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Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
While escalation of violence continues, State of Turkish Judiciary: the Prosecutor, hero of coup cases, flees to Georgia to escape arrest…
A controversial prosecutor who led probes into alleged coup attempts has fled to Georgia with a colleague after an arrest warrant has been issued on both judiciary figures for attempting to overthrow the Turkish government with the corruption investigations of 2013.
Turkish prosecutor who prepared Ergenekon case indictment flees to Armenia – VİDEO
APA
Prosecutor Zekeriya Öz who led probes into the Ergenekon case and prepared an indictment in Turkey has fled the country. Governor of Artvin Kamal Cirit has said Zekeriya Öz’s counterpart Celal Kara too crossed into Armenia from Georgia, APA reports …
Detention warrants issued for 3 prosecutors overseeing Dec. 17 graft probeToday’s Zaman
Warrant issued for Turkish prosecutors who conducted key graft probeBGN NEWS
APA
Prosecutor Zekeriya Öz who led probes into the Ergenekon case and prepared an indictment in Turkey has fled the country. Governor of Artvin Kamal Cirit has said Zekeriya Öz’s counterpart Celal Kara too crossed into Armenia from Georgia, APA reports …
Detention warrants issued for 3 prosecutors overseeing Dec. 17 graft probeToday’s Zaman
Warrant issued for Turkish prosecutors who conducted key graft probeBGN NEWS
“Former prosecutors Zekeriya Öz and Celal Kara who were issued a warrant for the arrest went abroad,” said Governor of Artvin.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is seeking compensation from the co-leader of the Kurdish problem-focused Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), Selahattin Demirtaş, on charges of “gross insults, slander and impeachment.”
KCK demanded negotiations with Abdullah Öcalan should start in a free environment, political prisoners should be released and there should be a reinforced cease-fire.
A deputy from the Republican People’s Party (CHP) has submitted a motion of inquiry to parliament regarding the living conditions of inmates in Turkish prisons and their compliances or disconformities to universal human rights
After two years of relative calm the sounds of war have returned to south-eastern Turkey. The Kurds are worried, but they’re also angry – and many blame Erdoğan
The racket of machine-gun fire rips through the evening silence. Plumes of smoke rise from the surrounding mountains where salvoes of missiles have set forests and farmland ablaze.
The Nusra Front, the Syrian affiliate of Al Qaeda, said it disagreed with plans by Turkey and the United States to clear the Islamic State from an area along the Turkish border.
Nine people died in a series of attacks in Turkey on Monday. The government has blamed most of the violence on the banned Kurdish Workers’ Party PKK. Chaos in the country is most opportune for President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, some commentators write. Others voice disappointment that terror is all the PKK has to offer.
Council of Europe Secretary-General Thorbjørn Jagland has called for a de-escalation of violence in Turkey, amid rising attacks across the country
A member of parliament has claimed that Turkey has handed over six fighters of the People’s Protection Units (YPG), the military wing of Syria’s Democratic Union Party (PYD), blaming the government for committing a war crime
232 Turkish Scholars Call for International Help Facilitating Kurdish Peace Process
Supporters of the Leftist HDP party celebrate making it to the Turkish parliament. (Source: ROARmag)
In Sultanbeyli district of İstanbul, policemen investigating the bombing attack carried out at night in front of the police station were opened fire in the morning. A police and two perpetrators died.
• Topal was attacked after training in Istanbul on Tuesday
• Fenerbahce condemn attack as terrorism
• Fenerbahce condemn attack as terrorism
The Turkish coastguard on August 11 rescued 330 Syrians adrift in the Aegean Sea after failing to reach Greece, as the number of migrants attempting the treacherous passage to Europe surges.
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- Turkey’s new Major General was acquitted of unidentified murders of 13 villagers…
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Journalism agenda: “Azeri journalist dies after beating… “NYT innovations…
A journalist in Azerbaijan who criticised a popular footballer on social media is fatally beaten by football fans.
Julia Haslanger wants to know how much you make.
Last Friday, Haslanger, a graduate student in CUNY’s social journalism program, released Journo Salary Sharer, which asks journalists to anonymously share their salary information in order to help start a conversation about how much people in different positions throughout the journalism world earn.
Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of stories on how news organizations manage their mobile news alerts. Check in each day this week to see how The New York Times, CNN, Breaking News, The Wall Street Journal, and the Detroit Free Press decide which news warrants a push notification, and learn about the process each goes through to send alerts out to their readers. First up: The Times. —LO
If, half a decade ago, you’d been able to put money down in Vegas on The New York Times’ chances of reaching 1 million digital subscribers by 2015, what kind of odds could you have gotten? Longer than longshot. In 2010, when the Timesannounced it would put up a paywall, hardly anyone thought readers would pay for that sort of “commodity” — general news — on the web. TimesSelect, the Times’ first foray into digital paid content in the mid-2000s, had gone bust, and the program’s name served as an easy punchline for the conventional wisdom of the moment.
