Turkish military official in Syria… #EuphratesShield #Cerablus

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Turkish Special Forces: From stopping a coup to the frontline of the ISIL fight

The Turkish Special Forces are playing a key role in the operation launched at 04.00 a.m. on Aug. 24 to back the Free Syrian Army (FSA) to free the Syrian town of Jarablus from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)

"Keklice ve #Cerablus bölgesinde tespit edilen hedeflere F-16'lar hava taarruzu icra ediyor" https://t.co/3yju6Ft9lj http://pic.twitter.com/LBOHbdnd2X

— Al Jazeera Türk (@AJTurk) August 24, 2016

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IŞİD'e yönelik harekatın sürdüğü #Cerablus'ta ÖSO güçlerinin tanklar önündeki görüntüleri paylaşılıyor. @sayed_ridha http://pic.twitter.com/BqECytm51I

— 140journos (@140journos) August 24, 2016

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#Cerablus 'a büyük harekatı başlattık. Allah Türkiye'yi ve Milletimizi korusun. https://t.co/3LpPp8W8mm http://pic.twitter.com/Q00yR9lZNz

— Metin Feyzioğlu (@metinfeyzioglu) August 24, 2016

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Turkish troops enter Syria in major operation against Isis

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

Campaign aims to ‘cleanse’ jihadis from Jarablus – terror group’s last key hub on the 500-mile Syria-Turkey border

US VP Joe Biden arrives in Turkish capital amid Jerablus operation

The U.S. Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Ankara on Aug. 24, hours after a joint operation by the Turkish military and coalition forces was launched to capture the ISIL-held Jarablus region in Syria

Timeline of Operation Euphrates Shield

Turkish armed forces has begun its cross-border “Euphrates Shield” operation against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) early on Aug. 24 both with aerial strikes and with ground forces backed by strikes from rocket launchers, howitzers and tanks

LIVE: Turkish military, coalition forces launch ‘Euphrates Shield’ operation in Jarablus

 Hurriyet Daily News

The Turkish armed forces has begun its cross-border “Euphrates Shield” operation against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) early on Aug. 24 with aerial strikes and with ground forces backed by strikes from rocket launchers, howitzers and tanks

Turkey will be defeated as ISIL in Syria: PYD head Muslim

Turkey will be defeated as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria, according to Salih Muslim, the head of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD)

Erdoğan to PYD: Those issuing threats should think what will happen

The Turkish military launched the Jerablus operation “against terror organizations such as DAESH and the PYD,” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said

Turkish Military Begins Ground Operation Into Syria

 NYT > Turkey by By CEYLAN YEGINSU

The incursion, backed by U.S. air support, drastically escalates Turkey’s role in the Syrian conflict in an effort meant to clear Islamic State militants from the border.

Chief of Staff at the operation HQ

Turkey Launches Operation on ISIS in Syria

Bianet :: English

A campaign has been launched by Turkish Armed Forces Joint Special Mission Forces and US-led coalition air forces on ISIS in Jarablus region in Aleppo in Syria.

US VP Biden visits Turkish Parliament, bombed during failed coup attempt

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on the morning of Aug. 24 paid a visit to the Turkish Parliament, which was bombarded by soldiers attempting to stage a military coup on July 15

Turkey Says Operation Launched to Free ISIS-Held Town in Syria

NYT > Turkey by By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Turkey’s prime minister’s office said the Turkish military and the U.S.-backed coalition forces on Wednesday launched an operation to clear a Syrian border town from Islamic State militants.

Syria Jarablus: Turkish tanks roll into northern Syria

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

Turkey sends tanks across the Syrian border after bombarding positions held by so-called Islamic State, in an operation also aimed at deterring Kurdish fighters.

Turkey evacuates town amid anti-IS Syria campaign

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

Turkey evacuated Karkamis near Syria, as it prepares an offensive against so-called Islamic State holding Jarablus.

Kurds Close to Control of Northeast Syria Province, Portending a Shift in the War

 NYT > Turkey by By ANNE BARNARD

A cease-fire with the Syrian government puts Kurdish militias much closer to control of Hasaka Province, which would be the third lost by President Bashar al-Assad.

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A maths teacher @ekolhoca uses @Periscopeco for educational purposes and already covered in the Independent…

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Ekol Hoca, from Izmir in Turkey, is not an ordinary maths teacher.

Every day he’s at the whiteboard by 5.30am, ready to instruct more than 1,000 students via the livestreaming app Periscope – and he doesn’t even get paid for it. Continue to read here

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Housing, food and transport total over half of household spending in Turkey

The results of a new survey by the Turkish Statistics Institute (TÜİK) have shown the majority of household spending in Turkey in 2014 went to housing and house rentals, food and transportation.

Syrian migrants denied entry to İzmir mosque

A group of Syrian migrants have been denied entry to a mosque in the Aegean province of İzmir, after spending days at the mosque in an effort to secure basic living needs, such as food and accommodation.

