Friday, August 5, 2016

#TurkeyCoup aftermath: Turkey in rhetorical fight with the West, particularly US, Austria and Italy…

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Turks Can Agree on One Thing: U.S. Was Behind Failed Coup
Turks of all stripes believe the United States was involved in the coup attempt, especially because the cleric suspected of leading it lives in Pennsylvania.
Austria is capital of radical racism, says Turkish foreign minister

Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu makes comments after Austrian chancellor suggests ending talks on Turkey joining EU

Turkey scolds Austria in EU membership dispute
Turkey angrily rejects Austrian suggestions that its membership talks with the EU should be ended following the crackdown since a failed coup.
Austria’s Chancellor Christian Kern on Wednesday called on the European Union to end membership talks with Turkey in the wake of a massive government crackdown following a failed coup.
Renzi: ‘Italian judges do not answer to Erdogan’
Rome and Ankara bickered yesterday (2 August) over an Italian investigation into accusations that Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan’s son Bilal laundered money.
BBC Türkçe, gazeteport and Diken news sites’ articles of probe into Bilal Erdoğan in Italy have been blocked.
The United States has not made any decision on whether to extradite Fethullah Gülen, the prime suspect behind the July 15 coup attempt according to Ankara, a U.S. official has told the Hürriyet Daily News
Turkey’s president President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Tuesday (2 August) blamed Western countries for “supporting” the 15 July coup which left more than 270 people dead.
Erdogan Says West Supports Terrorism
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey accused the West of supporting terrorism while criticizing his actions after an attempted coup against him last month.
The Scale of Turkey’s Purge Is Nearly Unprecedented
How the Turkish president’s sweeping purge of political opponents would look if Americans were targeted at a similar scale.
Turkey coup accused ‘traced via messaging app’
Thousands of people accused of taking part in an attempted coup have been traced via a messaging app, a senior Turkish official tells Reuters.
nytimes.com – The Editorial Board

Shaken by a failed coup attempt, Turkey ‘s government and many of its citizens are desperate for someone to blame. Instead of undertaking a thorough investigation of the facts, though, they have accused the United States of complicity in the

foreignpolicy.com – Peter Rough – May 29, 2014, 5:16 PM

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the secular Turkish Republic that replaced the Islamic Ottoman Empire, died in 1938, but Turks still define themselves as pro- or anti-Ataturk — though women need not say anything because their…

Turkey coup plotters’ use of ‘amateur’ app helped unveil their network

Turkish authorities identified thousands of undercover Gülenist operatives, whom they blame for the failed coup, after cracking messaging app ByLock

Yes, it’s a fact that Thorbjorn Jagland, secretary-general of the Council of Europe, will be the first European official to pay a visit to Ankara since the July 15 coup attempt when he comes on Aug. 3
The famous and proudly militaristic Turkish proverb, “Every Turk is born a soldier,” now perhaps should go with a suffix line, “But some plot coups and kill.”
nytimes.com – Stephen Kinzer – Aug 3, 5:46 AM

The sweeping purges and mass arrests since last month’s failed military coup in Turkey have confirmed many of the worst fears about President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government. They are the most recent in a long history of abuses. Over the last few

foreignaffairs.com – Aug 2, 8:18 PM

Two weeks after the failed Turkish coup attempt, there are still questions about the full extent of the plot and who, exactly, was involved. Still, it is possible to make some educated guesses. The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has

How the Coup Attempt Has Strained U.S.-Turkey Relations

After last month’s attempted military coup, the Turkish government is accusing the United States of supporting the military’s failed takeover. Ceylan Yeginsu, The New York Times’s Istanbul reporter, explains the tension between the countries.
Senior American military officers at Incirlik Air Base scrambled to figure out what was happening, and reverberations were felt directly at the installation.

Turkey’s clash of Islamists: Erdogan vs Gülen

What does the power struggle between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and powerful Islamic cleric Fethullah Gülen mean for Turks who want democracy?

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Credit: AP Photo/Kayhan Ozer Presidential Press Service, via AP Pool. All rights reserved.Turkey is in crisis.

Engineering an uprising: what the democracy rallies in Turkey tell us

Since this initial mobilisation and the thwarting of the coup, the Turkish government has done all it can to sustain the momentum behind what it describes as a kind of popular uprising.

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Europe rights official urges Turkey to heed rule of law

The most senior European official to visit Turkey since last month’s “outrageous” attempted coup urges Turkey to act according to the rule of law.
None of the July 15 coup plotters is a Kemalist, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said in a Justice and Development Party (AKP) parliamentary group meeting on Aug. 2
Political reconciliation cannot be created by excluding the will of some 6 million citizen, Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Figen Yüksekdağ has said, lashing out at the ruling and other opposition parties which have reached a common ground of solidarity against the July 15 coup attempt with the initiative of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Closed Universities in Numbers
15 of the 193 universities have been closed. There were 56,703 students and 2,808 academics at the closed universities.

