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Showing posts with label September 19. Show all posts
Showing posts with label September 19. Show all posts
Monday, September 19, 2016
School year starts with thousands of teachers fired… A news roundup…
Millions of students are starting the new school year on Sept. 19 across Turkey after a three-month summer break. Over 18 million students will start the school year, while nearly 900,000 teachers will be on duty
Court frees assailant who attacked woman for wearing shorts in Istanbul
A court in Istanbul released on Sept.18 an assailant who attacked and injured a young woman on a public bus for wearing shorts, a charge that was admitted by the attacker, who claimed the victim’s outfit was “not appropriate”
Nearly 9,000 mosques have been built over the last decade in Turkey, according to statistics released by Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet)
Turkey’s writers and artists continue to resist against all difficulties, struggling in an environment of terror, political turmoil and government pressure, according to veteran journalist Doğan Hızlan
With the film “Canım Kardeşim” (My Dear Brother) from the year of 1973 being the first movie I remember watching from beginning to end on a TV screeen, which starred the late Tarık Akan, the handsome actor is buried in the childhood memories of a majority of Turkish people
As Europe grapples with the burkini, Islamic dress in Turkey has become a symbol of religious freedom, and the nation has fostered fashion houses, magazines and bloggers.
Turkey’s female labor force participation rate in 1990 was 34%, in 2014 29% (World Bank).
The following is from the Turkish Statistical Institute (see this link for other interesting indicators for women’s lives, including literacy rates, marriage age, income disparity, household labor, violence, political participation):
Female employment rate was half of male employment rate
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- Still working on the new template, in the mean time, here is some on Turkey sinking into Medieval ages:
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Sunday, September 18, 2016
Journalism agenda: It seems that WashPost Making History by its Call for Prosecution of Its Own Source in the Snowden case…
Three of the four media outlets that received and published large numbers of secret NSA documents provided by Edward Snowden — The Guardian, the New York Times, and The Intercept –– have called for the U.S. government to allow the NSA whistleblower to return to the U.S. with no charges. That’s the normal course for a news organization, which owes its sources duties of protection, and which — by virtue of accepting the source’s materials and then publishing them — implicitly declares the source’s information to be in the public interest.
Zach Seward, senior vice-president of product and executive editor, explained the “conversational interface” behind the Quartz app at the ONA conference in Denver
Doxxing – the public posting of journalists’ personal information – is a real threat, especially to those writing about certain issues
The reported.ly team discussed how they approached eyewitness media and graphic content, speaking at the ONA conference in Denver
A satirical website has launched that will help you push through your grief over the loss of the anti-establishment hero, Gawker.
Looking for a guide to organise digital training in your newsroom, or an app for distributing news to your readers’ smartphones? This collection of tools has you covered
From analyzing a book’s prospects to figuring out what subjects people are clamoring for, data is bigger in publishing than ever. But how much is too much?
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Global solidarity of intellectuals for the jailed writers in Turkey…
Leading philosophers support Turkey’s writers
Butler, Negri, Morin join signers of letter in support of Turkish writers; Roberto Saviano dedicates award to Altan brothers
Support for an international letter protesting the recent detention of Ahmet and Mehmet Altan and calling on end to the unjust persecution of writers in Turkey has continued to grow in the fourth day after the letter was made public.
On the fifth day of the Altan brothers’ detention, the letter has found 241 signatures from some of the world’s most well-known writers, intellectuals, academics, publishers and actors. The most recent signers include American philosopher Judith Butler, the celebrated Italian Marxist philosopher Antonio Negri –viewed as the leading theoretician for the left– and the French philosophers Edgar Morin, Jean-Luc Nancy and Judith Revel.
Italian journalist and writer Roberto Saviano, who’d signed the support letter on the first day, won the prestigious M100 Sanssouci Media Award at the Sanssouci Colloquium in Potsdam, Germany on Sept. 15.
In his acceptance speech at the ceremony, where Chancellor Angela Merkel was also present, Saviano said he dedicated his award to Ahmet and Mehmet Altan.
