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Sunday, August 9, 2015

Yanko Tsvetkov’s Atlas of Prejudice… Eurosphere agenda…

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New EU cybersecurity rules to hit US internet firms

EurActiv.com

Large US-based internet firms such as Cisco, Google and Amazon will be subject to a new EU cybersecurity law forcing them to adopt tough security measures and possibly report serious breaches to national authorities, according to a document seen by Reuters.

Hollande and Tsipras want Greek bailout agreed by late August

EurActiv.com

A new bailout should be agreed by late August, Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and French President François Hollande said on Thursday (6 August). Greece is in negotiations with the European Union and International Monetary Fund for as much as €86 billion in fresh loans to stave off financial ruin and economic collapse.

MAIN FOCUS: Duda sworn in as Polish president | 07/08/2015

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Andrzej Duda of the national conservative PiS was sworn in as Poland’s new president in the Sejm on Thursday. Some commentators fear a shift to the right while others believe Duda will surprise his detractors with a strong presidency.

Hungary’s refugee policy: fencing off the country

open Democracy News Analysis – by Tamás Ibolya

The rapidly increasing influx of asylum-seekers poses a huge challenge to Hungary. The government responds with a complete lack of solidarity, massive demagoguery and arm-twisting in Brussels.

The Syriza problem: radical democracy and left governmentality in Greece

open Democracy News Analysis – by Stathis Gourgouris

Syriza’s extraordinary problem – which would not be faced by any other political party in government – was to alter internal institutional frameworks under conditions of external institutional assault.

Congress of Syriza for the Greek election campaign, January 2015. Demotix/Kostis Ntantamis. All rights reserved.Although the history of the Left has produced an extraordinary theoretical legacy, which continues to be the nucleus of almost all radical thinking, it has nonetheless left a trail of extraordinary failures in practice.

Reykjavik turns street into rainbow

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

Reykjavik’s central street is painted in rainbow colours as its Gay Pride event begins.

Hungary races to build border fence as migrants keep coming

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

Hungary’s race to erect fence to keep out migrants

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Saturday, August 8, 2015

End of ceasefire cost in one month: 24 Turkish security officers dead…

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PKK militants kill 24th Turkish security officer in one month

A Turkish police officer was killed and three others were injured in an attack on an armored police vehicle in southeastern Şırnak province late Aug. 7, increasing the death toll in PKK attacks to 24 in one month.

HDP co-chair urges PKK and Turkish gov’t to resume ceasefire

Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş has called on the Turkish government and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to resume ceasefire.

Unarmed civilians killed in Turkish airstrikes in northern Iraq: HDP report

Unarmed civilians were killed in a military airstrike by Turkey in the Zergele village of Iraqi Kurdistan, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has said in a report, denying Ankara’s claims to the contrary

Turkey’s new draconian measures on right of assembly challenged by lawyers

Turkey’s Union of Turkish Bar Associations (TBB) has appealed the Council of State for the suspension and annulment of the execution of a new regulation by the Interior Ministry that restricts the right to assembly and demonstration

Demirtaş points to Ankara for Kurdish peace process solution

After meetings with the leaders of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s (PKK) European branch in the Belgian capital, Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş has said the address to solve the Kurdish peace process was the Turkish capital rather than Brussels

Turkish Armed Forces Fined 823 Euros for Room Confinement

Bianet :: English

A specialist sergeant appealed to the Constitutional Court after issued room confinement. Turkish Armed Forces was fined 823 Euros.

Police tear gas lawyers at Istanbul’s Çağlayan Courthouse

Istanbul police used tear gas on Aug. 7 against a group of lawyers who had attempted to read a press statement about lawyer Deniz Sürgüt, who is under arrest in the southeastern province of Şırnak

PKK’s senior militant leader challenges Turkey

Turkey’s army is welcome to attempt to destroy the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) but it is unlikely to succeed, a senior leader of the outlawed militant group claimed.