The response to the failed coup in Turkey two and a half weeks ago has been swift, ruthless and wide-ranging.

Turkey, the EU and the death penalty: a chequered history

The abolition of the death penalty has been arguably the most symbolic result of Turkey’s EU accession process. To see it revoked would be a sad, backwards step for Turkey and for the EU.

Turkish President Erdogan meets Jean-Claude Juncker. PAimages/Virginia Mayo. All rights reserved.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has expressed his regret for helping the Fethullah Gülen organization in the past and not being able to show the group’s real face to the people of Turkey
President Erdoğan has said, “I am saying frankly that I aided them though I personally disagree with many of their ideas. We thought we had a common feature. My god, my nation forgive me”.
What we may expect from recent Wikileaks on Turkish politics

How is it that socio-political disruptions in Turkey consistently boost the power of the ruling party?

Supporters of the AKP hold the portraits of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and Recep Tayyip Erdogan at Ataturk Airport, Istanbul. Thanassis Stavrakis /Press Association. All rights reserved. In his latest book, The Uprising, “Bifo” Berardi (2012) borrows some concepts from one of the most important figures in the study of cybernetics, Norbert Wiener, in order to describe the prevailing social impasse: instead of engendering a radical transformation or revolutionary upheaval, systemic disruptions in the social field increasingly consolidate and even give a boost to the power of the dominant paradigm, process, or group.

Turkey’s ‘Purge’ or ‘Purification’?
After the July 15 coup attempt in Turkey failed thanks to a massive response to protect democracy that united the media and the opposition, too, thousands of arrests and dismissals triggered a debate.

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Thursday, August 4, 2016

Journalism agenda: “A guide for journalists covering the #Rio2016 Olympics

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Journalists headed to Rio? Here’s how to stay safe and find new reporting angles for your coverage
‘We’re looking at how we can do things differently now that a lot of people are doing things like us’

Pop-up newspapers are a thing, and this anti-Brexit paper is killing it

LONDON — In the wake of the Brexit vote and the ensuing political madness that has consumed the UK for the past month, a curious story of success has emerged in the midst of the chaos.

Here’s a bright spot for those anxious about the future viability of local news businesses: North Carolina-based Charlotte Agenda says it’s on track to pull in $850,000 in revenue this year, higher than it expected. Oh, and it’s both growing and profitable.

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Eurosphere agenda: “Record number of EU terror attacks recorded in 2015…

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Record number of EU terror attacks recorded in 2015

A record number of terrorist attacks were planned, foiled or carried out in European Union countries last year, with the UK reporting the highest number of attacks.
The European Union and the United States among other heavy-weight countries have rejected a UN proposal to resettle 10% of the world’s refugees annually as part of a new global effort to tackle the worst refugee crisis since World War II

At a first cut, the 23 June referendum result has been the clearest possible vindication of the many years of concerted action by British Eurosceptics: on a high turnout, a majority of people voted to leave the EU, even if many of them wouldn’t have particularly described themselves as Eurosceptics.

‘Corbyn-mania’: cult of personality or political movement?

Why have thousands of people seemingly have vested their political hopes in a single figurehead?

Corbyn speaks to the crowd at a rally. Photo: Rick Findler / PA Wire/Press Association Images. All rights reserved.There are two narratives about the current turmoil surrounding the Labour Party leadership. While it would be beyond naïve to rule out the possibility that there is some intentional misrepresentation going on, it is nonetheless important to recognise that some actors at least are genuinely at cross purposes in how they understand the terrain. This matters because this debate touches upon underlying questions about democracy, sovereignty and citizenship, which we ignore at our peril.

We must not fall prey to the idea that Brexit is the start of an “unravelling” of the EU, write Enrico Letta, Yves Bertoncini and other members of the Jacques Delors Institute.
Britain will no longer take on the rotating EU presidency as planned next year, surrendering the role in the wake of the Brexit vote, Prime Minister Theresa May’s office said Wednesday (20 July).

There’s silver lining in Brexit for the EU’s climate and energy plans

A lot of good can come out of the Brexit vote if the European Commission makes it 100% clear that continued action on climate change and energy savings are crucial issues which transcend politics and pro or anti-EU sentiment, writes Brook Riley.

Boris Johnson: We are leaving the European Union, not Europe

“We have to give effect to the will of the people and leave the European Union, but that in no sense means that we are leaving Europe,” Britain’s new foreign minister Boris Johnson said upon his arrival at the European Council in Brussels on Monday (18 July).

Brexit and the rise of populism

Populist nationalisms are replacing social democracy and Christian democracy across Europe. But we cannot, and should not, attempt to resuscitate these traditional models of governance.

Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias in the Spanish parliament. Photo: Francisco Seco / AP/Press Association Images.

The Boris Johnson question: how the UK’s foreign secretary is viewed abroad

Some international observers are amused, but others regard Britain’s top diplomat as a new and unnecessary problem

International reaction to the appointment of Boris Johnson as foreign secretary has been overwhelmingly negative. The news prompted incredulity in stunned global capitals, with few finding anything good to say about Britain’s new top diplomat. Some even wondered whether the story was a joke.

The BBC rounds up some of Boris Johnson’s on-the-record “gaffes” (which is to say, unforgivable racist garbage), from calling African people “piccaninnies” to praising Bashar Al-Assad.

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson booed at French Embassy

The new Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, has been booed by some of the guests at a French Embassy reception in London.

Who’s who in the Brexit government?

Britain’s new Prime Minister Theresa May yesterday announced six members of her cabinet, the nucleus of the ministerial team that will helm the negotiations to take the UK out of the European Union.

Foreign diplomats and politicians seem to be going through different “stages of grief” in dealing with the appointment of Boris Johnson as U.K. foreign minister — laughter, incredulity and now rage.

Reshuffle of EU presidencies expected very shortly

The rotating six-month presidencies of the Council of the EU will be reshuffled next week, as a result of Brexit, diplomats told EurActiv.
A European Commission official has said that Russian propaganda was now powerful in all EU member states – but in some of them Moscow barely needed to make the effort, as local politicians were delivering its messages.

Afterbrexit: Chief xenophobe Boris Johnson now Foreign Secretary; Goldman-Sachs hires Barroso

Boris Johnson led the Brexit campaign with a lot of dog-whistles about dirty foreign muck stealing our jobs and clogging up our NHS, before being stabbed in the back by Michael Gove and bowing out of politics, until, today, he was made Foreign Secretary by Theresa May, the UK’s new Pry Minister.

Britain was rocked on Wednesday by the shocking appointment of former London mayor and prominent Brexit campaigner Boris Johnson to the role of foreign secretary.

For the first time in the history of the monetary union, member states are facing sanctions because of their budget deficits. After postponing the decision on Spain and Portugal several times, the EU finance ministers agreed to launch sanctions proceedings on Tuesday. The Commission will now decide what form the sanctions will take. Does this disciplinary action make sense?

Britain’s new foreign secretary Boris Johnson: a career of insults and gaffes

From likening Hillary Clinton to ‘a sadistic nurse in a mental hospital’ to writing a poem in which the president of Turkey has sex with a goat, Johnson has made a name for himself around the world

When our watchdog becomes a bloodthirsty attackdog, be wary

Jeremy Corbyn has been variously described in the British press as unelectable, comic and highly dangerous. How should a healthy democracy respond to politicians pursuing a different kind of democracy?

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21. Türkiye’de İnternet Konferansı 3-5 Kasım 2016’da…

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21. Türkiye’de İnternet Konferansı
3-5 Kasım  2016
TED   Üniversitesi
Kolej, Ankara

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Türkiye’de İnternet ile ilgili grupları biraraya getirerek İnternet’i tüm boyutlarıyla tanıtmak, geliştirmek, tartışmak, İnternet teknolojileri aracılığı ile toplumsal verimliliği artırmak ve toplumun dikkatini olabildiğince bu yöne çekmek amaçlarıyla,  1995’den beri her yıl  ulusal boyutta bir konferans düzenlenmiştir. Konferansa bildiri sunma, eğitim semineri verme ve  tartışma grubu/açık oturum düzenleme şeklinde aktif katılım davet edilmektedir. Konferans kayıt yaptıran  dinleyecilere açıktır ve ücretsizdir.

Bu yıl  “4. Sanayi Devrimi”, “İnternet Ekonomisi”, “Bilgi Toplumu ve Bilgi Ekonomisi”,  “İnternet ve Demokrasi”, “Mobil Ağlar”, “Sosyal Ağlar”, “Yeni Medya”, “Siber Güvenlik”, “Bireysel Güvenlik ve Mahremiyet”, “”Medya/Bilgi Okuryazarlığı” konuları öne çıkacaktır. Türkiye İnternetinin temel ve güncel konularını kapsayan panel ve oturumlar
yapılacaktır. İnternet Başarı öykülerini anlatan oturumlar da planlanmaktadır. Bilgi Toplumu, İnternet ve Güncel sorunların tartışılacağı oturumlar ve
geniş toplum kesimlerine hitab edecek seminerler planlanmaktadır.

İnternet, Demokrasi, Katılım ve Saydamlık
Mobil Yaşam/Ağlar, Teknolojiler ve Uygulamalar
Bilgi Ekonomisi ve Bilgi Toplumu
4. Sanayi Devrimi
İnternet Ekonomisi
Siber Güvenlik
Sosyal Ağlar: Analiz ve Toplumsal Etkileri
Sosyal Ağlar ve İş Dünyası
Sosyal Ağlar ve Eğitim
Yeni Medya
Gizlilik, Bireysel Haklar ve Kişisel Veriler
Fikri Haklar, Sayısal Ürünlerin Paylaşımı
Bilgi Toplumu Stratejisi ve Eylem Planı
e-devlet ve Etkin Devlet:  Türkiye  Deneyimleri
Açık Veri, Açık Devlet
Wiki, RSS, Mushup ve Birlikte Çalışma Ortamları
İnternet’in Yasal Boyutları
İnternet Yasakları, Sansür ve Zararlı İçerik
İnternet ve Medikal Bilişim
E-eğitim, Eğitim Teknolojileri, Fatih Projesi
e-tarım, e-çevre, e-ulaşım
İnternet Yönetişimi ve STK’lar
Bilgi/Medya okuryazarlığı
E-iş, M iş ve Yeni Ekonomi
Yeni  Nesil İnternet: internet2, ipv6, Gelecek İnternet
Telekomda Serbestleşme ve Düzenleyici Yapılar
Elektronik Yayıncılık ve Basın
E-kütüphanecilik, Enformasyon kaynakları, İndeksleme ve Tarama
Özgür Yazılım, Açık Kaynak, e-devlet ve e-türkiye
Araştırma/İnovasyon Ağları,  7. Çerçeve ve Teknoparklar
İnternetde Güvenlik: Virus, Spam, Bireysel Savunma
Yeni İnternet   Teknolojileri, Grid ve Bulut Hesaplama
Elektronik ve Mobil İmza
İnternet  ve Sanat
İnternet’te Türkçe Kullanımı ve İçerik
Dünyada ve Türkiye’de  İnternet’in Altyapısı
Web 2.0, Web 3.0 ve Nesnelerin İnterneti
Semantic Web
Hesaplama ve Tarama Motorları
Çocuklar için Güvenli İnternet
İnternet ve Reklamcılık
Artırılmış Gerçeklik
Digital Aktivizim
IPTV ve VOIP
Özgür Web Teknolojileri
Siber Kültür, Sayısal Bölünme, KİEM ve icafe
Nefret Söylemi, Unutulma Hakkı

Konferans dili Türkçe’dir.
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Wednesday, August 3, 2016

A case study in verification for news comes from Turkey… Journalism agenda…

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It was around 10:15 pm in Turkey on July 15th when messages started to go around about “strange events taking place in Istanbul and Ankara”. A terrorist attack, some said. A coup attempt, said others. It quickly became clear that the latter were correct.

Within the hour, it had been confirmed by Prime Minister Binali Yildirim. Soon after, the state broadcaster was taken over and an anchor forced to read the coup leaders’ message of martial law. The official channels of news were shut down, and the world was left, in the most part, to trawl social media to find out what was going on.

When Seung-Hui Cho opened fire at staff and students on the campus of Virginia Tech in 2007, graduate student Jamal Albarghouti didn’t run. In an act which is now a mainstay of breaking news events, he pulled out his cameraphone and started filming.

One year since it built an editorial social media team, The Economist learned a key lesson: collaboration at the point of creation drives success

Is “old media” dead? Call off the funeral arrangements, according to a survey of more than 200 reporters and editors by Oglivy Public Relations.

Oglivy PR found that while 54 percent of respondents agreed that new platforms such as social media were growing in importance for managing newsrooms, 72 percent still believe that traditional media outlets are the most trusted news sources.

Rukmini Callimachi of The New York Times is arguably the best reporter on the world’s most important beat—terrorism and jihadists. Here’s how she does it.

5 tips for using analytics in the newsroom

Three metrics experts highlight the importance of matching the numbers you monitor to your strategy and share more tips for journalists working with analytics

5 lessons from eyewitness conversations in breaking news

When big news breaks, eyewitnesses always have the best stories, the first-hand accounts, the as-it-happened photos that news organisations crave. And now, thanks to social media, reporters can track down and contact someone at the scene of an event in an instant, even on the other side of the world.

The mobile-first footage aims to put viewers in the shoes of refugees travelling to Europe during the crisis
Check out this encrypted instant messaging and voice calling app for Android and iOS
Can livestream video and eyewitness media ever replace the foreign bureau? A look at how media reporting on global conflicts is changing

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