The letter, which was opened for signing on Sept. 10 following the detention of Ahmet Altan and Mehmet Altan, was able to collect 241 signatures within a matter of days from the world’s leading academics, intellectuals, writers, journalists and philosophers. The full text of the letter and an alphabetized list of the signers can be found below:
We the undersigned call upon democrats throughout the world as well as those who care about the future of Turkey and the region in which it exerts a leading role, to protest the vendetta, which the government is waging against its brightest thinkers and writers who may not share their point of view.
The background to this letter is the coup attempt on July 15, 2016, which mercifully failed and was quickly subdued. Had the Turkish people themselves not resisted this assault on their institutions, the result would have been years of misery.
In the aftermath of that coup, it is understandable that the government would have imposed a temporary state of emergency. However, the failed coup should not be a pretext for a McCarthy style witch hunt nor should that state of emergency be conducted with scant regard for basic rights, rules of evidence or even common sense.
We as writers, academics and defenders of freedom of expression are particularly disturbed to see colleagues we know and respect to being imprisoned under emergency regulations. Journalists like Şahin Alpay, Nazlı Ilıcak or the novelist Aslı Erdoğan have been outspoken defenders of democracy and opponents of militarism or tyranny of any sort.
We are particularly disturbed to see the prominent novelist Ahmet Altan, and his brother, Mehmet Altan, a writer and distinguished professor of economics, being detained in a dawn raid on September 10, 2016. The pair stands accused of somehow giving subliminal messages to rally coup supporters on a television panel show broadcast July 14th, the night before the coup-attempt.
Ahmet Altan is one of Turkey’s most important writers whose novels appear in translation and sell in the millions. He was also editor in chief for five years of the liberal daily newspaper Taraf. The paper championed the public’s right to know. He has been prosecuted many times over his career –in the 1990s for trying to get a Turkish readership to empathize with the country’s Kurds or more recently for trying to force an apology from the prime minister for the 2011 Roboski massacre in which 34 villagers were bombed. He appeared in court as recently as September 2, charged with handling state secrets based on an indictment that was in large part copy pasted from two entirely different cases.
Mehmet Altan is a professor at Istanbul University, a columnist whose numerous books campaigned to rebuild Turkey’s identity not on race or religion but respect for human rights. Like his brother and others now in jail his crime is not for supporting a coup but for the effectiveness of his criticism of the current government whose initial progress in broadening democracy is now jammed in reverse gear.
We therefore call upon the Turkish government to cease its persecution of prominent writers and to speed the release of Ahmet and Mehmet Altan as well as so many of their colleagues wrongly accused.
The list of signatory intellectuals here
In other news:
Critics say the wrong book or bank account, even reading the wrong newspaper or posting on Twitter, could lead to being fired or thrown in jail.
Both sides have an obligation to try to salvage their relationship.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has criticized Turkey over press freedom, at an award ceremony of the Sanssouci Colloquium held in Germany’s Potsdam
Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdish PKK, has called on the Turkish government and his supporters to resume peace talks. This was the first time he had been allowed to receive visitors since the Turkish peace process with the Kurds was broken off last year. Turkish commentators doubt that his call for peace will be heeded by the conflicting parties.
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Saturday, September 19, 2015
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Wrong title. It is not “at stake”, it is already gone: “Media freedom at stake as Turkey fights rebels
“This is not the first and will not be the last,” said Asli Tunc, professor at Istanbul’s Bilgi University. “This is unfortunately a cleansing operation — a result of a government agreement with media bosses ahead of the election.” At least 140 ..
Turkish prosecutors begins an investigation into a major media group, after pictures were published of dead soldiers, reports say.
The chief news editor of weekly magazine Nokta, which was raided by police due to the cover of its latest issue, was released on probation on Sept. 15
Turkish prosecutors have launched an investigation into the Doğan Media Group for “terrorist propaganda” following a widely derided front-page story in pro-government daily Güneş.
The President’s Office has dismissed growing criticism of a police raid on a Turkish magazine over its cover bearing a montage picture of a smiling President Erdoğan taking a “selfie” in front of the coffin of a soldier, claiming that “insults” cannot be considered part of freedom of expression.
