Showing posts with label 2015 at 01:50PM. Show all posts
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Thursday, October 15, 2015

Monday, September 21, 2015

Looks like Ali Babacan, the only capable minister, will continue to do the dirty work….

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Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu convinced former Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan to stand as a candidate for the AKP in the Nov. 1 election on the last day before the deadline for the party to submit their candidate lists to the Supreme Election Board (YSK).
Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek and Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci have differed on Turkey’s reform agenda and economic outlook, amid a slowdown in domestic growth and turbulent international headwinds
Halkbank Chairman Hasan Cebeci left his position last August upon a request from Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu amid claims of nepotism, according to a report by Turkish daily Posta

Thai police claim Bangkok bombing suspect fled to Turkey

A key suspect in last month’s bombing at a Bangkok shrine that killed 20 people has fled to Turkey, Thai police said on Sept. 14

Turkey, Russia ‘freeze Turkish Stream talks’

Turkey and Russia have been unable to make progress in the planned Turkish Stream project and have frozen talks for now, according to high-level Turkish energy officials.
In the video, the men, recently abducted from Baghdad, state their names and call on the Turkish president to fulfill the demands of their abductors
The top Shiite cleric in Iraq on, al-Sistani, calls for the release of 18 Turkish workers kidnapped in Baghdad last week
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have exchanged views on the Syrian refugee crisis as European countries experience an unprecedented human migrant influx.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has leveled an unveiled criticism at Russia for its continued military assistance of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime
A women’s rights advocate from Saudi Arabia and an LGBTI rights group in Turkey have been given this year’s International Hrant Dink Award dedicated to the Armenian journalist murdered in 2007

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Wednesday, September 9, 2015

New Turkey: A staunchly pro-AKP columnist, C.K. threatened columnist Ahmet Hakan with death…

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Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş has condemned the violence that has enveloped the country and resulted in numerous attacks against his party’s buildings, warning perpetrators about the consequences of their actions.
‘We could crush you like a fly if we want. We have been merciful until today and you are still alive,’ said Cem Küçük, a pro-AKP columnist of daily Star, said in an article addressing daily Hürriyet columnist Ahmet Hakan
Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş has become the first senior government official to condemn consecutive violent attacks targeting daily Hürriyet, describing them as “very awful.”
The United States Embassy to Turkey has expressed its concerns over violent demonstrations in Turkey and condemned attacks against political parties and ethnic groups.
A newscaster working for a local TV channel in the Marmara province of Bursa has reported in military uniform, in a move to stand by the security forces fighting against the outlawed PKK in the country’s eastern and southeastern regions.

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The co-chairs of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) have accused the government over increasing violence in Turkey’s southeastern and eastern provinces and against HDP branch offices

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Turkey’s opposition parties and media have both been subjected to slings and arrows thrown by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who suggested the stance they have displayed in the face of rising violence in the country served to favor terrorism
Amid ongoing terror attacks by the outlawed PKK, a group of Turkish nationalists accidentally beat one of its own members on the presumption that he was Kurdish, Turkish media have reported
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and two opposition parties have warned the public of possible provocations in separate statements issued as Turkey moves toward a Nov. 1 election amid a tense climate
Nationalists in the southwestern Turkey have reportedly forced a Kurdish man to kiss a statue of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk as a ‘punishment’ for a social media message he posted
A number of anti-terror marches in Turkey turned violent late Sept. 8, with ultranationalist protesters attacking the headquarters of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in Ankara, as well as its office in another Central Anatolian province.
The Justice and Development Party (AKP) is busy working on its upcoming congress during which its highest decision-making body, the Central Decision and Executive Board (MKYK), is expected to be overhauled. The party is also in the process of drafting its candidate list for the Nov. 1 snap election
We live in days that can be frightening and amusing at the same time, days when the ruling classes defy any limit in self-ridicule, logic or reason.
Only two days after Turkey lost 16 of its soldiers in a heinous attack by the outlawed PKK in Dağlıca in southeastern Hakkari province, 14 police officers were massacred in an explosion on Sept. 8 in eastern Iğdır, on the border with Azerbaijan’s Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic.
Daily Hürriyet’s Istanbul headquarters was pelted with stones by a group of club-swinging pro-AKP supporters on Sept. 8, less than 48 hours after a similar attack and amid a lack of police security. Four gunshots were heard as protesters approached the newspaper.
U.K. Ambassador to Turkey Richard Moore has swiftly condemned an attack against daily Hürriyet’s Istanbul headquarters and Ankara offices, urging respect for the rule of law.
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the leader of the CHP, has issued a call for all Turkish citizens to act with common sense in the face of growing public outrage against escalating acts of terror
Daily Hürriyet sets out to investigate why refugees, many of them children, keep drowning in the waters of the Aegean on their way to Greece.

