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Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Domestically Ashamed in the Mavi Marmara case, Uneasy to challenge Russians, Turkey zeroes in on Iran…
al-monitor.com – Dec 13, 1:50 AM
Author: Pinar Tremblay December 13, 2016 A few weeks before the devastating Dec. 10 twin bombings in Istanbul — for which Kurdish militants claimed responsibility — Al-Monitor spoke with several sources well-connected with Ankara
Turkey drops case against Israeli officers charged over deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship.
The whole Syrian affair deserves to be defined as a “crime against humanity.” The “intervention in Iraq” was another one, even if the chief conspirators, George W. Bush and Tony Blair, were able to get away with it given that they were the leaders of two powerful countries.
The Venice Commission, an advisory body at the human rights watchdog Council of Europe, says Turkey is abusing state of emergency laws in its wider efforts to purge so-called state saboteurs after the failed mid-July coup. It said the government is casting too wide a net over people linked to the Fethullah Gulen movement, which Ankara blames for the coup attempt. The full opinion will be published Monday December 12.
Turkey’s postal service (PTT) has announced that it has converted $172 million and 20 million euros of foreign exchange into Turkish Liras, in response to a call from President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to boost the struggling currency
A Greek appeals court in Athens, on Thursday, ruled to allow two Turkish officers to stay in Greece following extradition requests from Ankara. The officers are wanted by the Turkish authorities over allegations they were involved in July’s coup attempt. Eight Turkish officers fled to Greece and demanded asylum in the wake of the coup, three have so far been returned.
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- I thought it was a fake news but true: Licence Plates with the letters “FG” are banned…
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I will not miss 2016 but it was a productive year in reading-wise…
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Monday, December 14, 2015
Kebap Chefs continuously mistakenly linked to ISIS…”Number of People in Prisons Increases by 10.1%…
Yes, I have visited their Kebap place. They do it deliciously, and they have nothing to do with ISIS. Maybe they should shorten their beard though…
Chefs falsely linked to ISIL serve kebab to journalists, Turkish officials
A senior Turkish government official and his team hosted a group of journalists to brief them about the latest tensions with Russia, albeit at a less than ordinary venue for a confidential talk – a kebab house in central Istanbul
Turks have a low engagement rate in citizenship activities other than casting their vote in elections, according a new joint academic survey
According to TUİK’s stats of 2014, 204 out of every 100,000 persons were in penal institution whereas the figure was 163 in 2010.
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It is war out there in Turkey’s Kurdistan. 7 more killed today… while teachers are officially ordered to leave Cizre and Şırnak…
Two people die as demonstrators clash with police in Diyarbakır while five Kurdish militants are killed in Mardin
Teachers in Şırnak’s Cizre and Silopi districts have received an SMS informing them that they will be taken into in-service training as of December 14, many teachers have started to leave the districts.
Thousands of teachers working in Turkey’s southeastern provinces of Cizre and Silopi have started fleeing to their hometowns, less than 24 hours before the announcement of indeterminate curfews in the two towns
Two protesters die in the south-eastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir in a clash between police and Kurdish demonstrators over a security crackdown.
Clashes have erupted in Turkey’s southeastern Diyarbakır province after police refused to permit a rally protesting an ongoing curfew
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- “The (Turkish) State has arrived”. Scenes after the curfew in Silvan… An EFD Rights Watch….
- As Davutoğlu implies extrajudicial killings for Kurds, VICE reporter (#FreeRasool) and 19 Kurdish Co-Mayors still captive in Turkish prisons…
- Everyday we are insulting- 15 year old kid and a massive online community leader @srkninci detained and released today for insulting Erdoğan…
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Eurosphere agenda: Front National wins regional polls; defeated in key vote…
France’s far-right National Front fails to win a single region, despite leading in nearly half in the first round of voting.
The far-right Front National won the first round of France’s regional elections on Sunday, with both the conservatives and the Socialists trailing behind. The Front National’s success is a result of the terrorist attacks in Paris, some commentators conclude. Others stress that the rise of the Front National must be seen in a historical context.
