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Friday, March 24, 2017

Come to Turkey! “Turkey ranks 71st in UN Human Development Index

Turkey ranks 71st in UN Human Development Index

Turkey has scored 71 out of 188 countries on the Human Development Index (HDI) for 2016, according to the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) latest Human Development Report.

Moody’s revises outlook of 14 Turkish banks to negative

Moody’s Investors Service has taken rating actions on 17 Turkish banks, changing the ratings outlook from stable to negative on 14 of the lenders.

Moody’s cuts outlook on Turkey credit rating to ‘negative’

Hurriyet Daily News

Moody’s late on March 17 cut its outlook on Turkey’s rating to “negative” as risks to the country’s credit profile have “risen materially” in recent months

Turkey’s unemployment rate rises to 12.7 pct, highest in seven years

Turkey’s unemployment rate hit 12.7 percent in December 2016, the highest since March 2010, while youth unemployment stood at 24 percent, official data from the Turkish Statistics Institute (TÜİK) showed on March 15

Turkey’s annual inflation up to double digits in February

Turkey’s annual inflation rate was 10.13 percent in February, according to Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) figures released on March 3.

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#Journalism agenda: NEW IPI website calls on Turkey to release the 148 people in jail for practicing journalism

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NEW IPI website https://t.co/LjoauFjw6p calls on #Turkey to release the 148 people in jail for practicing journalism #FreeTurkeyJournalists! http://pic.twitter.com/rHrEr3qz8E

— IPI (@globalfreemedia) March 22, 2017

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‘Sometimes I laugh at this farce’: six writers on life behind bars in Turkey

The Guardian – Kareem Shaheen – Mar 23, 12:00 AM

Six persecuted writers describe the mental and physical toll of living in the country that jails more journalists than any other

Revealed: the terror and torment of Turkey’s jailed journalists

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Kareem Shaheen in Istanbul

Prisoners tell of solitary confinement and maltreatment after being caught up in ‘Kafkaesque’ media purge

Scores of imprisoned Turkish journalists face a Kafkaesque nightmare of legal limbo, farcical charge sheets, maltreatment and even solitary confinement in the country that locks up more reporters than any other in the world.

Avoiding articles from “the creep”: People trust news based on who shared it, not on who published it

Nieman Journalism Lab by Laura Hazard Owen

From new mottos to television advertising campaigns, news organizations are refocusing efforts on why their readers should trust them. But new research suggests they should also focus on who their “ambassadors” are: The main factor in determining a reader’s trust in an article appears to be who shared it, not the news organization that published it, according to a study out Monday from The Media Insight Project, a collaboration between the American Press Institute and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

Piqd is combining expertise from academics, journalists and professionals to curate news

Journalism.co.uk

The German start-up founded in 2015 launched an international version of the platform in February

Study: Fake news more likely to be trusted if shared by the right person

The Next Web by Rachel Kaser

A new study confirms what you already suspect: Some people will believe anything if the right person shares it on Facebook. The Media Insight study, funded by the American Press Institute and AP-NORC, interviewed a sample of 1,489 adults on AP-NORC’s survey panel in the period between November and December last year. Media Insight created a series of fake social media posts sharing two identical articles from different sources — one article being published by the Associated Press, and the other by a fake site called DailyNewsReview. The participants were shown a mock-up social media post that showed the story being…

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Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Turkey maintains its record: New Twitter transparency report says Turkey leads in social media censorship…

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Turkey leads in social media censorship: new Twitter transparency report

Turkey Blocks – Editorial – Mar 21, 7:41 AM

The latest quarterly transparency report from Twitter Inc. reveals that Turkey once again led globally in number of content takedown requests by court order in the last quarter of 2016. The popular social media and micro-blogging services routinely

Erdogan warns Europeans ‘will not walk safely’ if current attitude persists

Reuters – Mar 22, 6:19 AM

ANKARA Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Europeans across the world would not be able to walk safely on the streets if they kept up their current attitude. Turkey has been embroiled in a row with Germany and the Netherlands

Erdogan just threatened the safety of every person in Europe

The Independent – Mar 22, 3:29 AM

Europeans across the world will not be able to walk the streets safely if they keep up their current attitude towards Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said. Turkey has been mired in a diplomatic row with Germany and the Netherlands after

Erdogan’s informers: Turkey’s descent into fear and betrayal

Financial Times – Mar 15, 9:18 AM

Browsing Facebook at home one Saturday, Bilgin Ciftci saw a post that made him chuckle. It was a montage of images of Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan placed alongside Gollum from The Lord of the Rings. In the first, the president and the