Turkey’s blue collar workers cite poor conditions as main reason to find new job: Poll

A majority of blue collar workers have named poor working conditions as the biggest reason to find a new job, according to a survey by Eleman.net, a leading recruitment website for this group of laborers.

Best souvenirs to buy from 30 places in Turkey

Are you traveling in Turkey and not sure what souvenir to buy or what local speciality to try in which place? We have a list for you, inevitably dominated by traditional art and food

VIDEO: Istanbul street band attacked for playing ‘Jewish marches’

‘You can’t play Jewish marches here, you can’t play Israeli music here,’ an angry man told the band members in Istanbul’s Avcılar neighborhood while they were playing ‘Bella ciao’

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Eurosphere agenda: “Schengen in crisis…

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Playing dirty in the EU Referendum

Ideas on Europe

Carb-loading for the autumn ahead

Schengen in danger, Germany warns

 EurActiv.com

France’s President François Hollande and Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel will discuss quotas for accepting migrants at their meeting today (24 August), French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said yesterday.

MAIN FOCUS: Schengen criticised after attack in Thalys | 24/08/2015

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Following the thwarted attack on a French train on Friday evening, the authorities are assuming radical Islamic motives on the part of the alleged perpetrator. Belgium’s prime minister has demanded changes in the Schengen regulations. Some commentators argue that Europe’s open borders make planning terrorist attacks easier. Others emphasise that Europe will only be able to fight terror on the basis of a common security policy.

VIDEO: France honours train attack heroes

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

Three Americans and a Briton who foiled a suspected terror attack on a train receive France’s top honour from President Francois Hollande.

Asylum centre clashes alarm Germany

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel visits an asylum seekers’ shelter where dozens of police were hurt in clashes with right-wing demonstrators.

MAIN FOCUS: European parliaments vote for bailout package | 20/08/2015

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The German Bundestag approved a third bailout package for Athens on Wednesday. The parliaments in Spain, Austria, Estonia and the Netherlands have also given it the green light this week. Some commentators see the move as proof of the resilience of European solidarity. For others, Europe has missed the chance to reshape its future.

 

Poll: Far-right party now biggest in Sweden

EurActiv.com

For the first time, the far-right Sweden Democrats are the biggest party in Sweden. According to a Yougov poll commisioned by Metro, the extremists would receive 25.2% of the vote if there was an election today, ahead of the governing centre-left Social Democrats, at 23.4%.

 

The refugee crisis facing fortress Europe

open Democracy News Analysis – by Petra Gümplová

The ‘humanitarianism’ of military control, detention, and deportation, will not solve the refugee crisis facing Europe. Substantial changes in thought and practice are desperately needed.

 

The third Greek bailout and the challenge to national democracy (in Athens and beyond)

Open Europe blog by Vincenzo Scarpetta

The third Greek bailout and the challenge to national democracy (in Athens and beyond)

With the third Greek bailout officially under way, our policy analyst Vincenzo Scarpetta looks at how the debates and votes on the rescue package in a number of national parliaments have once again highlighted the underlying tension between Eurozone membership and national democracy.

Myth-busting the ‘Nazi gold train’

 BBC News | Europe | World Edition

Is there truth behind the alleged discovery of a Nazi train stashed with gold?

The Plight of Refugees, the Shame of the World

 NYT > Turkey by By ZEYNEP TUFEKCI

Children are resilient when given a chance. It’s a shame how few are.

Published on Jan 26, 2015

Since 2000, more than 27,000 migrants and refugees have died attempting the perilous journey to Europe. With an unprecedented number of people breaking through its heavily barricaded borders in 2014, the EU continues to fortify its frontiers.

VICE News presents Europe or Die, a new four-part series that documents the efforts of those risking their lives to reach Europe, and the forces tasked to keep them out.

In episode one of our series, VICE News correspondent Milène Larsson travels to the border between Morocco and Spain, where West Africans in their thousands storm the razor-wire-clad fences. Many are beaten back by border police or illegally returned.

Watch “The Human Cost of War in the Central African Republic” – http://bit.ly/15xC4L2

Read “Guards Break Barricades and Jail Dozens as Refugees Continue Mass Hunger Strike Against Australia” – http://bit.ly/1Jq1f1b

Read “Asylum Seekers in Australia Could Soon Be Headed to Cambodia” – http://bit.ly/15mghWm

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5. Eurosphere agenda: Greek elections tomorrow. Syriza is comin’

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Cyberculture agenda: “Most popular programming languages shift at Github

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Most popular programming languages shift at Github

Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza

Driven by the web and Android, Javascript and Java reign. Ruby and C lose ground. PHP lumbers on, impervious. Somewhere in the distance, a Perl script barks mournfully.

Wargames-style map shows ongoing internet attacks

Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza

The Norse Map is a Wargames-style visualization of ongoing attacks on servers around the world. Though it shows honeypots rather than actual private or government targets, the result is a live snapshot of trends in computer mischief.