 

 

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Saturday, August 29, 2015

Cyberculture agenda: 2015 Pioneer Award Winners… More revelations from the Ashley Madison hack…

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Ceremony for Honorees on September 24 in San Francisco

San Francisco – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is pleased to announce the distinguished winners of the 2015 Pioneer Awards: the late international privacy expert Caspar Bowden, the human rights and global security researchers at The Citizen Lab, international Internet access champions Anriette Esterhuysen and the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), and digital community advocate Kathy Sierra.

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Annalee Newitz reports that very few of the female profiles at the hacked site appear to represent real people.

Before hack, Ashley Madison was building an app called ‘What’s Your Wife Worth’

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I think most people can agree that Ashley Madison is pretty terrible. But if it can be believed, the people behind the adulterous dating website were working on something just as appalling. According to the Daily Dot, leaked emails from the Ashley Madison hack last week show that Avid Life Media, the adultery site’s parent company, was working on a an app called ‘What’s Your Wife Worth.’ around 2013. It’s about as obnoxious as it sound.   Basically, the app would allow you to place a dollar value on women as a rating system. It’s somewhat akin other attractiveness-rating sites, just framed under…
Report: Yep, Ashley Madison is full of Fembots
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In the wake of the scandal-inducing Ashley Madison data dump, there has been plenty of skepticism regarding the demographics of the site’s 37 million users. The hackers who orchestrated the dump, Impact Team, have accused Ashley Madison of fraud and claimed 90 to 95 percent of female users are robots created by the company. Ashley Madison and its parent company, Avid Life Media, was also sued by an employee in 2013 who claimed her role was to write thousands of fake profiles. Armed with the data from the dump, Gizmodo parsed through user data to find out whether allegations of…
6 Web design mistakes (and how to correct them)
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It happens to everyone at some point: You look back on a website design and realize that you made a mistake.

Watch Out, Twitch: YouTube Gaming Just Went Live

Watch Out, Twitch: YouTube Gaming Just Went Live

Twitch meets a formidable competitor in YouTube Gaming, which works surprisingly well on its first day out.

Your Dreams of Using Nothing But Emoji Are Realized
Your Dreams of Using Nothing But Emoji Are Realized

Mavis Beacon would be ashamed.

Accountability projects that track deleted tweets from politicians and public officials suffered a critical setback this week when Twitter killed their ability to collect that information. This move comes a few months after the service shut down the U.S. version of Politwoops, the best known of these projects, and extends the ban to some 30 other jurisdictions.

IBM’s lost, glorious fabric design


It’s a pity that IBM hasn’t made this fabric since 1950 or so, because I would rocka pair of pajamas in this pattern (or hell, a big suit!).

Facebook’s M is a Siri-like personal assistant for Messenger

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Facebook’s Vice President of Messaging Products David Marcus today announced a new service called M. M is designed to be your personal assistant, which you can use to ask for recommendations such as gift ideas or restaurants to visit when you’re traveling.

Twitter is heavily male and white, but it has a plan to change all of that

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Twitter has released its diversity numbers, and the company is unsurprisingly skewed toward white males. Overall, Twitter is 66 percent male, and 59 percent white. In tech, the number of males skyrockets to 87 percent, but the percentage of white dips slightly to 56 percent.

The Evolution of the Facebook Algorithm: What it Means for Your Social Strategy

Remember when we could post on Facebook and our fans would actually see it? Those were the days. Let’s get nostalgic and take a look at some of the major updates.

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