Eurosphere agenda: “Interactive map: 15 years of European migrant deaths…”Murder overshadows Brexit referendum campaign…

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Interactive map: 15 years of European migrant deaths

 Boing Boing by Andrea James

Austrian designer Moriz Büsing created this grim interactive map of migrant and refugee deaths on the way to Europe, or trying to stay in Europe; over 32,000 deaths in 15 years

Europe migrant crisis: Charity rejects EU funds over migration policy

 BBC News | Europe | World Edition

The medical aid charity Medecins Sans Frontieres says it will no longer take funds from the European Union in protest at its migration policy.

Killing of MP Jo Cox halts Brexit campaigning in UK

 AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (IN DEPTH

Campaigning for June 23 referendum suspended after pro-EU campaigner Jo Cox, 41, is shot dead in northern England.

Debate: Murder overshadows Brexit referendum campaign

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The motivation behind the murder of Labour MP and Brexit opponent Jo Cox on Thursday remains unclear. The killer is said to have shouted “Britain first” during his assault and there is speculation that he is mentally disturbed. What impact will the attack have with just a few days to go before the Brexit referendum?

Croatia’s right-wing government falls

 EurActiv.com

Croatia’s government fell Thursday (17 June) after Prime Minister Tihomir Oreskovic lost a confidence vote in parliament, in a serious blow to the country’s nationalist rulers after only five months in power.

The rise of euroscepticism in the United Kingdom or the failure of Europeanism

open Democracy News Analysis – by Sophie Heine

The European Union has severely undermined perceptions of sovereignty and it will fail unless EU citizens regain their voice in the policy process. Might a fully-fledged federalist project do that?

All eyes on the EU Skills Agenda

 EurActiv.com by Alba Xhixha

Unemployment rates continue to run high across Europe; 10 June saw the European Commission publish its much-anticipated Skills Agenda. It is a welcome step towards addressing this challenge, and one that will need to be further built upon, writes Alba Xhixha.

Brexit’s Impact on the World Economy

 Project Syndicate by Anatole Kaletsky

The febrile behavior of financial markets ahead of the UK’s “Brexit” referendum on June 23 shows that the outcome will influence economic and political conditions around the world far more profoundly than Britain’s share of global GDP might suggest. In fact, for three reasons, a Brexit vote could catalyze another global crisis.

Spain’s Podemos Party publishes its manifesto in Ikea Catalog form

Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow

Spain’s anti-austerity, left-wing Podemos (“We Can”) Party (previously), which grew out of Spain’s Occupy-like Indignados movement, has just published its election manifesto for the June 26 election —

Ikea-style politics

 BBC News | Europe | World Edition

Presenting their manifesto in an Ikea-style catalogue proves Spain’s newest party Podemos knows how to grab young voters’ attention, says Prof Manuel Arias-Maldonado.

Euro 2016: Russia faces Uefa probe after stadium violence

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

Uefa opens disciplinary proceedings against Russia’s Football Union after crowd disturbances at the Euro 2016 match between England and Russia

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From Twitter Transparency Report to ECHR records, Turkey tops rights violation…

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ECHR fines Turkey for dismissing cases filed by 1999 quake victims

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has fined Turkey for dismissing lawsuits filed by victims of a 1999 earthquake against contractors of buildings that collapsed in the quake that killed tens of thousands of people in northwestern Turkey

GİYAV: 6,417 Children Exposed to Right Violation

Bianet :: English

In the Immigration and Humanitarian Aid Foundation Juvenile Right Violations Report, it has been stated that 6,417 children have been subjected to right violation, 703 of these children have lost their lives, 1,081 others wounded.

Peace Block: Murder Committed in Cizre, Let Whoever Responsible Stand Trial

Bianet :: English

Peace Block has stated that the injured persons in Cizre had to die while waiting to be taken to hospital and demanded putting whoever is responsible for the crime on trial and responding to the accusations regarding chemical weapons.

Turkey has the right to conduct operations in Syria, elsewhere to combat terror threats: Erdoğan

Turkey has the right to conduct operations not only in Syria but also any other place in which there are terrorist organizations that target Turkey, said President Erdoğan

The destruction of Sur: is this historic district a target for gentrification?

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by David Lepeska in Diyarbakir

More than 30,000 residents have fled the Kurdish-dominated World Heritage Site in Turkey. With the PM promising to ‘rebuild Sur like Toledo’, some see links between the government’s military operations and its regeneration plans

Like ants toting food back to the colony, the families streaming out of Diyarbakir’s old city on a recent sunny afternoon tended to move in single file. They carried boxes, bags and beds on their heads and babies in their arms, hauled luggage and carts, and the occasional piece of furniture.

Turkey summons US envoy over PYD row

Turkey has summoned the top U.S. diplomat in order to protest Washington’s latest statement that refused to call the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union (PYD) a “terrorist” organization

ELİF AKGÜL AT NEWS WATCH: Journalists at Diyarbakır Bar: We are Here to Remove Disinformation

Bianet :: English

Journalists in the second group of News Watch have met with Diyarbakır Bar Deputy President, Ahmet Özmen and Bar Administrative Board members.

Turkish PM lashes out at ‘two-faced’ UN

Turkish PM Ahmet Davutoğlu has lashed out at the United Nations after it demanded the country open its borders to tens of thousands of more Syrian refugees, accusing it of being “two-faced.”

Norwegian Correspondent Denied Work Permit

 Bianet :: English

Norwegian journalist Silje Kampesæte has not been granted work permit in Turkey, the newspaper has stated that the last time they experienced such a thing was in 1971 in USSR.

Syrian Kurds open Moscow representation

Kurdish groups in Syria on Feb. 10 opened a representation in Moscow amid a push by the Kremlin to have them included in Syria peace talks despite Turkey’s objections

Turkey’s Erdoğan asks UN: Are you mocking us?

The United Nations’ demand from Turkey to open its border to tens of thousands of Syrian refugees massed on its border has prompted a stern response from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who accused the world body of being ineffective over the refugee crisis and not shouldering the burden like Turkey

Turkey’s Leader Rebukes U.S. Over Its Support for Kurds

NYT > Turkey by By CEYLAN YEGINSU

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said support for Kurdish militants fighting the Islamic State had helped turn the region into “a sea of blood.”

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