The Crackdown, and the Loyalist

New York Times – Patrick Kingsley – Mar 19, 9:01 PM

In one section of Istanbul, an imprisoned journalist’s family tries to cope after Turkey’s crackdown. In another, a neighborhood leader is proud to have taken a bullet for his government during the coup attempt. This is the second part in the State

Turkey-EU relations plumb new depths

EUobserver.com – Headline News

Turkey’s EU quarrel escalated on all fronts over the weekend, amid fresh “Nazi” and “terrorism” jibes. “Not all Turks are little Erdogans,” Juncker said.

German government not ‘Nazis’ but practices are reminiscent of Third Reich: Turkish FM

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has responded to German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s criticism of Ankara’s likening of the German government to the Nazis, asserting that present German politicians were not Nazis but that their practices were reminiscent of the era

Erdogan turns Turkey’s WWI event into political rally

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Turkey’s president assures supporters that he “will keep on standing firm” despite some European governments’ actions.

Three children not enough, have five: Erdoğan to Turks in EU

Hurriyet Daily News

President Erdoğan calls on Turks in Europe to procreate more because ‘they are the future of Europe’

Five myths about Turkey

washingtonpost.com – Op-Ed Columns by Steven A. Cook

No, its president isn’t a dictator, and the country isn’t secular.

Erdogan threatens to scrap EU-Turkey migrant deal

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

President Erdogan says the EU can “forget about” Turkey re-admitting migrants, as a row continues.

Those who make dogs bite my people no different from gladiators in ancient Rome: Erdoğan

Hurriyet Daily News

Those in Europe who make dogs bite Turkish protesters are “no different from gladiators in ancient Rome,” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on March 17, referring to the Dutch police intevention against Turkish pro-government demonstrators in Rotterdam last weekend.

Opinion | Turkey is about to take another step toward dictatorship

Washington Post – Mar 16

Seyla Benhabib is a professor of political science and philosophy at Yale University. On April 16, Turkish voters — some 58 million of them — will take part in a constitutional referendum proposed by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Bulgaria recalls its ambassador to Turkey for consultations amid controversy over elections

sofiaglobe.com – Clive Leviev-Sawyer – Mar 16, 6:06 AM

Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry said on March 16 that it was recalling its ambassador in Ankara, Nadezhda Neynsky, for consultations. The single-sentence statement by the Foreign Ministry gave no reason why Neynsky was being called back to Sofia, but

Erdogan angers Dutch with Srebrenica jibe

EurActiv.com by Georgi Gotev

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan prompted a fresh outcry in The Netherlands yesterday (14 February) with a jibe about the Srebrenica massacre, warning of retaliation in a spiralling diplomatic crisis.

Turkish family minister accuses Dutch of ‘savagely violating freedom’

Turkish Family Affairs and Social Policies Minister Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya has accused the Netherlands of “savagely” violating her delegation’s freedom of expression, assembly and action, during a speech at the United Nations General Assembly on March 15

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#anthropology roundup: “Ethnography in a time of upheaval…

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Ethnography in a time of upheaval – Egypt before and after the ‘Arab spring’

open Democracy News Analysis – by Leila Zaki Chakravarti and Mona Abaza

Even within the narrower parameters of public spaces, debates which might lead to issues around accountability and transparency are not hugely popular in the public eye.

Snapshots of daily life: before and after.This is the third interview in a series on the dilemmas and contradictions researchers undertake in conducting research in the Middle East. These interviews attempt to focus on questions of methodology, and the obstacles encountered by researchers when doing fieldwork in enduring political upheavals. In this interview with Leila Zaki Chakravarti, Mona Abaza explores how these issues apply within the context of contemporary Egypt.

Fornello: Connecting to Culture at the Roots

American Anthropological Association

This post was authored by Theresa Felicetti, the Project Coordinator at the John Brown Heritage Foundation and a two time participant in the Fornello project.

I come from a family of food loving Italians and mandatory Sunday lunches, where pasta sauce intake is as important as water intake. Food has always played a significant role in my life, especially my Nonna’s pasta sauce. My 83-year-old Nonna cooks with an unwavering energy that fools me into thinking we’ll be eating pasta at her house together until I’m in my 80s too. She crafts homemade pasta and sauce with such ease and consistency I convinced myself it is an ability the women in my family are born with. It is not.

