#LoveWins You WILL LOSE! “Governor’s Office bans LGBT Pride march in Istanbul

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Trans Pride Committee: We Don’t Recognize Prohibition

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İstanbul Governorate has declared it is not going to permit the Pride Parades. While İstanbul LGBTI+ Pride Week Committee has found the decision unlawful, Trans Pride Week Committee said they won’t recognize the prohibition.

Governor’s Office bans LGBT Pride march in Istanbul

The Istanbul Governor’s Office has announced that it will not allow the LGBT Pride March, which was set to take place between June 19 and June 26 in Istanbul’s Taksim Square, citing security concerns and public order

Message From Sezen Aksu for Pride Week: Love Wins

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In her message she has sent to the Pride Parade Committee, Sezen Aksu has noted “No kind of violence can ever separate anyone from their nature or beliefs. Sooner or later love wins”.

#aşkkazanacak* Campaign for Pride Parade

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SPoD LGBTI says “While we continue our struggle with love, we ask you to stand by us against the ones who try to intimidate us with hate speech and threats”.

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Eurosphere agenda: “Interactive map: 15 years of European migrant deaths…”Murder overshadows Brexit referendum campaign…

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Interactive map: 15 years of European migrant deaths

 Boing Boing by Andrea James

Austrian designer Moriz Büsing created this grim interactive map of migrant and refugee deaths on the way to Europe, or trying to stay in Europe; over 32,000 deaths in 15 years

Europe migrant crisis: Charity rejects EU funds over migration policy

 BBC News | Europe | World Edition

The medical aid charity Medecins Sans Frontieres says it will no longer take funds from the European Union in protest at its migration policy.

Killing of MP Jo Cox halts Brexit campaigning in UK

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Campaigning for June 23 referendum suspended after pro-EU campaigner Jo Cox, 41, is shot dead in northern England.

Debate: Murder overshadows Brexit referendum campaign

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The motivation behind the murder of Labour MP and Brexit opponent Jo Cox on Thursday remains unclear. The killer is said to have shouted “Britain first” during his assault and there is speculation that he is mentally disturbed. What impact will the attack have with just a few days to go before the Brexit referendum?

Croatia’s right-wing government falls

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Croatia’s government fell Thursday (17 June) after Prime Minister Tihomir Oreskovic lost a confidence vote in parliament, in a serious blow to the country’s nationalist rulers after only five months in power.

The rise of euroscepticism in the United Kingdom or the failure of Europeanism

open Democracy News Analysis – by Sophie Heine

The European Union has severely undermined perceptions of sovereignty and it will fail unless EU citizens regain their voice in the policy process. Might a fully-fledged federalist project do that?

All eyes on the EU Skills Agenda

 EurActiv.com by Alba Xhixha

Unemployment rates continue to run high across Europe; 10 June saw the European Commission publish its much-anticipated Skills Agenda. It is a welcome step towards addressing this challenge, and one that will need to be further built upon, writes Alba Xhixha.

Brexit’s Impact on the World Economy

 Project Syndicate by Anatole Kaletsky

The febrile behavior of financial markets ahead of the UK’s “Brexit” referendum on June 23 shows that the outcome will influence economic and political conditions around the world far more profoundly than Britain’s share of global GDP might suggest. In fact, for three reasons, a Brexit vote could catalyze another global crisis.

Spain’s Podemos Party publishes its manifesto in Ikea Catalog form

Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow

Spain’s anti-austerity, left-wing Podemos (“We Can”) Party (previously), which grew out of Spain’s Occupy-like Indignados movement, has just published its election manifesto for the June 26 election —

Ikea-style politics

 BBC News | Europe | World Edition

Presenting their manifesto in an Ikea-style catalogue proves Spain’s newest party Podemos knows how to grab young voters’ attention, says Prof Manuel Arias-Maldonado.

Euro 2016: Russia faces Uefa probe after stadium violence

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

Uefa opens disciplinary proceedings against Russia’s Football Union after crowd disturbances at the Euro 2016 match between England and Russia

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Prof. Dr. Zeynep Sayın ile ilgili olarak ‘İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi’nden Bir Grup Akademisyen’

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‘İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi’nden Bir Grup Akademisyen’ imzasıyla yayımlanan bildirinin tam metni şöyle:

“Öğrencilerimize, Mezunlarımıza ve Kamuoyuna,

“Dün sabah bir meslektaşımıza ait olduğu iddia edilen ve gizlice alındığı söylenen bir ses kaydına ilişkin haberlerin yayınlanmasını takiben, Bilgi’de yarı zamanlı olarak ders veren Prof. Dr. Zeynep Sayın ile Üniversitemizin ilişiğinin Rektörlük tarafından kesilmiş olduğunu üzülerek öğrendik.

