Bana Alabed, Aleppo’s tweeting girl, meets Turkey’s President Erdogan BUT some questions Bana’s father’s position…

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Bana Alabed, Aleppo’s tweeting girl, meets Turkey’s President Erdogan

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

 

Syrian seven-year-old Bana Alabed, who tweeted about life in Aleppo, meets Turkey’s President Erdogan.

Bana! The victim of a terrorist dad! We ask those naive in the West who sympathized with her fabricated story, what do you think now?! http://pic.twitter.com/Axfgtka75s

— Fares Shehabi (@ShehabiFares) December 21, 2016

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Aleppo tweeter Bana al-Abed meets Turkish president Erdogan – video

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Guardian Staff

 

Bana al-Abed, the Syrian girl whose Tweets from eastern Aleppo captured the world’s attention, meets with Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and first lady Emine Erdogan at his palace in Ankara on Wednesday. Seven-year-old Bana and her mother were evacuated to safety on Monday, part of an evacuation deal that saw the remaining residents of Aleppo head to other parts of the country. Bana thanked the president for supporting the children of Aleppo. Photograph: Kayhan Ozer/Getty Images

Syria’s Civil War Is Spilling Into Turkey’s Streets — And Art Galleries

FiveThirtyEight » Features by Nicholas Danforth

 

Following two deadly bomb attacks against Turkish security forces last week, the assassination of a Russian ambassador at an art gallery in Ankara on Monday revealed the extent to which Syria’s civil war has spilled over into Turkey.

Pro-government papers in Turkey: the Gulenists, assisted by the CIA (Yeni Şafak) or the "Western alliance" (Takvim), did it. http://pic.twitter.com/9hXpVPUfXz

— Piotr Zalewski (@p_zalewski) December 20, 2016

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The murder in Ankara is vultures coming home to roost

open Democracy News Analysis – by Mark Galeotti

Russia’s “wins” have largely been destructive and destabilising. The assassination of its ambassador to Turkey shows consequences are never far behind.

Erdogan Says Follower of Gulen, His Rival, Killed Russian Envoy

NYT > Turkey by By RICK GLADSTONE

 

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan doubled down on accusations that the assassin’s fealty lay with Fethullah Gulen, an outlawed Muslim cleric.

New Video Surfaces of Assassination of Russian Ambassador inTurkey
Mediaite
A new video has surfaced showing the first few seconds of shooting in Ankara yesterday in the assassination of Russia’s ambassador in Turkey. The video, posted to Twitter by Radio Sawa’s Zaid Benjamin, shows the shots ringing out at the very end, and .

Russian ambassador killing: Andrei Karlov’s body flown home from Turkey

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

 

The body of the Russian ambassador to Turkey has been flown home after he was shot dead in Turkey.

5 scenarios to watch after the shooting of Russian ambassador in Ankara
gulfnews.com
The Turkish government has been on the receiving end of such hacks before; on December 7, Wikileaks released over 57,000 emails of Berat Albayrak, Turkey’s minister of energy and natural resources and also President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s son-in-law.

 

Turkey Assassination Suggests Erdogan’s Loyalty Problem Is Lingering

NYT > Turkey by By RICK GLADSTONE

 

The affiliation of the man who killed Russia’s ambassador remains unclear, but the assassination betrayed a glaring unknown among forces that have pledged fealty to the president.

Clashes in Al Bab: 4 Soldiers Killed, 15 Injured

Bianet :: English

 

In an operation carried out in al-Bab as a part of Operation Euphrates Shield, an armed conflict has occurred killing four soldiers, injuring 15 others.

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Cyberculture agenda: A #PokemonGo roundup…

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How Pokémon Go Conquered The World In A Week

Sysomos Blog by Lance Concannon

Once upon a time there was a video games company called Nintendo which was cherished by gamers for over twenty years. Sadly, in the era of smartphones and tablets, Nintendo struggled to keep up with the changing times and many gamers worried about the company’s future as it seemed doomed to obscurity.

Pokémon Go’s Breakout Success Has Implications for the Real World, Too

MIT Technology Review

Nintendo’s mega-popular new game shows that augmented reality may yet trump virtual reality.

How to kick Pokemon Go out of your Google account

 Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza

A privacy trainwreck: Pokemon Go, the hit augmented reality game that’s seeing kids and adults alike scouring the real world looking for monsters to nab, quietly gets access to players’ entire Google accounts.

Frustrated Players in Rural Areas Petition For More ‘Pokémon GO’ Portals Near Them – “What’s worse than server issues with Pokémon Go? Logging in for the first time and seeing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.”

 Upvoted by Michelle Woo

Too many Pokémon, not enough waking hours to catch them all. That seems to be the crisis for many of the 7.5 million people (in the US alone!) who’vedownloaded Pokémon Go, the mobile game that has people exploring their cities, getting exercise and meeting strangers IRL.

Sorry, astronauts: You can’t play ‘Pokémon Go’ in space

Mashable! by Miriam Kramer

While the whole world seems to be totally obsessed with Pokémon Go, at least six people aren’t going to have the chance to try out the augmented reality gaming sensation anytime soon.

A non-gamer’s best guesses as to what Pokémon Go actually is

 Mashable! by Andrew Freedman

I’m a 37-year-old man with a 17-month-old little boy, and I am increasingly out of touch with video games. But since I work at Mashable, where I am the science editor, I am surrounded by people who do play video games, and who are obsessing over something called “Pokémon Go” at the moment.

Playing Pokemon Go? You Need the Right Gear

Wired Top Stories by Tim Moynihan

Rule the shopping cart, catch them all. The post Playing Pokemon Go?

The 15 weirdest places people have caught them all in ‘Pokémon Go’

Mashable! by Brian Koerber

Well, that escalated quickly.

Pokémon Go on Android: Already bigger than Tinder, may soon be as big as Twitter

 Mashable! by Stan Schroeder

Five days after the launch, Pokémon Go — an augmented reality game in which you hunt virtual Pokémon on your phone in real-life locations — is huge.

Pokemon Go privacy rules are terrible (just like all your other apps)

Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow

Pokemon Go wants access to your Google account (and thus your email and Google Docs) and its privacy policy is a Kafka-esque nightmare document that lets them collect every single imaginable piece of private information about your life and share it with pretty much anyone they want to, forever

Online surveillance: we all have something to hide

open Democracy News Analysis – by Mohammad I. Aslam

Why continuing to shrug at mass data collection is lazy, irresponsible, and borderline stupid.

Satellite dishes at GCHQ Bude. Nilfanion/Wikimedia. Some rights reserved.We’ve all got secrets. We’ve all done things we’re ashamed of. We’ve all done things we’re worried about. We’ve all done things we’re embarrassed of.

One Twitter User’s Frame-by-Frame Analysis of the Dallas Shooting Media Coverage

Global Voices Online by Georgia Popplewell

Floor tiles at the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome. The pattern creates an illusion of three-dimensional boxes. PHOTO: Public Domain

Bad bot, bad bot – 29 percent of web traffic from malicious bots
SC Magazine
The primary use for bots is performing Distributed Denial of Service attacks mostly originating from China, South Korea, the United States, Vietnam and Turkey with the United States, U.K., Japan, Netherlands and France being the most victimized nations

Twitter: Ramadan Tweets Viewed More Than 10.7 Billion Times

All Facebook by David Cohen

Twitter announced that tweets related to Ramadan, which ended July 5, were viewed more than 10.7 billion times, up from 8.4 billion in 2015.

Two More Black Victims of Police Violence Become Hashtags #PhilandoCastile #AltonSterling

The Intercept by Robert Mackey

As my colleague Liliana Segura noted on Twitter this morning, the documented killing of black Americans by police officers has become so routine that it is hard for even the racists who seek to justify the slaughter in online comment threads to keep up.

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Facebook Live, Periscope Play Roles in Uproar Over Police Shootings

 All Facebook by David Cohen

Live-video-streaming services such as Twitter’s Periscope application andFacebook Live have played prominent roles in the fallout over police shootings of African Americans.

The July 6 fatal shooting of Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minn., wascaptured on Facebook Live (embedded below, but please be warned, the content is graphic) by Castile’s girlfriend, Diamond Williams.

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