Haters gonna hate. New hate work directed at Christmas :(

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A nationalist youth group Alperens performed the latest hate stunt in Nazilli, Aydın. Source

Alperens have a tendency to hate Christmas/New Year celebrations (and a tendency to confuse Christmas and New Year ) and a few years ago they were chasing a suited Santa Claus in Bolu:

 

‘David Beckham’ gets bus card in Turkey’s İzmir but Brad Pitt, Adriana Lima, Angelina Jolie, Johnny Deep, Al Pacino left out

 Hurriyet Daily News

 

İzmir’s public transport authority, ESHOT, has canceled a number of transport cards after a male student was spotted using retired footballer David Beckham’s picture on his bus card, the authority has said

From Astrophysics to Rakka

Turkish News Tuhaf – I’m Not Making This Up –

 

türkçe links to original Turkish article

(Sözcü Newspaper, 27 December 2016)

Future ISIS astronaut cadre in a light-hearted moment.

Shocking details about Astrophysicist Raşid Tuğral, a graduate
of Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ) in Ankara, who was
killed last year after joining the ranks of the radical religious
terrorist group ISIS, have come to light.  The Voice of America (VOA)
has broadcast Tuğral’s story under the headline “Falling into ISIS’s Trap”.

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Eurosphere agenda: “Corbyn re-elected as Labour leader…

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Debate: Corbyn re-elected as Labour leader

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After months of infighting Jeremy Corbyn has been re-elected as the leader of the Labour Party with 61.8 percent of the vote. Corbyn had come under pressure from within his party among other things because he didn’t endorse the UK remaining in the EU. Commentators speculate on how his re-election will influence the Brexit negotiations.

UK: Jeremy Corbyn wins Labour leadership contest

 AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (IN DEPTH)

Veteran socialist wins second mandate to run opposition party after bitter, summer-long battle within the Labour party.

Labour leadership: Corbyn vows to give ‘more power’ to activists

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

Jeremy Corbyn vows to give more say over policy-making to grass-roots Labour supporters as one union leader urges critical MPs to stop “knifing” their leader.

Divided UK Labour struggles with Brexit, despite Corbyn’s re-election

EurActiv.com

Distracted by a bitter leadership contest, Britain’s main opposition Labour party has struggled to present a vision of Brexit to challenge the ruling Conservatives – and many fear the re-election of Jeremy Corbyn will do little to change this.

Germany’s agricultural challenges

EurActiv.com by Davide Patteri

Despite its small size relative to the country’s GDP, agriculture is a political heavyweight with the German government. With far-reaching changes to the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy about to take effect, EurActiv.com looks at the implications for the German agricultural sector.

Debate: Rome vetos bid for Olympics

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Rome’s Mayor Virginia Raggi has vetoed the city’s bid for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games. Submitting a bid for the Games would be irresponsible and would only benefit the construction lobby at the expense of the people, the mayor said. Italian columnists express their disappointment.

Polish anti-government protest draws thousands

EurActiv.com by Georgi Gotev

Tens of thousands of protesters hit the streets of the Polish capital Warsaw Saturday (24 September) to rally against moves by the rightwing Law and Justice (PiS) government that they say undermine the rule of law.

Barcelona: city of refuge

open Democracy News Analysis – by Cameron Thibos, Ramón Sanahuja and Ignasi Calbó

Barcelona seeks to welcome refugees and migrants into the fabric of the city, but its efforts have been stymied by the national government.

Ignasi Calbó and Ramón Sanahuja discuss the division of labour between local and national actors when it comes to welcoming refugees. Duration: 2:09.

Toward a more reasonable European asylum system

open Democracy News Analysis – by Cameron Thibos and Anna Terrón Cusí  /

National governments must cede some control over immigration to EU-level institutions if migrants are ever to be received and dealt with humanely.

Anna Terrón Cusí explains the need for an EU-level system for assessing and distributing asylum seekers. Duration: 1:37

Cameron Thibos: What are the main political challenges to dealing with the migration challenge productively?

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Deutsche Welle’s probably wrongly awarded Freedom of Speech Award

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I could not attend this years Global Media Forum organized by Deutsche Welle. It is one of my favorite conferences to attend. I have also been a Jury member at DW’s BOBS Awards for three years.

As far as I could observe, Freedom of Speech Award nomination process was not much transparent and we are not told the reasons for why Mr Ergin was chosen.

I had the opportunity to interview Mr. Ergin for my PhD project at some point and I know he is such an elegant and knowledgeable person. However, I am not sure he has been known to freedom causes and for me he and his newspaper, Hürriyet, represent the old Westernized but nationalist elites of Turkey.

Since the landslide AKP victory on November 1, 2015 Hürriyet leadership opted a pro-Establishement line. Hürriyet is the only Turkish daily I follow regularly and I witness how this daily publishes anti-Kurdish pieces probably produced by Turkey’s intelligence circles. Not only the content but also the headlines are frequently in line with Turkish war establishment’s voices.

Doğan Media Group, owner of Hürriyet, is frequently in conflict with AKP government and some circles think this group is the last bastion of freedom [as Kai Diekmann the publishing editor of Bild said below]  but the conflict is a battle between two classes of policy elites who never cared for freedom.

In the last analysis, awarding process seems to have depended on personal networks and some policy concerns in behalf of Deutsche Welle (may be not to anger Turkey more?) and it gravely weakend DW’s attitude towards media freedom causes in Turkey.

I could not attend the conference but my specter haunted it (!)

Hürriyet Editor-in-chief Ergin honored with Freedom of Speech Award

Sedat Ergin, the editor-in-chief of Turkish daily Hürriyet, has received Deutsche Welle’s second annual Freedom of Speech Award

Diekmann: Hürriyet is one of the last remaining, loud voices in Turkey

Kai Diekmann the publishing editor of Bild has said on June 13 that the Hürriyet daily was one of the last remaining, loud voices of Turkey

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