Head of Peoples’ Democratic party raises fears after spate of clashes near Syrian border between Turkish nationalists and KurdsThe leader of Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish political party has warned that the country is on the verge of civil war between state forces and militant Kurdish separatists. The remarks made by Selahattin Demirtas, co-chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic party, followed scenes of violence and firebombing in Turkey last week, with hundreds of reported attacks by nationalist mobs on offices belonging to Demirtas’s party, known by the Turkish abbreviation HDP, as well as on ordinary Kurds.
Turkey’s governors denied 282 of 290 army requests for anti-terrorism operations in 2014
Operations conducted with permits the TSK received did not pose a major blow to terrorist organizations, military sources said, adding the administration could have found this convenient.
A deputy from Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) who gave a fiery speech to a group of protesters attacking daily Hürriyet’s headquarters in Istanbul on Sept. 6 is seen threatening Hürriyet journalists and expressing his regret that they “never beat them in the past” in a newly-surfaced video.
It has been revealed that the head of the police team that was sent to Karaçöl’s home to detain him was none other than Servet Kaynak, a suspect in the Ergenekon case against the eponymous clandestine organization allegedly working to topple the
Anne Brasseur, the president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has expressed her concerns about attacks targeting daily Hürriyet and the investigation launched by a prosecutor into the Doğan Media Group
Erdoğan’s fatwa-giver sees political parties as nuisance
Today’s Zaman
“This piece is the product of a mindset which has failed to embrace democracy, pluralism and living together in peace with diversities within society,” Ayhan Kaya, director of the European Institute at Bilgi University, told Today’s Zaman. In his ..
The situation appears to have again deteriorated in recent weeks with the arrests and deportations of international journalists, attacks on daily Hürriyet and a police raid on a holding company that owns opposition media
Istanbul prosecutor bans latest edition from being distributed over charges of ‘insulting the Turkish president’, Tayyip Erdogan
Turkish police raided a magazine on Monday over a mocked-up “selfie” of a smiling president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with the coffin of a soldier – an allusion to comments that families of soldiers killed by Kurdish rebels could be happy about their martyrdom.
‘People are afraid of traveling with their animals. So, the number of livestock has naturally decreased in big cities,’ breeder Yunus Coktin said, referring to the outlawed PKK’s renewed armed campaign
At least 55 militants were killed when Turkish warplanes hit the outlawed PKK camps in northern Iraq overnight, four days some 90 militants were reported killed in two operations
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Cyberculture agenda: “Mapping How Tor’s Anonymity Network Spread Around the World…
Germany has overtaken the US in total nodes, with France, the Netherlands, and Russia coming close behind.
Researchers dug through public records to uncover the true shape of cables at the heart of the U.S. Internet.
In six weeks last year, the Ice Bucket Challenge raised $115 million dollars. Now researchers at Johns Hopkins have said that the donations directly contributed to a breakthrough discovery of a protein replacement therapy that may help reverse the effects of the disease.
Celebrating the First Certificate From Let’s Encrypt
Today we mark an important milestone in our march to encrypt all of the Web: the first-ever certificate issued by Let’s Encrypt.
Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, open-source certificate authority (CA). The goal is to revolutionize encryption on websites, making HTTPS implementation a seamless, no-cost option for anyone with a domain. Forget about hours (or sometimes days) of muddling through complicated programming to set up encryption on a website, or yearly fees. Let’s Encrypt puts security in the hands of website owners.
It seems like Ashley Madison’s troubles just won’t let up. Company emails found in a data dump leaked by hackers after they breached the site’s systems reveal that it planned to send out no less than 100,000 spam tweets a month
The design studio four32c posted a tribute/obit for Style.com recently and though it was good to see recognition for its pioneering work, for the sake of digital history, it’s also important to get on the record some corrections about the story. It´s also important given the impact the pioneering work at Style and — more to the point — Vogue.com had on digital coverage of fashion that has followed.
Ashley Madison users chose passwords like “whyareyoudoingthis”
Now that 11.7 million Ashley Madison users’ passwords been shown to be crackable, we’re learning that password security has not improved since the last giant dump of user passwords.
As efforts to hinder file-sharing sites gather pace around the world, in Europe in particular, criminal actions in the U.S. remain relatively rare.
Home to the very Hollywood studios and major recording labels pressing for tough measures elsewhere, the United States has taken somewhat of a backseat, with only sporadic criminal actions to report in the past few years.
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