The leader of France’s far-right National Front says voters rejected the “old political class” in regional elections that put her party top.
After Sunday’s regional elections, will the French be able to stop FN from finally breaking through the fragile glass ceiling? And what about the renewed political world that voters want?
After regional elections marked by a surge in support for the French National Front (NF), in which the party still failed to gain any power, all eyes are already turning to the 2017 presidential campaign.
French regional election: Lessons learnt
Dramatic footage from Spain shows a raid on the home of a British man accused of running Europe’s largest drug-trafficking network.
If this was an historic deal, most of the papers clearly didn’t agree.
Only one paper led with the deal, the Observer:
We need to expand the emancipatory space for what is possible from within acontaminated and contaminant discourse, far removed from pure rationality and a theoretical superiority over ‘the masses’. Español.
Demotix/Marcos del Mazo. All rights reserved.To grasp how stunningly Podemos burst onto the political scene in recent Spanish history, one must understand and reflect upon an idea that has already been explored in politics: namely that the hitherto leading role of the working class, as well as its historical role in social struggles, should be taken into consideration alongside other emerging social forces of similar ‘critical’ relevance.
By the end of the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris 196 states had agreed to attempt to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Some commentators celebrate the agreement as a milestone and praise the global village for its new awareness. Others criticise the absence of business representatives and the lack of binding obligations.
Podemos, rather than being a prosthesis for the 15-M multitude, should be conceived as a weapon it needed to be able to navigate this fluid and unstable historical conjuncture.
Podemos emerged as the instrument of a new multitude that gestated and developed in the weeks of 15-M and after. That multitude did not consist in an aggregated set of demands, or a collection of fragments, nor was it already a constituted ‘people’. Instead, the multitude that emerges with 15-M is a specific kind of invention, which nevertheless corresponds to the definition of a political multitude – something that has existed ever since Spinoza and which, contra Hobbes, sees it as a heterogeneous multiplicity with variable contours which is nonetheless capable of acting as one mind, to organise itself functionally, aggregate, disperse and take decisions. This means that Podemos as an instrument, rather than being a prosthesis for this multitude, should be conceived as a weapon, a necessary weapon for it to be able to navigate this fluid and unstable historical conjuncture.
Ecuador has agreed to allow Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to be questioned by the Swedish authorities at the Ecuadorean embassy in London.
With the closure of the Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian and Macedonian borders to all migrants who are not of Syrian, Iraqi or Afghan nationality, the international community has sent out a worrying signal.
Migrants stuck at the Greek-Macedonian border. Demotix/Tasos Markou. All rights reserved.With the closure of the Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian and Macedonian borders to all migrants who are not of Syrian, Iraqi or Afghan nationality, the international community has sent out a strong signal. Any migrant who is not from one out of three nationalities and attempts to travel via the Western Balkan route to the EU is not welcome.
New figures show Germany has registered 964,574 new asylum-seekers in the first 11 months of the year, putting it on course for more than a million in 2015.
Police investigating a “terrorist incident” at an east London Tube station ask witnesses who filmed the stabbing to share their footage with detectives.
As new rulers (and their voters) gradually realize that austerity cannot be simply voted out of existence, or prosperity into existence, the prevailing mood is that of a bad hangover.
‘We stay in Europe’ rally in Athens, June, 2015. Demotix/ Chrissa Giannakoudi. All rights reserved.Having spent the best part of the last six years talking and writing about the Greek crisis, I often find myself wondering what else one might add to that subject.
Spain election campaign kicks off with fresh faces
Whatever happens in the Spanish general election, the real story will be about a profound transformation taking place at the heart of Spanish society: generational change.
The border between Macedonia and Greece has re-opened after being closed for two days.
France’s National Front and its efforts to change
A stabbing at Tube station in east London, in which one man was arrested, is being treated as a “terrorist incident,” police say.
France’s far-right National Front makes big gains in regional elections, estimates suggest, three weeks after the Paris attacks.
Greece’s parliament approves a budget for 2016 that includes sharp spending cuts and some tax increases amid economic recession.
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