“Biz, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi’nde çalışan bir grup akademisyen, üniversite yönetiminin muhbirlik müessesesini özendiren ve sınıf içindeki akademik ifade özgürlüğünü boğma riskini taşıyan bu tavrını kabul edilemez buluyoruz. Üniversite yönetiminin sorgusuz sualsiz aldığı ve yargısız infaz şeklinde kamuoyuna duyurduğu “ilişkiyi kesme” kararının haksız, hukuksuz ve her şeyden önce Üniversitemizin yıllardır benimsemiş olduğu özgürlükçü akademik ve insani değerlerle çelişen bir nitelik taşıdığı kanaatindeyiz. Alınan bu kararı da, bu kararın alınış ve duyuruluş biçimini de kınıyoruz.

“İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi’nin tarihine bir utanç lekesi olarak geçecek bu kararı alanlar ve uygulayanlar bilsin ki bir üniversiteyi üniversite yapan, siyasi baskılara, ticari kaygılara veya kariyer hırslarına yenik düşerek hukuksuz kararlar alan ve uygulayan akademik ünvanlı memurlar değil, ifade özgürlüğüne sahip çıkan ve bu uğurda mücadele vermekten kaçınmayan akademisyenlerdir. İfade özgürlüğünün siyasal saiklerle boğulduğu bir kurum, üniversite adıyla anılmaya layık değildir. Biz, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi’nin özgürlükçü ruhunu ve değerlerini taşıyan bir grup akademisyen, bu kurumun bir üniversite olma iddiasını kaybetmemesi için mücadele etmeye kararlıyız ve üniversite yönetiminin aksine, Zeynep Sayın ile ilişkimizi kesmediğimizi, kesmeyeceğimizi ve onun yanında durmaya devam edeceğimizi öğrencilerimize, mezunlarımıza ve kamuoyuna duyururuz.

“İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi’nden Bir Grup Akademisyen”

Bilgi Üniversitesi Akademisyenlerinden Meslektaşlarının İşten Çıkarılmasına Tepki

İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi’nden bir grup akademisyen, üniversitenin Cumhurbaşkanı’na hakaret ettiği iddiaları üzerine Prof. Dr. Zeynep Sayın Balıkçıoğlu’nu işten çıkarmasını kınayan bir açıklama yayınladı.

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Cyberculture agenda: “Net Neutrality Rules Upheld- for the moment…

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Net Neutrality Won Big Today, But Don’t Celebrate Just Yet

Wired Top Stories by Klint Finley

Net neutrality advocates just scored a major victory in the fight to keep the Internet free of “fast lanes.”

Net Neutrality Rules Upheld: Go Team Internet!

 EFF.org Updates by Kit Walsh

In a crucial win for Internet users, today a federal appeals court upheld [PDF] clear net neutrality rules that will let us all use and enjoy the Internet without unfair interference from Internet service providers. The rules will keep providers from blocking or slowing traffic, or speeding up traffic for those who pay.

Facebook activates first Safety Check in U.S. after mass shooting at Orlando nightclub

Mashable! by Colin Daileda

 

Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26b

The Next Web by Abhimanyu Ghoshal

Microsoft is set to acquire LinkedIn, the social network for professionals, for $26.2 billion in an all-cash transaction.

How Google Innovates

 Digital Tonto

What makes Google special is the way it’s been able to integrate an entire portfolio of innovation strategies int

Mobilisation for digital rights

 open Democracy News Analysis – by Joe McNamee

Post-ACTA, decision-making has been adapted to avoid decision-moments. Of course, individual grassroots campaigns are still hugely valuable. But we need long-term advocacy.

An anti-ACTA protest in downtown Ljubljana, Slovenia, February, 2012. Matej Leskovsek / Press Association. All rights reserved.In a digital society, digital rights are simply our rights. They are our right to express ourselves freely, our right to a private life, our right to our possessions. But what if digital society fails to realise that our traditional rights and freedoms cannot always be defended by traditional thinking or traditional legal instruments?

Twitter Tops 2016 Online Trust Audit and Honor Roll

All Facebook by David Cohen

Twitter finished atop the 2016 Online Trust Audit and Honor Roll list of highest scoring websites in terms of consumer protection, data security and privacy, according to the Online Trust Alliance.

