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Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Biopolitics of Islamist Fascism: “childless women to be ‘deficient’” “Blood to be Tested in Laboratory’

Women who refuse maternity are lacking, says Erdoğan

A woman who abstains from maternity out of a desire to work is deficient, no matter how successful she is, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said June 5

Erdoğan sparks outrage again after declaring childless women to be ‘deficient’

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has attracted opprobrium once more after controversially claiming that women who prefer not to have children or manage their households are “deficient,” regardless of their successes in the area of business

Erdoğan: ‘Should Get Their Blood Tested in Laboratory’

Bianet :: English

President Erdoğan as to the Armenian Genocide Resolution passed in Germany has noted; “A smartass comes up, prepares some stuff and submits it to German Parliament. And some claim these are Turks. Hell no! Their blood should be tested in laboratory”.

HDP deputy raises concerns over sexual abuse in Turkish refugee camp

The statements of a Turkish cleaner at a camp for Syrian refugees, who was sentenced to 96 years in jail for sexually abusing boys, has strengthened concerns that the scope of abuse at the camp is much wider, a Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy has said, filing a second parliamentary question to Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım over the statements

AKP MP prepares legislative motion to label German killings of Nama people ‘genocide’

A deputy from the ruling AKP has prepared a legislative proposal over the German killings of locals in Namibia in the early 1900’s to be described as “genocide”

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Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Journalism agenda: “Al Jazeera America is shutting down…

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Al Jazeera America is shutting down

Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin

Al Jazeera's logo at the MIPTV, the International Television Programs Market, event in Cannes April 2, 2012 REUTERS

Adieu, Al Jazeera America, and all the DNA it absorbed from Al Gore’s once massively-hyped Current TV.

How is citizen journalism transforming the BBC’s Newsroom practices?

open Democracy News Analysis – by Lisette Johnston

User-generated content offers new ways of covering ‘black hole’ stories such as the Syrian conflict. But how do journalists make sense of what is happening on the ground?

Artist’s impression of the ‘Houla Massacre’. Credit: Flickr/Surian Soosay

Here are some more predictions for journalism in 2016

Nieman Journalism Lab by Joseph Lichterman

Predicting the year ahead in journalism has become a Nieman Lab tradition. Each year, we ask some of the smartest people in the business to share what they think the year ahead will look like for news.

We’re not the only ones looking at how journalism will fare in 2016, though. This week, Nic Newman, a research associate at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, released a new report: “Media, Journalism and Technology Predictions 2016.”

Top 10 Media Publishers of December 2015: Playboy Ends Year on High Note

All Facebook

In December, U.S. media publishers accounted for 1.5 billion total social actions (likes, comments, shares, retweets, dislikes), with 728 million from Instagram, 667 million actions from Facebook, 52 million from Twitter, and 17 million from YouTube (excluding views).

The media publishing industry represents 22 percent of all actions taken on content published by U.S. brands in December. Total actions for the media publishing industry grew 6 percent compared to November 2015, due to a 6 percent increase on Instagram and Facebook, a 3 percent increase on Twitter and a 29 percent increase on YouTube.

A 91-year-old literary magazine is hosting a yearlong experiment in storytelling on Instagram

Nieman Journalism Lab by Shan Wang

On my Instagram feed, sandwiched between a photo of a bagel and one of a friend’s Christmas tree, is a black-and-white snapshot of a homeless man sitting on a Manhattan sidewalk. The accompanying text is 400 words long, a sketch built from fragments of the man’s history as told to the post’s author (and photographer), Jamie Alliotts.

For McClatchy’s new head of news strategies, analytics and social traffic bolster good journalism

Nieman Journalism Lab by Shan Wang

Newspaper companies haven’t had an easy 2015, and the outlook for regional and local news in 2016 is less than rosy. Last year, on the heels of shakeups at the national newspaper chain Digital First Media, Ken Doctor asked whether these companies have a strategy beyond milking their papers for profit.

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Monday, January 18, 2016

Turkey’s malleable public opinion: “Russia replaces Israel at top of threat list for Turks: Survey

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Russia replaces Israel at top of threat list for Turks: Survey

Most Turks see Russia as the biggest threat to Turkey, according to a survey recently conducted by a university in Istanbul

Turkey has a long way to go before EU membership: Merkel

Turkey still has a long way to go in its bid to become a full member of the European Union, German Chancellor Angela Merkel stated in a weekly Q&A video exchange published on Jan. 16

European court dismisses requests to lift curfews in Turkey’s southeast

The European Court of Human Rights has dismissed demands for an interim injunction to lift ongoing curfews in two southeastern districts where operations against outlawed PKK militants are continuing

ECHR condemns Turkey for party dissolution over terror links

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has condemned Turkey for dissolving a political party in 2009 for alleged ties to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), saying the party did not promote violence nor warrant such a severe sanction

One killed as mortar shell from Syria hits schoolyard in border town

One person was killed and two were wounded as a mortar shell originating from Syria hit a schoolyard in the southeastern Turkish province of Kilis, private broadcaster A Haber has reported

Istanbul suicide bomb victims mostly German

EurActiv.com

A suicide bomber thought to have crossed recently from Syria killed at least 10 people, most of them German tourists, in Istanbul’s historic heart on Tuesday, in an attack Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu blamed on Islamic State.

Sultanahmet suicide bomber identified as Syrian ‘asylum seeker’

The ISIL suicide bomber who killed 10 tourists by blowing himself up in Istanbul’s touristic Sultanahmet Square has been identified as a Syrian citizen born in Saudi Arabia who recently appealed to a district directorate of migration management for asylum in Turkey

Turkey says Istanbul suicide bomber entered country as refugee

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Kareem Shaheen in Beirut and agencies