidential election, the perfect opportunity for news organizations to experiment with new ways to present news online. The Games are a massive story, but the stakes are typically relatively low, and, perhaps most importantly, the date of the event is known years ahead of time. As a result, outlets have plenty of time to plan coverage and build out interactives.
Reported.ly, the social news site funded by Pierre Omidyar’s First Look Media,said Monday that is will “suspend its operations” as of August 31. In a Medium post, Reported.ly editor Andy Carvin said that First Look “has chosen to part ways with us, so we will no longer receive financial support from the company.”
Robin Kwong, the FT’s special projects editor, shares an insight into his collaborative work with the newsroom to develop more ambitious editorial initiatives
The announcement of Instagram Stories last Tuesday came with mixed reviews, many considering it a blatant ripoff of Snapchat. Allowing users to share real-time life updates, news media have a new opportunity to report from the field while also giving a behind-the-scenes glimpse of life at the publication. Snapchat and Instagram Stories differ as far as audience and ease of use, given that Instagram is predominantly used for high quality photography (often curated after the fact). On both platforms, users can upload photographs and videos previously taken (though in Snapchat they’re framed as Memories), while Instagram only allows for media that has been shot over the last 24 hours (though screenshotting old photos gets around that). One thing that attracts the non-teen generation to Facebook and Instagram is the idea of content longevity, a gap Snapchat has attempted to bridge.
In 2016, citizen media plays a crucial role in almost every breaking news story around the world. It is increasingly rare that a news event will go by without a picture or video from an eyewitness at the scene.
‘A lot of the problems people are trying to solve in the news ecosystem are common across organisations and borders, so we encourage people to be collaborative’
It is with great regret that I must announce that reported.ly will suspend its operations on August 31, 2016. Our funder and employer, First Look Media, has chosen to part ways with us, so we will no longer receive financial support from the company.
In the subterranean newsroom, fear is everywhere. “Hacking was bad,” says one person familiar with the internal investigation. “This is arguably worse.”
The New York Times publishes more than 300 stories each day. Which ones should editors feature on its many social media channels? While the humans behind the Times’ social media accounts have refined their voice and craft, the process of handpicking which stories to feature can still be laborious andinvolves quite a bit of trial and error. Only around 50 stories make it to the Times’ main Facebook page each day, for instance (even fewer on weekends).
Apparently new media continues to fold in on itself in strange and new ways this summer. Re/code today wrote a follow-up to a report that NBCUniversal will invest $200 million into both Vox Media and Buzzfeed. According to sources, the $200 million investment in Vox Media puts it at a pre-money valuation of $850 million. Vox Media, the parent company of the Verge, acquired Re/code in May of this year. Writer Peter Kafka noted in the piece that he and the rest of the team are, “conflicted up the wazoo on this one.” But the money isn’t the only intriguing part of…
A Turkish hotel which staged a “poolside jihadist assault” as entertainment has refuted a British media report that its customers were “panicked,” hotel managers have told daily Hürriyet.
The grim rise of the ISIL has had at least one positive side for Turkish barbers, as hirsute men have begun to forego their fashionable long beards amid concern about being associated with the jihadi group
Thanks to Prof. Yaman Akdeniz, who was in turn notified by Engelliweb.com ( a site that tracks banned sites in Turkey), one of my posts about the prosecutor, Mehmet Kiraz, being taken hostage by DHKPC militans back in April was banned. It seems that all websites including the hostage photo had been banned in bulk.
Here is the post that cannot be accessed in Turkey. I do not know if it can be accessed abroad.
I was not notified about the ban. Service Providers & local Hosting companies implement the ban.
Here is the judge’s order that bans many sites, accounts or pages that include Mr. Kiraz’ photo taken hostage my militants:
