Tuesday, September 29, 2015

For the record, Turkey’s Erdoğan defended Saudi organization of Hajj after at least 700 hundred died…

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan speaks out to defend Saudi Arabia in the wake of the Hajj tragedy that left more than 750 pilgrims dead, saying ‘it is not right to have the approach of putting the blame on Saudi Arabia’
AKP Deputy Chair Şahin has claimed that Turkey could do a better job than Saudi Arabia at organizing the Hajj pilgrimage, hours before President Erdoğan condemned “aggressive attitude” toward Saudi Arabia.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli has criticized President Erdoğan over his recent remarks which displayed a policy shift to Turkey endorsing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad taking a role in the transition process of the war-torn country.

Turkey’s HDP burns bridges with interim gov’t led by AKP

Two ministers from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), EU Minister Ali Haydar Konca and Development Minister Müslüm Doğan, resigned Sept. 22 from their posts in an interim cabinet in a sign of growing tension over the ongoing conflict between Turkey’s security forces and militants of the outlawed PKK
The number of foreigners visiting Turkey decreased by 2.88 percent in August to 5.13 million compared to the same period of 2014, according to Tourism Ministry data compiled by Reuters, as tourism sector players warned of further losses

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Cengiz Aktar: Batık devlet – Failed state

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Batık devlet – Failed state

AB’nin kurucu babalarından Jean Monnet’nin “insanlar olmadan hiçbir şey yapılamaz, kurumlar olmadan hiçbir şey kalıcı olmaz” sözüne sık sık atıfta bulunurum. Sözü memlekete uyarlarsak son koalisyon hükümeti ile ilk dönem AKP’nin AB esinli reform çalışmalarının ardında elbet de belli insanlar vardı. Ve Monnet’nin sözü uyarınca o siyasetçiler yine AB esinli kurumların da mimarı oldular. Birey ve toplum hayatının her yönünü kapsayan ve sistemin ihtiyacı olan ciddî ve dönüştürücü kurumsal reformlar ilk defa, 2000’lerin başındaki koalisyon hükümetinin çalışmalarıyla uygulamaya kondu. “Derviş reformları” olarak literatüre geçen çalışmalar özellikle, 1994, 1999, 2001 krizleri sonucunda altüst olan makroekonomik dengeleri yeniden sağlamakta işlevsel oldular. Bu sıradan bir düzeltme değildi. Kurumların, özerklik, şeffaflık ve hesapverebilirlik ilkeleri temelinde düzenleyici işlevlerini yasallaştırarak güvence altına alıyor ve Cumhuriyet tarihinde ilk defa çağdaş bir yönetim zihniyetinin önünü açıyordu. Çaba, yeniden başlamış bulunan AB üyelik sürecinin ivmesiyle katlanarak büyüdü, ekonominin çok ötesine geçti. Yatay ve dikey denge/denetleme mekanizmalarını geliştirerek sistemi baştan aşağıya dönüştürmeye başladı. İlk dönem AKP hükümeti 2005’e kadar Türkiye köhnemiş mevzuatını çağdaş normlara uyumlandırdı ve yeni mevzuatın büyük bölümünü uygulamaya başladı. O ilke, norm ve standartlar görülmemiş bir idarî ve hukukî dönemin başlamasına da önayak oldular.

 

Ancak 2005’ten sonra, yani yapılan reformlar sayesinde AB ile üyelik müzakerelerine başlandıktan sonra o güne kadar yapılan reformlar daha ileri aşamaya taşınmadıkları gibi, kazanımlar birer birer geri alınmaya başlandı. Reformcu insanlar kurdukları kurumları yıkmaya başladılar. 2001’den itibaren doğru istikamette dönüşmeye başlayan temel devlet kurumları Adliye, Askeriye, Hariciye, İlmiye, Maliye ve Mülkiye itibarsızlaştırıldılar, kurumsal hafızaları boşaltıldı ve kurum olmaktan çıktılar. Bir memleketin başına gelebilecek, beyin göçü ile birlikte en büyük felâkettir. Bugün yegâne siyasî hedef her türlü danışma, oydaşma, denge, denetim ve düzenlemeden muaf “iş bitirebilmek”. Bu yozlaşmanın maalesef toplumda da ciddî bir karşılığı var.

 

Gün geçmiyor ki, akla hayale sığmayacak bir uygulama gündeme düşmesin. Ancak vahim olan tamamen köşeye sıkışmış kedi tepkileri veren iktidarın abuk sabuk tasarrufları değil bu tasarruflara ağzını açmayan, HDP dışında siyasetle birkaç mecra ve merci dışında toplumun duyarsızlığı. Ya da kokuşmuşluğu… Bunun memlekete büyük bedeli olacak, şimdiden oluyor. En büyük bedel bu kokuşma halinden kurtuluş reçetesi olarak pazarlanacak veErdoğan’ın tek başına demir yumrukla adına “istikrar” dediği itaatkâr, huzurlu ve faşist toplum düzenini inşa edecek olmasıdır. Bu gidişata karşı çıkacak olanlar HDP ve toplumun farklı katmanlarından fışkıran itirazlardır. Nefeslerinin yetip yetmediğini göreceğiz.

 

Dünyada Türkiye’ye olan ilgi ise bir daha kolay kolay geri gelmeyecek şekilde bitti. 2004-2005’ten itibaren AB ivmesi ve AKP’nin reformist damarı sayesinde Türkiye ilk kez İslâm diniyle demokrasinin bağdaşamayacağı ezberine dünya çapında bir sorgulama alanı açtı. Oryantalist gözlüklerini çıkaran araştırmacılar, Türkiye’ye antipati ya da sempatiyle değil empatiyle yaklaşmaya başladılar. Türkiye ilk kez dünyada sözü geçen gerçek bir ortak olmaya başladı. İlm-i siyasa “Hıristiyan Demokrat” kavramının yanında “Müslüman Demokrat” kavramını yerleştirmeye başladı. Siyasî ve içtimaî reformların yanında ekonomik reformlar bu değerlendirmeleri her geçen gün doğrular biçimde ilerledi. Öyle ki sadece Batı değil her yerde Türkiye meraklıları ve uzmanları belirdi. Bu gidişat bugün itibariyle tamamen akamete uğramıştır. Türkiye’nin gündemi dünyanın gündeminden temel konularda zıt istikamette ilerliyor artık. Bunun Batı dışı arayışla da alâkası yok. Doğu’da da Türkiye’nin resmî “değerli yalnızlığı” ayarında bir gidişat yok. İran’a bakmak kâfi. Dünya devlet ve toplumları her geçen gün birbirlerine olan ihtiyacı idrak ediyorlar. AKP Türkiyesi ise “Dünya Türk ya da AKP’li Olsun” diyor.

 

Tepeden tırnağa, devletinden toplumuna çürümeden kokuşmaya doğru ilerleyen Türkiye’ye İngilizcedeki failed state tanımı yakışmıyor mu? 

Bu yazı ilk olarak Taraf’ta yayınlandı. Yazarın izniyle burada da yayınlanıyor. 

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The #Aspendos drama. Only ISIS can do worse than Turkey in damaging historical heritage…

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Recent restoration work at the historical amphitheater of Aspendos has sparked outrage among tourists and cultural associations, as white marble has been used on the ancient site’s stairs and seats rather than stones of the original texture and color
A bird’s-eye view of Istanbul’s city walls reveals the risk of devastation in the event of an earthquake for the 22-kilometer fortification due to neglect and dense residential areas around the structure
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has hailed the progress made in making İmam Hatip religious vocational high schools into more active and visible institutions during his term in power
The Raft Economy: Reporter’s Notebook
Ben Hubbard describes his experiences in Izmir, Turkey, where he reported on a “raft economy” that has followed a wave of migrants.
The list of journalists charged with insulting the President Erdoğan gets longer each day. Five journalists from Evrensel Daily have been sued lately.
Turks trust teachers and health workers the most while judges, politicians, religious leaders and journalists are among the lowest trusted professions in society, according to a recent study
A bull, which had been bought in Turkey’s western province of Kocaeli to be sacrificed as part of an Islamic ritual for the Feast of Sacrifice, escaped and ran for its life toward Istanbul
As Germany takes in record numbers of people fleeing Syria and other war zones, its large Turkish community is warning the country not to “repeat the mistakes of the past”.
Nearly 2,000 Syrian migrants have been holding a sit-in in the northwestern border province of Edirne for more than a week in the hopes of crossing to Greece, after they were prevented by security forces from traveling to European countries.
The row began last week when Reşat Kasap, the mayor of the eastern Black Sea town of Rize, said a statue of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Turkish Republic, in the town’s main square could be removed.