Remembering Teresia Teaiwa: An Open Access Bibliography

Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology —

Scholars of the Pacific are mourning the loss of Teresia Teaiwa this week. Teresia was an iconic figure in Pacific Studies: A poet and critic, dedicated teacher, and determined institution builder. Teresia was the director of the Va‘aomanū Pasifika (Pacific Studies Center) at Victoria University in Wellington, the first and only place (afaik) where you can earn a Ph.D. in Pacific Studies.

Falling in love with @MerriamWebster in the era of Trump (and his budget proposals)

Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog by Uzma Z. Rizvi

I grew up with dictionaries. I have had my own dictionary for as long as I can remember. Even now, when I walk by one of those BIG dictionaries on a pedestal in the library, with the leather binding and almost translucent thin paper, I will run my finger down the page and read the words. I am usually looking for some word I haven’t heard of, or an etymology of a word I was unaware of, but curious about, and sometimes just to remind myself of words I already know. There continues to be something alluring about the book, and the form of the book as a vessel of knowledge.

How One Anthropologist Balances Human Skeletons And Human Rights
Forbes
The history of contact between anthropologists and Native Americans is centuries old, and conflicts have ranged from bitter to deadly. Given that the subject matter of many biological anthropologists is the human skeleton, it is not surprising that

Rogue: Scholarly Responsibility in the Time of Trump

Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology by Carole McGranahan

What if scholars need to go rogue? If anthropologists need to go rogue? In the USA right now, we are not in normal times, but in a new period of attack on academia and science, on facts and funding, on communities with whom anthropologists conduct their research, and on communities to which anthropologists belong. Our scholarly knowledge is increasingly needed in new political ways. But, how do we act effectively and with an awareness of the issues and risks involved?

Announcing SLA Spring 2018 Meeting

Society for Linguistic Anthropology

The Society for Linguistic Anthropology is pleased to announce that plans are well under way for our first Spring Conference, March 8-10, in Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania Anthropology Museum. The SLA board would like to ask SLA members to fill out a very brief (one question) survey as to whether you think you are likely to attend – this so we can make firmer plans for numbers. Here is the link: http://ift.tt/2no5Ka9

Bolivian Tsimane People Have World’s Healthiest Arteries, Study Says
Sci-News.com
According to a new study published in The Lancet, the Tsimane (pronounced chee-MAH-nay) — an indigenous people of lowland Bolivia — have the lowest reported levels of coronary artery disease of any population recorded to date, with coronary …
A tribe living in the Bolivian rainforest has the healthiest hearts in the worldZME Science
This Is the Secret to Not Getting Heart DiseaseTIME
Scientists astonished by incredible discovery deep in the jungles of BoliviaBABW News
BBC News –Live Science –The Independent
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Sunday, January 15, 2017

As Turkish Parliament to finalize charter talks this week, “HDP MP Garo Paylan temporarily suspended from parliament over ‘genocide’ comment…

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HDP MP Garo Paylan temporarily suspended from parliament over ‘genocide’ comment

A Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) lawmaker was temporarily suspended from the Turkish parliament on Jan. 13 for using the word “genocide” in reference to the World War I mass killings of Ottoman Armenians in 1915, during heated discussions on changes to the constitution

Turkish Parliament to finalize charter talks this week

Turkey appears to be on course for a referendum on constitutional reform after a number of contentious articles were passed by parliament

A small picture in the big picture of Erdogan’s Turkey

open Democracy News Analysis – by Ahmet Erdi Ozturk

The judicial arm of the Erdogan leadership has decided to make an example of her: even the most moderate critics will not be tolerated.

Istar Gözaydin, academic and social activist. On the morning of December 20, Prof. Dr. Istar Gözaydın, a public intellectual and leading scholar on state-religion relations in Turkey, was detained on charges of being a member of a terrorist organization. There was no reason to believe the accusations or any legal evidence to ground them. She was just another voice, silenced in the aftermath of the failed coup attempt in July 15. Not only for the established opposition, but for anyone who voices criticism of Erdogan´s leadership these days, it is just a matter of time before they suffer a similar fate.

How Erdogan is redefining who is a Turk

al-monitor.com – Jan 13, 2:05 AM

Author: Pinar Tremblay January 13, 2017 In the midst of a controversial constitutional amendment process and the possibility of another election or referendum approaching, Turkey is making drastic changes to its citizenship laws without any public

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