Since putting up its paywall in 2011, the The New York Times finally has one million subscribers paying for digital content.
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Sunday, August 9, 2015
Anthropology roundup: “Sir Jack Goody, social anthropologist – obituary”
Remember resistance to domination? This was a very popular theme in cultural studies in the late ’90s and early ’00s. Eventually it reached a saturation point where, like an overplayed hit on Top 40 radio, it elicited only eye-rolls. Change the channel, quick! Contributing to this was the fact that it was a snap to find pretty much anywhere plus it would lead to an easy Foucault citation. While in all honesty it did get a tad rote there were also authors who did it right like Scott or (my favorite) De Certaeu.
Anthropology: Less than half of human cultures worldwide use kissing to …
International Business Times UK
Although passionate kissing seems to many of us like a normal way to show your love to – or lust for – a partner, new research has found that this is not the norm in most cultures in the world, but is most prevalent in the Middle East. A study entitled …
Sir Jack Goody, social anthropologist – obituary
Telegraph.co.uk
Goody challenged the narrowness of an anthropological vision limited to local ethnography and non-literate societies. In particular he emphasised the importance of history, rejecting simplistic dichotomies of “the West versus the Rest”, between simple .
We crave sincerity as much as scholarship
How many dead people do you know on Facebook? I know three. Well, maybe two because one was aware that she was dying and took her page down. For the others, death was a surprise, even though in one case it was planned. Plans can be surprises of sorts.
I haven’t yet seen any official announcement from the AAA about the change,1but if you now click on the “Login to use AnthroSource now” link from the top of the AAA website, you will get directed to this glorious webpage. Those who know me will be surprised to learn that I am not being the slightest bit ironic when I say the page is glorious. It truly is. Not only does it look great, but at long last searching through the back catalog of AAA journals is simple and easy. Even better, when you find something you can quickly access the content you are looking for without any hassles. If you are an AAA member you will have access to that content as part of your membership fee and won’t have to use your school’s VPN to get the content you want. Bravo to Wiley and AAA for pulling this off, it really should make AAA membership that much more attractive for everyone.
[This is a paper that was originally published under the title of “Anthropology and the Representation of Recent Migrations from Afghanistan,” as it appeared in Rethinking Refuge and Displacement: Selected Papers on Refugees and Immigrants, Volume VIII, 2000. Arlington, VA: American Anthropological Association. Eds. E. M. Godziak and D. J. Shandy. Pp. 291-321. Given the intense interest in Afghanistan today, this article is made available on this site in the interest of wider accessibility. Copyright remains with the author.]
Encounters with art and design by an anthropologist and curious non-expert in visual culture.
Since starting to work alongside an artist and a designer, I’ve become more aware of ethnographic practice inflected by art and design. There seems to be a growing number of institutional spaces, degree programs, courses, workshops and books devoted to exploring different combinations of art/design aesthetics and ethnography. While audience and aims vary, one can’t help but wonder what it means for there to be a kind mushrooming of art/design inflected methods and outputs (Design Anthropology, Anthropology Design, Design Ethnography, Sensory Ethnography to name a few and see for instance a last year’sANTROPOLOGY + DESIGN series on Savage Minds). While visual anthropology has an extended history, and anthropologists have long been interested in the intersections of aesthetic and cultural production, is there something of a “visualisation of anthropology” (Grimshaw & Ravetz 2005) underway? Is an attention to art and design in anthropology ‘new’ or simply new to me?
But it quickly becomes clear that this is not what Anderson means by anthropology. Nor anyone else that he quotes. He’s talking about a theological understanding of human nature, drawn entirely from scripture and Christian tradition. Not from science.
It was probably doomed from the start: the battlefield marriage of a left-wing academic discipline and the hidebound U.S. Army. The military has now confirmed that the Human Terrain System program, which sent anthropologists into the Afghan combat zone …
It was probably doomed from the start: the battlefield marriage of a left-wing academic discipline and the hidebound U.S. Army. The military has now confirmed that the Human Terrain System program, which sent anthropologists into the Afghan combat zone
The following post was submitted by Hugh Gusterson, a professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at George Washington University. A specialist on nuclear culture, the political economy of violence, and on ethics and the social sciences, Gusterson is the author of Nuclear Rites (University of California Press, 1996) and People of the Bomb (University of Minnesota Press, 2004).