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Cyberculture agenda: “Internet Society Statement on the 2015 UN Sustainable Development Summit

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Language English
Date:
Fri, 09/25/2015

Internet Society President and CEO Kathryn Brown issued the following statement:

This week, the United Nations is hosting the Sustainable Development Summit (SDS) where the international community will embrace a global agenda to alleviate poverty, expand health and education, and preserve our planet for future generations.  This global Agenda is about opportunity – the opportunity to improve the lives of people worldwide through development and partnership.

First issue of new feminist hacker zine

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Audrey writes, “The Recompiler is a new feminist hacker magazine dedicated to learning about technology in a fun and inclusive way. The first issue of the magazine is now online, with articles about glitchy art, 80s tech, SSL bugs, and the flaws in DNS.”

The Women Who Won Net Neutrality
As reported by the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, a privacy agency of the French government has rejected an appeal by Google that the ‘right to be forgotten’ be limited to just European versions of the search engine.
4chan
4chan has been sold to Japanese messaging board 2Channel‘s founder, by 4chan’s Christopher Poole (also known as ‘moot’), after 12 years and 2 billion posts on the site. Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2Channel, acquired the site which now sees more than 20 million monthly users and will act as president of the site. 4chan has had no venture capital money and never employed any staff full-time. According to The New York Times, 2Channel was ironically the inspiration for Poole to create the message board.

Ahmed Mohamed Is Silicon Valley’s New Hero

Ahmed Mohamed Is Silicon Valley’s New Hero

The head honchos of Silicon Valley’s biggest companies are vying for a visit from the world’s most famous teen Maker.

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https://youtu.be/nckRlLlyfecZomg, the kid is charming. He reveals that he’s switching high-schools, thanks his supporters, discussing his inventing and tinkering, and talks about his delight at being invited to the White House.

Facebook Retargeting Rising (Report)

The retail churches of the cult of Apple

Apple Store Church

ppausAside from promoting copyright reform, Pirate parties worldwide are fierce defenders of online privacy.

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Monday, September 28, 2015

As Turkish gov’s full frontal attack on media freedom continues, “British lawyers warn of human rights violations in Turkey…

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British lawyers warn of human rights violations in Turkey

Report alleges serious setback for democracy as 40,000 removed from jobs and police and media figures imprisoned

Turkey’s government is inflicting “systematic human rights violations” on its judiciary, police and media, according to a scathing report by senior British lawyers that was commissioned by one of president Erdogan’s exiled opponents.

Turkish judge Işıl Karakaş, who was recently elected as the new vice-president of the European Court of Human Rights, has said Turkey’s image as a country that tolerates “torture” has been replaced with the image of a country that does not protect the freedom of press

Turkish Journalist Association condemns Tivibu’s censorship of TV channels critical of gov’t

The Turkish Journalist Association (TGC) has condemned the cancelation of the airing of a number of TV channels that are critical of the government, including Bugün TV, Samanyolu Haber and Mehtap TV, by Tivibu, an online TV streaming service provided by TTNet
Turkish-Armenian journalist Hayko Bağdat says Ankara Mayor Melih Gökçek, who took Bağdat to court for using “Armenian” and “disgusting” to describe Gökçek, is in fact “Armenian,” according to Gökçek’s definition
Turkey’s Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş gave signs of a potential coalition with Republican People’s Party (CHP) at a speech during his visit to Germany
Two ministers from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), EU Minister Ali Haydar Konca and Development Minister Müslüm Doğan, resigned Sept. 22 from their posts in an interim cabinet in a sign of growing tension over the ongoing conflict between Turkey’s security forces and militants of the outlawed PKK
With only weeks to go to the Nov. 1 snap election, political tension in Turkey has reached a new high as of Sept. 22, with two ministers from the HDP resigning from their posts in a cabinet led by major partner of the interim government, AKP
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has hailed the strength of his relationship with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan both in professional and personal terms, while denying the existence of any pro-PM or pro-president factions within the Justice and Development Party (AKP)
A Turkish prosecutor has demanded 18 years in prison for a private over the fatal shooting of 19-year-old Medeni Yıldırım during a protest against the building of a new police post in Diyarbakır’s Lice district in June 2013

Turkish columnist arrested for ‘being a member of an armed terror group’

Four suspects, including a columnist for daily Bugün, have been arrested as part of an investigation into an alleged terrorist organization
Political parties in Turkey have announced their MP candidates for the crucial Nov. 1 election, providing a number of hints for observers who are wondering whether the outcome will be dramatically different than the June 7 polls.

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