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Wednesday, September 7, 2016

“First Comic & Arts Festival in Istanbul” Istanbul News roundup…

The Istanbul Comics & Art Festival (ICAF) will be held for the first time this year at the St. Joseph Social Club in the city’s Moda neighborhood

Governor claims Istanbul is ‘among safest cities in the world’

Hurriyet Daily News

Istanbul remains among the safest cities in the world, despite escalating regional risks and a series of terrorist attacks in Turkey’s largest city, Istanbul .

Istanbul Atatürk Airport breaks a new record

FTNnews.com (press release)

Ataturk Airport thy tail Istanbul Atatürk Airport broke a new traffic record on Sunday, September 4, 2016. A total of 1,454 takeoffs and landings took

Refugee experience front and center at Istanbul Triennial

Forty artists will participate in the Third International Istanbul Triennial with works depicting the plight and experience of refugees

Historic Istanbul district by Bosphorus to get facelift

The historic Istanbul district of Üsküdar will receive a brand-new look thanks to a massive project to redesign a historic square by the Bosphorus, which is decorated with numbers of valuable Ottoman buildings and mosques

Changing times for Istanbul’s Beyoglu | DW News

MSN.com

For more DW news go to http://ift.tt/2bXZMH0 the terrorist attacks and coup attempt, visitors have stopped coming to the ..

Clarinet masters in Istanbul for festival

Hurriyet Daily News

16 and 25 in Istanbul, centered on the theme “Istanbul is breathing.” … Çağrı said they organized the festival with the theme “Istanbul is breathing” for

Clarinet masters in Istanbul for festival

Hurriyet Daily News

The Fifth International Clarinet Festival will be held between Sept. 16 and 25 in Istanbul, centered on the theme “Istanbul is breathing.” The most

World philosophers to meet in Istanbul

Hurriyet Daily News

The International Institute of Philosophy (IIP) will hold its International Philosophy Days gathering in Istanbulthis year between Sept. 6 and Sept. 9

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Monday, September 7, 2015

From Turkey with love: Erdoğan’s own video censored when put online in an opposition paper, Cumhuriyet

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News in Turkish here

In the video Erdoğan says if AKP won 400 seats in the parliament, post election violence would not happen…

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Starbucks ‘doesn’t plan to sell alcoholic beverages in Turkey’

Starbucks does not plan to sell alcoholic beverages in Turkey, its country business director Tunç Tunaveli has said, as reported by Turkish daily Dünya

AFP’s Bülent Kılıç wins international photojournalism honour

Agence France-Presse photographer Bülent Kılıç was honoured Sept. 5 at photojournalism’s biggest annual festival for dramatic images of refugees fleeing across the Turkish border

Top 50 trekking routes in Turkey

Turkey has a lot of different panoramas to offer. Let us walk you through misty valleys, fairy chimneys, breathtaking waterfalls, sand dunes and ‘starry’ lakes with our guide that lists top 50 trekking routes in Turkey

In Photos: Ten secret escapes across Anatolia

Turkey’s major cities are often described as convivial, energetic — and chaotic. With a population nearing 80 million, with more than 70 percent living in cities, it is a challenge to escape from the burdens of everyday life – but it is possible. Here is a guide to Turkey’s ten beautiful towns that are members of the Cittaslow (or the Slow City) movement.

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In the anniversary of Istanbul pogrom, Hürriyet Daily attacked by a mob including an AKP deputy…

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Hürriyet Daily Attacked after the Clashes in Dağlıca

Bianet :: English

A group of people attacked and broke the glasses of the building of Hürriyet Daily by shouting slogans in favour of the President Erdoğan and soldiers who died during conflicts.

Pro-government protesters pelt daily Hürriyet building with stones

Daily Hürriyet’s Istanbul headquarters was attacked by around 150 pro-government protesters early Sept. 7, hours after a deadly terrorist attack in Turkey’s southeast

Attack on Hürriyet building marks ‘black page’ for Turkey’s democracy

Daily Hürriyet’s Istanbul headquarters was pelted with stones by a group of pro-AKP supporters early on Sept. 7 in an attack described by the newspaper’s editor-in-chief as ‘a black page in Turkey’s democratic history’

Istanbul pogrom commemorated in central venue

A group of representatives from several minority advocate groups gathered on Istanbul’s İstiklal Avenue to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Istanbul pogrom, anti-Greek riots in Sept. 6 and 7 in 1955 that left 15 people dead, many others injured and a large number of Greek homes and buildings looted

MHP leader condemns vandalism attack against Hürriyet daily

Turkey’s nationalist leader has joined condemnation of a vandalism attack at the headquarters of Hürriyet daily newspaper, calling it “very awful.”

