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Monday, August 22, 2016

I thought it was a fake news but true: Licence Plates with the letters “FG” are banned…

FG are the first letters of outlawed Fethullah Gülen, the founder of Gülenist movement…

News in Turkish here

Ankara moves to prevent Gülen’s ‘Turkish Olympics’ language competition

Four Turkish ministries have moved to take measures to prevent the “Turkish Olympics” international language competition, as part of steps taken against activities of the U.S.-based preacher Fethullah Gülen abroad

Ex-PM Davutoğlu’s former right hand man detained in anti-Gülen probe

Ambassador Gürcan Balık, who served as the chief advisor to former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu during the latter’s time as foreign minister at the time of various diplomatic crises, has been detained as part of Turkey’s post-coup attempt investigation

Turkey arrests novelist Aslı Erdoğan over ‘terror’ charges

A Turkish court arrested prize-winning novelist Aslı Erdoğan on Aug. 19 over alleged links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), three days after she and two dozen more staff from the Özgür Gündem newspaper were detained

Nine Years on, Turkey Blames Gulenists for Murder of Ethnic Armenian Journalist

Global Voices Online by Mel Plant

Hrant Dink. Image captured and cropped from a YouTube video uploaded by Vartkes Hergel.

Mourning the dead

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

Victims of Saturday night’s wedding party blast which left at least 50 dead and injured many more are being buried in the southern Turkish city of Gaziantep.

Hundreds protest over murder of trans woman in Istanbul

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Demonstrators gather in Turkish city of Istanbul to protest over the brutal murder of iconic LGBT activist Hande Kader.

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Sunday, August 21, 2016

In the mean time in Europe: “Costume drama”

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Costume drama

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

The BBC’s Pakistan correspondent asks why some object to seeing women in burkinis on the beach.

German minister proposes partial Burqa ban

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Interior minister says ban on face veils would apply to “places where it is necessary for society’s coexistence”.

Swedish King and Queen at Olympics get the Photoshop battle royalty deserves

Mashable! by Heather Dockray

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While most people watch the Olympics to watch actual Olympians, others are here to simply marvel at the spectators.

A new party for Ukraine’s euro-optimists?

open Democracy News Analysis – by Isaac Webb and Mikhail Minakov

If it is to succeed in a turbulent political environment, the ambitious DemAlliance project must overcome Ukraine’s tradition of centering political movements on personalities rather than ideologies.

A public talk held by DemAlliance in Kyiv this summer, with Vasyl Hatsko (left), Yevheniya Kuleba (centre left), Viktor Chumak (centre right) and Serhiy Leshchenko (far right). Image: DemAlliance.Ukraine has never been a land for liberals. In 25 years of independence, the country’s liberal, European integrationists have never had a legitimate political party to represent them. Numerous parties claiming to do so have operated as fronts for oligarchic interests or been too weak to affect national politics.

The migrant camps of Chios: Greece’s ongoing refugee crisis

open Democracy News Analysis – by John-Mark Philo

There are three refugee camps on the Greek island of Chios. Your quality of life depends a great deal on where you’ve been placed, and where you’ve been placed is mostly down to luck.

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Cyberculture agenda: “The U.S. will no longer have the final say on internet domain names…

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Mozilla open-sourced its logo redesign, and here are the finalists

The Next Web by Natt Garun

In June, Mozilla announced that it would be redesigning its logo with the help of the internet’s collaboration. Along the way, it asked its community members to provide feedback on every step, shaping the logo into what the Web believes is a strong rebrand.

The U.S. will no longer have the final say on internet domain names

Mashable! by Carmen Triola

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The National Telecommunications Information Admistration (NTIA) announced via blog post on Tuesday that it will hand over the internet domain naming system, or DNS, to a non-U.S. entity: the multi-stakeholder nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

A new algorithm can identify depressed individuals by their Instagram photos

The Next Web by Bryan Clark

We’ve long associated color with emotion. Intuitively, each of us associates colors with feelings. Brighter colors often signify good moods, while neutrals and grays are typically associated with negative feelings. This simple concept led researchers Andrew Reece (Harvard) and Chris Danforth (University of Vermont) to create an algorithm that attempted to use color — and other bits of information left behind in photos — to help identify depression on Instagram. To start, the pair sourced some 500 workers from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service that had Instagram accounts. They asked each of these individuals to fill out a series of questionnaires, including a…

Chicago’s Experiment in Predictive Policing Isn’t Working

MIT Technology Review