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Sunday, August 2, 2015
Turkish army denies hitting civilians but when remembering Roboski/Uludere…
Turkey’s military on August 2 denied allegations that it hit civilians in the village of Zargala during air strikes and said the target was a shelter for the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants
Two soldiers were killed and 31 injured Aug. 2 in a suicide attack by outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants in the eastern province of Ağrı
Turkey’s efforts to end the decades old Kurdish conflict are ‘going through a fatal breakdown,’ the group overseeing the peace process says
Some of the most successful fighters against the Islamic State are being isolated and attacked by America’s new favorite ally in the region.
Kurdish militias are achieving the stated goals of the Obama administration — to “degrade and ultimately destroy” ISIS — as well or better than any other fighting force. From Kobane to the recent liberation of Tel Abyad, Kurdish militias have won hard-fought victories against ISIS fighters in Syria, while preventing the advance of ISIS into northern Iraq.
Selahattin Demirtaş, co-leader of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), has called on both the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the government to reach a cease-fire while accusing an adviser to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of leading a plan to close down his party
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, for talks in Beijing on July 29, in a visit expected to cover trade ties, missile defense program bargaining and spat over the Asian giant’s Uighur minority
news.xinhuanet.com – Jul 29, 4:28 PM
Chinese President Xi Jinping holds a welcoming ceremony for his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan before their meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, July 29, 2015. (Xinhua/Zhang Duo)
BEIJING, July 29 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday, and they pledged mutual support on issues of major concern. The leaders agreed that the two sides should keep in
foreignpolicy.com – Leela Jacinto – Mar 20, 2014, 4:07 PM
The ink had barely dried on the “game-changer” headlines proclaiming Turkey’s much-delayed entry in the war against the Islamic State (IS), when Kurdish activists began sounding “game-unchanged” warnings on Twitter. The
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ramps up tensions with Kurdish militants, saying he cannot continue a two-year-old peace process with them.Related posts:
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Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Not a fair game in #TurkeyElections -56 HDP offices attacked, ita co-chair’s home “mistakenly” raided by police…
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President Erdoğan urges Turkish citizens living abroad to vote
Speaking at a rally in the German city of Karslruhe, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has urged Turkish citizens living abroad to cast their votes in the June 7 general elections.
NİLAY VARDAR IN MANISA: What Do People Think About the Elections in Manisa?
Bianet :: English
Number of deputies in Manisa will decrease to 9 from 10. It still remains unknown who will win or lose. What about the voters’ opinion?
HDP co-chair discloses details of mistaken police raid
Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chairman Selahattin Demirtaş has disclosed the details of a mistaken police raid into his home over a fuel smuggling report, stressing the fear his family felt over the scuffle
Turkish police ‘mistakenly’ raid HDP co-chair’s home
Police in Turkey’s southeastern province of Diyarbakır have mistakenly raided the apartment of the Kurdish problem-focused People’s Democratic Party Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş, citing misleading information regarding a smuggling case from an anonymous informer
Bianet :: English
Ertuğrul Kürkçü said that people in İzmir asked questions about a possibility to create a coalition with AKP. Even though he indicated that he was against the coalition individually, he stated that he couldn’t speak on behalf of his party.
Turkey’s Economic Woes at Center of Election Campaign
ACTURCA
Voice of America News (USA) Tuesday, May 12, 2015 Dorian Jones, Istanbul Turkey received disappointing economic news Tuesday with an unexpected rise in the country’s current account deficit, caused by a severe fall in exports. It is the latest in bad economic news for the ruling AK Party, which is in a general election campaign. […]
A un mois des élections législatives, la Turquie est en plein doute
ACTURCA
La Tribune (France), no. 5706, mardi 12 mai 2015, p. 24 Romaric Godin Les électeurs turcs renouvelleront leur parlement le 7 juin prochain. L’enjeu sera politique, mais surtout économique, car le pays traverse une passe difficile. Dans un peu moins d’un mois, le 7 juin, les électeurs turcs seront appelés à renouveler leur parlement unicaméral, […]
Exploiting religion… a new low point…
President Erdoğan has blamed both the main opposition CHP and the Peoples’ Democratic Party for what he perceived as religious indifference, while also praising Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs for preventing the presence of fundamentalist groups such as Boko Haram and ISIL
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan defended Turkey’s top cleric Mehmet Görmez over his use of an official car worth 1 million Turkish Liras ($435,000), which he vowed to return after strong criticism from the opposition
The leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has vowed to continue the Kurdish peace process if elected in the June polls, but has stressed he will regard the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) as the sole interlocutor in the talks
Deputy Prime Minister Yalçın Akdoğan has criticized the main opposition leader over remarks suggesting that the Republican People’s Party (CHP) will only negotiate with the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) about the Kurdish peace process if the social democratic party wins the June 7 polls.