Turkey’s interior minister vows ‘no concession regarding rule of law’ after attack on Hürriyet

Interior Minister Selami Altınok has vowed that ‘no concession will be given regarding principles of the rule of law and public order,’ speaking about the violent attack on the headquarters of daily Hürriyet in Istanbul

HDP Delegation: 7 People Died in Cizre District

Bianet :: English

HDP delegation explained 7 people died in two days and some quarters had neither electricity nor water and the hospital had only one doctor, in Cizre.

Turkish lira hits new low after deadly PKK attack

The Turkish Lira hit new lows against the U.S. dollar early Sept. 7, due to concern over Turkey’s worsening security situation, after Kurdish militants carried out one of their deadliest bomb attacks on Turkish troops in years

HDP renews call for immediate mutual silencing of arms

The Kurdish problem-focused HDP has offered its condolences over the killing of an undisclosed number of Turkish soldiers on Sept. 6 in a major attack in the southeastern province of Hakkari conducted by the outlawed PKK, while it reiterated its call for a mutual silencing of arms

CHP, MHP urge gov’t to disclose number of casualties in PKK attack

Turkey’s two major opposition parties have called on the government to disclose number of casualties in an attack against Turkish soldiers launched on Sept. 6 by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

Two people killed in clashes in Turkey’s southeast district, says HDP deputy

A HDP deputy, who entered Şırnak’s Cizre district, where a curfew has been in place since Sept. 4, said two young people were killed in clashes with security forces

Dutch journalist detained in Turkey for the second time

A Dutch journalist based in southeastern Diyarbakır province was detained Sept. 6 by the police for the second time, Netherland official news agency ANP has reported

‘Woman in red’ applies to Constitutional Court for rights violation

An academic who became known as the “woman in red” during the outset of the Gezi Park uprising in 2013 has applied to the Constitutional Court on grounds her rights had been violated

Journalists probed for ‘defaming’ Turkish president

The number of cases filed against journalists has increased with a criminal investigation launched against daily Zaman editor-in-chief Ekrem Dumanlı and a legal case filed against daily Bugün columnist Yavuz Baydar for allegedly defaming President Erdoğan

What is next for Erdogan’s AK party?

AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (IN DEPTH)

A conversation with Turkish voters on the political uncertainty reeling their country.

Vice News journalists back in UK after release from Turkish prison

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk

Jake Hanrahan and Philip Pendlebury ‘in good spirits’, but Turkey-based colleague Mohammed Ismael Rasool remains in custody

Two British journalists arrested in Turkey on terror charges are in “good health and spirits” after arriving back in the UK, their employer Vice News said.

UN Security Council members don’t pay price of crisis in Syria and Iraq: Turkish PM

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has reiterated his criticism towards United Nations Security Council permanent member states of being irrelevant to the crisis in Syria and Iraq, stressing it was the neighboring countries of Iraq and Syria which have paid the price of those crises

Bar association chief vows not to ‘give in’ to gov’t

The head of the Union of Turkish Bar Associations (TBB) has said vowed not to give in to the Justice and Development Party (AKP) ahead of the Nov. 1 elections

HDP files petition for electoral security as CHP rules out delay of snap polls

Kurdish problem-focused Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has filed a petition to Turkey’s top election body regarding electoral security, as Republican People’s Party (CHP) chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu dismissed claims of postponement of the early elections scheduled for Nov. 1.

If only you had stayed in Turkey, Erdoğan tells drowned Syrian toddler’s father

‘If only you had not put to sea so that we could host you in our country,’ President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has told the father of Aylan Kurdi, a 3-year-old Syrian Kurdish boy who drowned on way to Europe, triggering a global outcry.

