Thursday, August 11, 2016
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
While escalation of violence continues, State of Turkish Judiciary: the Prosecutor, hero of coup cases, flees to Georgia to escape arrest…
APA
Prosecutor Zekeriya Öz who led probes into the Ergenekon case and prepared an indictment in Turkey has fled the country. Governor of Artvin Kamal Cirit has said Zekeriya Öz’s counterpart Celal Kara too crossed into Armenia from Georgia, APA reports …
Detention warrants issued for 3 prosecutors overseeing Dec. 17 graft probeToday’s Zaman
Warrant issued for Turkish prosecutors who conducted key graft probeBGN NEWS
After two years of relative calm the sounds of war have returned to south-eastern Turkey. The Kurds are worried, but they’re also angry – and many blame Erdoğan
The racket of machine-gun fire rips through the evening silence. Plumes of smoke rise from the surrounding mountains where salvoes of missiles have set forests and farmland ablaze.
Nine people died in a series of attacks in Turkey on Monday. The government has blamed most of the violence on the banned Kurdish Workers’ Party PKK. Chaos in the country is most opportune for President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, some commentators write. Others voice disappointment that terror is all the PKK has to offer.
232 Turkish Scholars Call for International Help Facilitating Kurdish Peace Process
Supporters of the Leftist HDP party celebrate making it to the Turkish parliament. (Source: ROARmag)
• Fenerbahce condemn attack as terrorism
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- In 2 days, Turkey’s HSYK shaped by gov’t, Erdoğan slams nearly all opposition as traitors and Police powers increased….
- Turkish state finally allows Funerals of 13 YPG/YPJ waiting in the border for more than 10 days… “7.5-year prison sentence sought for 18 Turkish journalists…
- “NATO calls emergency meeting at Turkey’s request… Let’s see how Turkey will explain its position…
- Turkey’s new Major General was acquitted of unidentified murders of 13 villagers…
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Journalism agenda: “Azeri journalist dies after beating… “NYT innovations…
Julia Haslanger wants to know how much you make.
Last Friday, Haslanger, a graduate student in CUNY’s social journalism program, released Journo Salary Sharer, which asks journalists to anonymously share their salary information in order to help start a conversation about how much people in different positions throughout the journalism world earn.
Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of stories on how news organizations manage their mobile news alerts. Check in each day this week to see how The New York Times, CNN, Breaking News, The Wall Street Journal, and the Detroit Free Press decide which news warrants a push notification, and learn about the process each goes through to send alerts out to their readers. First up: The Times. —LO
If, half a decade ago, you’d been able to put money down in Vegas on The New York Times’ chances of reaching 1 million digital subscribers by 2015, what kind of odds could you have gotten? Longer than longshot. In 2010, when the Timesannounced it would put up a paywall, hardly anyone thought readers would pay for that sort of “commodity” — general news — on the web. TimesSelect, the Times’ first foray into digital paid content in the mid-2000s, had gone bust, and the program’s name served as an easy punchline for the conventional wisdom of the moment.
Since putting up its paywall in 2011, the The New York Times finally has one million subscribers paying for digital content.
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- Journalism agenda: A CIA agent sentenced to 42 months for leaking to NYT…
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Cyberculture agenda: #Alphabet is the new Google
Rarely is the Internet simply handed a joke fest on this scale.
Google has reorganized itself into multiple companies, spinning off several of its most ambitious projects alongside its core Internet business under a new umbrella company called Alphabet.
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What was Google before? To most people it was a ‘search’ company. It is the name that became a verb. I’ll just Google that for you.
When you’re the world’s dominant Internet company, you need a great URL. And Alphabet, Google’s new parent company, doesn’t disappoint.
If you know Sundar Pichai at all, it’s probably because you’ve suffered through one of the three-hour long Google I/O keynotes he has anchored in recent years. Softly spoken and thickly accented with a gangly, slightly stooped posture, it’s fair to say Pichai is not the world’s most charismatic stage presence
Google as we know it will no longer exist. The company is reorganizing under a new umbrella structure called Alphabet, helmed by Google co-founders Larry Page as CEO and Sergey Brin as President.
The father in Cleveland, Ohio who owns @alphabet is having a very good day.
Google just dropped a huge bomb on the tech world today that it will be restructuring under a new umbrella company called Alphabet. It also offered up a new website to go along with the announcement: abc.xyz In typical Google fashion, the site has a childlike aura, playing with alphabet blocks as the concept for all the companies that will fall under Alphabet, Inc. An obvious example: G is for Google. Then I looked over to the right of the page. And my eyes cannot unsee. “MAD SEX”? Google/Alphabet has officially become the Disney of tech landing pages. Intentional or…
Along with its new name, some of Google’s businesses are splitting off to become their own separate companies. Here’s a breakdown.
WIRED has followed Google since the beginning. From its roots to the present day, the history of the company formerly known as Google offers hints at where Alphabet might be headed.
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Monday, August 10, 2015
Eurosphere agenda: “German treason inquiry dropped
Tonnes of food imported to Russia from the West despite an embargo and confiscated by customs officers has been destroyed since Thursday. While some commentators see this as a sacrilege, others question the effectiveness of the EU sanctions that preceded Moscow’s food embargo.
The anti-war movement, with all its errors and omissions, is central to Corbyn’s popular appeal.
After five years of crisis marked by rising technocracy and #ThisIsACouphashtags, is the hope of a truly democratic Europe still real? In this second episode of the new web-show TalkReal we continue asking whether change in Europe is still possible. (Video, 23 mins)
EU politicians can promote ‘European’ values by stopping their support for autocratic regimes, and by starting to ask tough questions about radicalisation.
The European Commission today approved €2.4 of aid over six years for countries including Greece and Italy that have struggled to cope with a surge in numbers of immigrants.
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- Eurosphere agenda: Greek exit polls signal #Syriza win
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