President Erdoğan has joined the debate on whether Prime Minister Davutoğlu visited U.S.-based Islamic scholar Gülen with the permission of former President Gül, stating that he personally gave Davutoğlu the go-ahead
Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci called on businesses, trade unions and bosses to react to the opposition’s pledge to increase the minimum wage, saying that increases would result in job losses
Turkish Deputy PM Akdoğan slammed the main opposition parties on April 28 over their “lack of support for the government in the struggle against the parallel state”
As a clash over economic promises between the government and the main opposition CHP heated up with fresh remarks from both parties, Selin Sayek Böke, a deputy leader of the CHP, has said the state-run Turkish Housing Development Agency (TOKİ) has obviously been unsuccessful for the past 12 years
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Thursday, April 30, 2015
In order to prevent May Day Celebration in Taksim, Turkish state literally shuts down Istanbul… Istanbul news roundup…
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Banned the May Day celebrations in Taksim, Istanbul Governor closed to traffic not only in Taksim and it’s around, but also in many points in Istanbul.
Airspace also closed! http://ift.tt/1HYZHNN
On May Day, the metro services will be available only between Levent-Hacıosman stations. The metro services between Levent-Yenikapı stations and the funicular services between Kabataş-Taksim will be cancelled.
All the places close to traffic tomorrow listed here in Turkish.
Istanbul’s main airport beats traffic record
Atatürk Airport in Istanbul broke its air traffic record on April 26 when a total of 1,338 planes took off and lande
Roger Federer Reaches Quarterfinals at Istanbul Open
Federer defeated Jarkko Nieminen to reach the quarterfinals of the inauguralIstanbul Open, where he will play Daniel Gimeno-Traver
Yener Torun captures colourful side of Istanbul in spectacular Instagram pictures
The historical city of Istanbul is usually captured through photographs of its picturesque mosques, elaborate palaces and winding streets and markets
Thousands Gather in Istanbul to Demand Turkey Recognize Armenian Mass Killings as Genocide
Thousands gathered Friday evening in Istanbul to mark the centennial of the mass killings of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey. Armenians from around …
Breaking Down the Inaugural Istanbul Open Draw
Just like every tournament, the clay from Monte Carlo and Istanbul is going to be a bit different meaning Federer is going to need time to adjust, …
On an Istanbul street, have I just witnessed a positive step in history?
He lies beneath a grey stone sepulcher under a grey stone arch on the Hill of Eternal Liberty, opposite the Florence Nightingale Hospital in Istanbul.
International delegations gather in İstanbul to demand ‘genocide’ recognition
Benjamin Abtan of EGAM speaks at the “Armenian Genocide Centennial Commemoration” in İstanbul at the Cezayir Center on Wednesday.(Photo:
Questioning art and education at Istanbul Modern
Istanbul Modern is hosting a conversation series focusing on artist Mehmet Güleryüz’s large-scale quest for expression as well as a film program as ..
‘Model Mecca’ opens in Istanbul
A district mayor in Istanbul has been criticised for building models of some of Islam’s most sacred sites, it’s reported. The replicas were unveiled on …
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After we settled in Istanbul, we spent our summers and large parts of all the other seasons exploring the shores of the Mediterranean. Each time we .
Turkish Airlines has aborted the landings of three of its airliners at Atatürk Airport due to stray dogs that invaded the runway
Police raid Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar to seize illegal souvenirs
Police seized souvenirs made from endangered species of animals and worth around 500,000 Turkish Liras from a shop in Istanbul’s historic and .
Diaspora Armenians, Turkish Groups to Mark Genocide Centennial in Istanbul
ISTANBUL—On the eve of the centennial of the Armenian Genocide, Turkish and Armenian-American organizations, assembled with record-breaking …
Largest ever gathering of Diaspora Armenians in Istanbul to commemorate centennial with Turkish … –Public Radio of Armenia
In Istanbul, Producer Sona Tatoyan Is Ready for Her Close-Up
She lived for a year between the Armenian capital of Yerevan and Istanbul, and later spent six months in India trying to recover from the exhilaration
How the Occupation of Istanbul Shaped the Modern Middle East
Durham, NC – At the end of World War I, the defeated capital of the Ottoman Empire, Istanbul, was “a city of poverty and refugees” with a multi-ethnic .
Shops in Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar evacuated by the police
Police have forcefully evicted the renters of several shops inside the historic Grand Bazaar, Istanbul’s largest covered market, just one day after …
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