Turkey, Its People and ISIL in Four Stories

The Istanbulian by Emre Kızılkaya

Turkey’s fight against the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) isexpected to intensify soon.

The United States has already conducted its first drone strike into northern Syriafrom a base in Turkey, the Pentagon said yesterday, ahead of what Ankara described as a “comprehensive battle” against ISIL there.

Nationalist MP blames president for failure of coalition talks

A senior lawmaker from the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) has blamed President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for the possible failure of the coalition-making process between the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Republican People’s Party (CHP) while noting the difficulty of organizing early elections

Environmentalists probed for hindering mining work in Turkey’s northeast

An investigation has been launched against six people who allegedly blocked off a road in several upland areas in the Black Sea province of Artvin to prevent mining activities, which several rights groups and environmental organizations say will destroy the region’s ecosystem

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Saturday, June 13, 2015

Turkish Foreign Ministry denies but more documents appear about Turkey’s “Dirty Operation”

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Turkey: Cumhuriyet, Turkish 007 drivers for IS in Syria

ANSAmed–Jun 11, 2015

The title on Cumhuriyet’s front page today is ‘Kirli Operasyon’, ‘Dirty operation’. Bypassing the line of combat between Kurdish fighters and terrorist jihadists in …

Turkey providing electricity to ISIL-held Syria town: Report
Press TV–31 minutes ago

Turkey denies report of sending weapons, fighters to ISIL
International–Today’s Zaman–Jun 11, 2015

Turkey says Syria-bound weapons claims part of “defamation campaign”

Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman denied allegations of Turkey sending weapons to Syria and allowing the crossing of fighters into the war-torn country.

European Commission: Open new Turkey-EU chapter

The EU’s executive body has submitted a letter to the European Council, proposing opening the Economic and Monetary Policy chapter in accession talks with Turkey

Turkey won’t let Syrians cross border unless there is new humanitarian tragedy

Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş said Turkey has up to now allowed crossings of Syrians through Akçakale, but it will no longer let them enter and will henceforth stop their crossing, as “there is no longer a humanitarian tragedy.”

Turkey, EU conclude prison reform program

Turkey and the European Union have wrapped up a program on harmonizing prison standards, during which 1,000 days of training was given to prisoner officers

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Saturday, June 6, 2015

Just a day before #TurkeyElections Media under pressure while Turkish gov’t opens new riot police and special operations departments…

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Erdoğan’s lawyer demands aggravated life sentence for Turkish journalist over news story

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has filed a criminal complaint against a Turkish newspaper and its editor over a critical news report, asking him to be jailed for life. The move came hours after Erdoğan said the journalist would pay a “heavy price.”

400 intellectuals show support for daily Cumhuriyet, journalist

Some 400 academics and artists have expressed in a signed statement their support to daily Cumhuriyet and its editor-in-chief, Can Dündar

Journalist Özgür Mumcu faces five years in prison for defaming Erdoğan

A journalist for daily Cumhuriyet faces up to four years eight months in prison for “defaming” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Journalists on trial, facing 52 years in prison

Mehmet Baransu, a reporter for the daily Taraf newspaper, and his managing editor, Murat Şevki Çoban, have each gone on trial and are facing up to 52 years in prison for publishing a confidential document about a 2004 National Security Council (MGK) meeting.

19-year-old Gezi victim commemorated on second anniversary in Central Anatolia

Hurriyet Daily News

Ali İsmail Korkmaz, one of the victims of the Gezi Park protests, was commemorated on the second anniversary of the beating that led to his death in the Central Anatolian province of Eskişehir on June 2.