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Cyberculture agenda: “Advocacy groups call on Twitter to restore API access to Politiwoops

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Advocacy groups call on Twitter to restore API access to Politiwoops

Nieman Journalism Lab by Joseph Lichterman

A collection of advocacy groups from around the world on Friday released anopen letter to Twitter, calling on the company to restore API access to Politiwoops, a site that archived politicians’ deleted tweets.

A eulogy for Politwoops, killed by Twitter’s confusion over privacy, politics, and journalism

June 4, 2015

How Google’s latest redesign shrank its logo from 2,145 bytes to only 305

Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin

Bit conservation! The redesign makes more sense now.

5 Extremely Risky Black Hat SEO Practices You Should Avoid

Social Media Today by Andy Kinsey

You have may heard about black hat SEO but you don’t have any idea about it. Well, to be brief, black hat SEO is term used to refer the utilizing of aggressive yet irrelevant SEO techniques that focus only on the search engine and not on the human users and usually does not obey the Webmasters Guidelines. Black hat SEO comes into a good number of types, some includes keyword stuffing, the use of invisible texts, doorway pages, adding irrelevant keywords to the page content and page swapping.

Is It Time to Appoint a Data Security Czar?

RAND: Commentary by RAND Staff

Cybersecurity needs to become more of a priority for the government and private corporations. Whatever the solution, public and private officials need to do a better job of weighing the risk-benefit calculation of storing data on Internet-accessible computers and justifying data-handling protocols.

Google’s new logo is friendly, not evil

Mashable! by Patrick Kulp

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Google just had its biggest makeover in a decade and a half, trading its iconic rainbow letters for a blockier, serif-free update.

Google’s look, evolved

The Official Google Blog by Google Blogs

Google has changed a lot over the past 17 years—from the range of our products to the evolution of their look and feel. And today we’re changing things up once again:

Wikipedia bans editors suspected of being paid shills

Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza

1441111781929101 381 accounts believed to be “socks”–used by editors to make paid-for changes to the site–have been cast out.

Google’s New Logo Is Trying Really Hard to Look Friendly

Wired Top Stories by Margaret Rhodes

“[Google] wants to make people feel like they are more human and less about being in the guts of the computer.”

Google’s new logo and the tyranny of ‘taste’ or why Gruber is full of it

The Next Web by Mic Wright

Google has a new logo or rather a new wordmark, if you want to be pernickety about it. And let’s be honest, when it comes to typefaces and logo design, people always want to be pernickety.

Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Cisco and more are designing an open-source video format

The Next Web by Jackie Dove

Seven of the largest tech companies have formed the new Alliance for Open Media, an open source project to develop new formats, codecs and technologies for viewing ultra high definition video and other media on the Web. Amazon, Cisco, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla and Netflix have joined forces to contribute their tech expertise to try and meet online demand for high-quality — including ultra high-definition — video, audio, images and streaming across numerous devices to serve users worldwide.

Twitter: Beyond the hashtags

AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (IN DEPTH)

We look at the micro-blogging site and how it has changed the way breaking news is reported.

We’re at Cyberwar: A Global Guide to Nation-State Digital Attacks

Wired Top Stories by Kim Zetter

In recent years, more than 20 countries have announced their intent to launch or beef up their offensive cyber capabilities. The result is a burgeoning digital arms race that presents a major threat to the security of our data.

Is Twitter dividing its userbase over hearts and stars?

The Next Web by Lauren Hockenson

The dawn of the war between hearts and stars may soon be upon us. Prepare yourself, and be ready to choose a side. This morning, in a blog post on the MTV Video Music Awards, the company showed off tweets featuring the customized moonman emoji for the event.

Twitter Wants to Be (Slightly) More Diverse by 2016

Wired Top Stories by Julia Greenberg

Twitter announced its latest diversity goals today. But the company’s goals aren’t that far off from, well, right now.

WordPress vs Joomla vs Drupal – Which One is Better?

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While WordPress powers 23% of all websites on the internet, it’s not the only open source content management system in the market. There are some other really awesome software like Joomla and Drupal. All three of them have a lot in common, but they still have their own pros and cons. In this article, we will compare WordPress vs Joomla vs Drupal to find out which is the best.

WordPress vs Joomla vs Drupal