Pinterest and Instagram were the other social networks to crack the OTA’s top 10:

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Venice Commission calls curfews in Turkey ‘unconstitutional’ WHILE Gov’t submits draft to overhaul entire supreme justice….

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Venice Commission calls curfews in Turkey ‘unconstitutional’

The Venice Commission of the Council of Europe (CoE) has arrived at the conclusion that curfews imposed in various districts and neighborhoods in Turkey’s Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia regions since August 2015 were “not constitutional.”

Gov’t submits draft to overhaul entire supreme justice

A draft law aiming to change the structures of two top supreme judiciary institutions to purge alleged members of the Gülen movement from critical judicial positions has been submitted to parliament

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Activist Chris Stephenson to stand trial as Turkish state cracks down on opponents
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Chris Stephenson, socialist activist and lecturer at Istanbul’s Bilgi university, has been charged with possessing “propaganda for a terrorist organisation.” His trial starts on 23 June. The charge is serious and could result in a long prison sentence ..

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Eurosphere agenda: “the new far-right political group in the European Parliament…”Grexit talks…

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Teen jailed for German student death

 BBC News | Europe | World Edition

An eighteen year-old man is given three years in youth custody over the death of a German student teacher who was hailed as national hero.

Dissolve the eurozone, says new extreme right group

EurActiv.com

Marine Le Pen has presented her new Polish and British allies, who will be propping up her group in the European Parliament. But the details of their political programme are yet to be defined. EurActiv France reports.

Europe’s nationalists find common cause

 BBC News | Europe | World Edition

How Europe’s nationalists came together a year after the polls

Why the new far-right political group in the European Parliament is a political failure

open Democracy News Analysis – by Cas Mudde

Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders announced the formation of the new Europe of Nations and Freedoms group in the European Parliament today. A financial success? Sure. A political success? Unlikely.

 

EU solidarity damaged by splits on migrants and Greece

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

EU solidarity damaged by splits on migrants and Greece

The Danish election: One to watch

Open Europe blog by Pieter Cleppe

The Danish election: One to watch

Denmark’s general election will take place on Thursday. The vote could yield a new centre-right government that is strongly supportive of David Cameron’s EU renegotiation bid. Irrespective of who wins, the election is likely to see the country’s eurosceptic parties increase their power in the Folketing, the Danish parliament. This post is co-authored by Aleksander Pruitt and Pieter Cleppe.

 

Grexit: Failure of the European idea

Eurozine articles by Steffen Vogel

Even if a majority of German business leaders look upon a Grexit as a favourable option, writes Steffen Vogel, the political price of a Grexit cannot be underestimated. A Grexit would be nothing short of an act of desperation by political elites either unable, or unwilling, to find an alternative solution.

War of words in Greece’s debt talks

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

The Greece debt crisis negotiations in quotes

Greek central bank issues “Grexit” warning if aid talks fail

EurActiv.com

The Greek central bank warned on Wednesday (17 June) that the country would be put on a “painful course” towards default and exiting the eurozone if the government and its international creditors failed to reach an agreement on an aid-for-reforms deal.

Greece ‘headed for painful euro exit’

 BBC News | Europe | World Edition

Greece’s central bank has warned for the first time that the country could be on a “painful course” towards default and exiting the eurozone.

MAIN FOCUS: EU states still at odds over refugee quota | 17/06/2015

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The EU interior ministers again failed to reach an agreement on the distribution of refugees on Tuesday. And a new conflict is brewing over whether hundreds of refugees should be allowed to cross the border from Italy into France. Without solidarity there can be no solution to the refugee crisis, commentators write, and call on the EU states to set aside their nationalist eyeglasses.

The ‘parasite law’ in Belarus

open Democracy News Analysis – by Ekaterina Loushnikova

In the Soviet Union, anyone without an official job could be charged with ‘parasitism’ and sentenced to internal exile. Now Belarus has revived the idea.

EU-Cuba talks progress on trade

EurActiv.com

The 4^th round of EU-Cuba negotiations for a framework agreement for political dialogue and cooperation was held yesterday in Brussels (16 June), making progress in the economic area, but lagging behind on the political dialogue chapter.

EU extends Russia sanctions

EurActiv.com

European Union governments agreed today (17 June) to extend economic sanctions on Russia over its actions in Ukraine by six months until 31 January, diplomats said, maintaining unity in the West’s tough stance towards Moscow.

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