Turkish president Erdoğan wants editor jailed for espionage in video row

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk

President threatens legal action against newspaper and says the journalist would ‘pay a high price’ over arms smuggling report published on its website

Erdogan: Journalist will pay ‘heavy price’
Al-Monitor
On the evening of May 31, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan publicly threatened journalist Can Dundar, the editor-in-chief of daily Cumhuriyet, a secularist paper that is no fan of his. Erdogan was interviewed on TRT, Turkey’s state TV, by three

Gov’t, president using all state means to suppress media: Kılıçdaroğlu

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the government are using all state means to put pressure on the media, the head of Turkey’s main opposition party has said, describing this oppression as having three main legs: The judiciary, the Finance Ministry, and calls to boycott dissident newspapers,

Erdoğan Files an Individual Criminal Complaint against Can Dündar

Bianet :: English

The President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan filed an individual criminal complaint against journalist, Can Dündar.

Turkish Actor Fined 7.080 Turkish Liras for Insulting Erdoğan

Bianet :: English

Actor Barış Atay has been fined 7.080 Turkish Liras for allegedly insulting former PM Recep Tayyip Erdoğan over an article published in daily BirGün. No suspension.

Turkish President Erdoğan wants journalist Dündar in jail for life

Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan’s application to the Ankara Prosecutor’s Office to launch a case demanding up to two life terms in prison against prominent journalist Can Dündar is the latest example of pressure on the media which has been on the rise for the last few weeks as the country is just days ahead of June 7 elections

Turkish gov’t opens new riot police and special operations departments

With only few days until the June 7 parliamentary election, the Turkish government has decided to open new departments of riot police and special operations in several provinces.

The story of the Gezi photo that broke old hostilities

Three people with mutually antagonistic political backgrounds, captured in a single shot and united in their opposition to the ruling AKP: Here is the story of the photo that came to symbolize the Gezi protests as told by one of its protagonists.

European court hears Alevi demands to cover cemevi expenses

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) held a grand chamber hearing on June 3 over a case concerning the rejection of a demand made by a number of Turkish Alevis that the state cover the expenses of cemevis, their houses of worship.

IAEA ‘secret’ report reveals Turkey’s nuclear duties

Turkey has not fulfilled many of the recommendations in a study by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on its bid to acquire nuclear energy, according to a document seen by Hürriyet.

Turkey: Newspaper Under Threat Over Syria Arms Story

hrw.org – Jun 3 – (Istanbul) – A criminal investigation has been opened against a Turkish newspaper and its editor for reporting on a matter of public interest, Human Rights Watch said today. It is the latest assault on media that challenge the government

Turkey’s president threatens newspaper editor: He will ‘pay a heavy price’

Mashable! by Brian Ries

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has threatened the editor of a Turkish newspaper that published photos online of ammo-packed trucks reportedly headed for rebels in Syria, saying the editor will “pay a heavy price.”

VIDEO: Turkey press ‘most sensitive issue’

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

The BBC’s Selin Girit reports on press freedom in Turkey prior to the country’s election.

Doctors strike to protest Kamil Furtun’s murder

Doctors went on a nationwide strike for one day on June 1, as the Turkish Medical Association (TTB) announced late last week it was calling all its member doctors to go on a strike to protest the killing of Kamil Furtun, a thoracic surgeon who was shot dead while on duty on May 29 in a public hospital in the Black Sea province of Samsun.

Lost for 21 Years, His Grave’s Dug Now

Bianet :: English

Detained after his village was burnt, İbrahim Kartay’s grave will be dug after 21 years.

Doctors strike to protest Kamil Furtun’s murder

Turkish Medium-Term Economic Scenarios: The Costs of Policy Stasis

ACTURCA

Roubini Report, June 2015 Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) & Roubini Global Economics by Maya Senussi, Rachel Ziemba and Jonathan Schanzer * The majority of the analysis on Turkey’s general elections, to be held on June 7, has focused on the domestic political ramifications of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s bid to forge a presidential […]

New case opened into 87 suspects for protests on Gezi Park’s first anniversary in Ankara

Prosecutors have opened a case into 87 people, including four lawyers, for their participation in an allegedly illegal demonstration on the first anniversary of the Gezi protests in Ankara.

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