Pinterest and Instagram Users on the Rise – LinkedIn and Twitter, not so Much [Report]

 Social Media Today by Andrew Hutchinson

New data from Pew Research has found that the proportion of online Americans who use Pinterest and Instagram has doubled since Pew first started tracking social media platform adoption in 2012. Use of Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, on the other hand, is now starting to slow.

Pew: More Than a Third of Smartphone Owners Use Messaging Apps

 All Facebook by Sonja Hegman Andras

Survey: 35% of Users Check Their Phones More than 50 Times Per Day

All Facebook by Brandy Shaul

Social Advocacy and Politics: Wikipedia, Paid Editors and the 2016 Elections

Social Media Today by Alan Rosenblatt

With rare exceptions, if you Google a political candidate you’ll get a link to his or her Wikipedia page among the top five results. Certainly this is true for the presidential candidates, and certainly we can all understand why they should be extremely concerned about what’s said about them there. And while there is great motivation for candidates to either modify their entries themselves, direct their staff to do so or hire an editorial consultant, all of these actions are frowned upon by Wikipedia’s editorial policy

The End of the Internet Dream: the speech that won Black Hat (and Defcon)

 Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow

“The End of the Internet Dream,” cyberlawyer Jennifer Granick’s keynote at Black Hat, was all anyone could talk about at this year’s Defcon — Black Hat being the grown-up, buttoned-down, military-industrial cousin to Defcon’s wild and exuberant anarchy.

 

YouTube Is the Sleeping Giant of Livestreaming

Wired Top Stories by David Pierce

YouTube is beginning to take livestreaming seriously, and it could change the Internet.

Here’s how you can turn your photos into beautiful emoji mosaics

The Next Web by Lauren Hockenson

The history of mosaic — the art of creating a whole picture with shards of glass or other materials, has been around since at least the 3rd millennium B.C., appearing in places like Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome and Damascus — is long and storied.

Convert your face into emoji

 Boing Boing by Laura Hudson

Like most humans with a smartphone and a sense of joie de vivre, I enjoy peppering my communications liberally with emoji. But until today, I could not actually be emoji. All that has changed, thanks to the Emoji Mosaic tool created by Eric Andrew Lewis.

There are 38 new emoji candidates, and one needs to be rejected immediately

 The Next Web by Nate Swanner

The next time you go to send an emoji to a friend, there may be more options. The Unicode Consortium has accepted 38 new mock-ups as candidates for inclusion — but I accept only 37 of them. There are some cute ones, like a cowboy or a prince.

United States of Emoji: SwiftKey tells you the most popular emoji where you are

The Next Web by Amanda Connolly

SwiftKey’s keyboard for iOS got an update today that will show you the emojis you use the most. Yes, it has been keeping track of how many  you send. In July, people using the iPhone beta version got an update to show their signature emoji – the one they use more than anyone else. With this latest update, all SwiftKey Cloud users on iOS will also be able to see their signature emoji. It’s also tracking which emoji are used most frequently in each US state too, so it’ll tell you where you’d best fit in. No, I’m not joking. SwiftKey…

BuzzFeed gets $200 mn from Comcast’s NBCUniversal

BuzzFeed said Aug. 18 it secured a $200 million investment from Comcast’s NBCUniversal, the latest major cash infusion into the digital news sector

NYT report: Amazon is hell to work at

Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza

The New York Times exposes a brutal, cultlike environment of midnight phone calls, mind-numbing jargon and sadistic management. Bosses encourage workers to tear one another down. Workers cry at their desks.

Jeff Bezos responds to attack on Amazon’s employment practices

 The Next Web by Abhimanyu Ghoshal

Following a New York Times piece on the alleged stifling work conditions at Amazon, a company spokesman forwarded an email to us penned by CEO Jeff Bezos: Dear Amazonians, If you haven’t already, I encourage you to give this (very long) New York Times article a careful read:

Mobile Live Streaming for Business: Periscope and Meerkat

Social Media Today by Alice Fuller

With so many different live mobile video streaming services and apps out there, it’s hard to know which one to use. That’s why we’ve detailed the ups and downs of using Periscope and Meerkat in this post.

A New Kind of Digital Crime: Cyber Flashing

 Social Media Today

Last year the Internet focused on the much-reported backpack video of a woman being catcalled more than 100 times in three hours of walking around New York City. In that instance, the viral video showed us through digital devices the kind of harassment women–or at least women living in cities– have to deal with every day.

Bangladesh widens operation to catch killers of blogger

 AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (IN DEPTH)

Dhaka police looking for six men over the death of Niloy Chatterjee, after two suspects were arrested on Thursday.

The hit list: Endangered bloggers of Bangladesh

AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (IN DEPTH)

Blogger deaths in Bangladesh intimidate activists and hurt the freedom of speech.

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