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Friday, February 19, 2016

Document: State of the Art Report of the Internet in Turkey- 2015

State of the Art Report of the Internet in Turkey- 2015

Dedicated to the memory of Özgür Uçkan, whom we lost in 2015; he was a founding member of our Association and a devoted defender of rights and freedoms on Internet…

As Alternatif Bilişim Derneği (Alternative Informatics Association) we have prepared “State of the Art Report on the Internet in Turkey” under seven different titles. In 2015 it can be concluded that the freedom of expression was prevented generally on new media environments either using technical restrictions or through legal mechanisms as a part of state’s ideological apparatus. We feel new topics must be inserted to the report namely media activism, trolling and cyber bullying, free software in Turkey and digital arts.

Here are the subtitles:

MEDIA ACTIVISM, CITIZEN JOURNALISM, ALTERNATIVE AND INDEPENDENT MEDIA

DIGITAL SURVEILLANCE AT INTERNET ENVIRONMENT

HATE SPEECH AND DISCRIMINATIVE DISCOURSE AT INTERNET ENVIRONMENT

TROLLING AND CYBER BULLYING

FREE SOFTWARE IN TURKEY

ONLINE ART PRACTICES IN TURKEY

MEDIA LITERACY AND NEW MEDIA LITERACY

We would like to thank to our members who contributed to the report as volunteers: Aslı Telli Aydemir, Fulya Çalışkan, Gülüm Şener, Melih Kırlıdoğ, Mutlu Binark, Sinan Aşçı and Zeynep Özarslan. The report has been prepared, edited and compiled collectively.

We wish 2016 to be a year during which right to access information and freedom of expression would be protected and improved; to be a year that hate speech and discriminative discourse would turn into peace discourse; to be a year of distributed rights, commons and collective productions.

Alternatif Bilişim Derneği / Alternative Informatics Association

January 12, 2016

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The US couldn’t Determine Perpetrator of Ankara Attack, but Turkey seems to have found it even before the bombing happened….

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Dispute Over Kurds Threatens U.S.-Turkey Alliance

–NYT > Turkey by By RICK GLADSTONE –

Here are five questions about the Kurds and their role in the rapidly evolving events in Syria and Turkey.

US: We couldn’t Determine Perpetrator of Ankara Attack

Bianet :: English

US has responded to the claim made by Davutoğlu and Erdoğan that the attack killing 28, wounding 61 has been launched by YPG: “We couldn’t determine perpetrator of the Ankara attack”.

US says cannot ‘confirm or deny’ YPG responsibility in Ankara blast

U.S. State Department spokesperson John Kirby has said Washington cannot “confirm or deny” whether the YPG were responsible for the Feb. 17 attack on Ankara that claimed 28 lives

Turkish PM visits scene of Ankara attack

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu visited the scene of a Feb. 17 car bombing targeting a military convoy in Ankara that killed 28 people

Turkish military continues shelling PYD targets in northern Syria

The Turkish military shelled Syria’s Democratic Union Party (PYD) targets in northern Syria on Feb. 19, continuing to respond to fire coming from the region over the past week

Turkish FM pleased US convinced of ‘PYD’s unreliability’

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has expressed his elation after his U.S. counterpart apparently agreed that Syria’s Kurds are “unreliable,” while calling on Washington to display maturity by correcting its “mistake” about their relationship with groups that are defined as “terrorists” by Ankara

Kurds Warn Turkey of ‘Big War’ With Russia If Troops Enter Syria

Bloomberg – Henry Meyer – Feb 18, 4:51 AM

Russia has promised to protect Kurdish fighters in Syria in case of a ground offensive by Turkey, a move that would lead to a “big war,” the group’s envoy to Moscow said in an interview on Wednesday. “We take this threat very

Why Turkey Bans News About Terror Bombings

huffingtonpost.com – Jan 13

Lefteris Pitarakis/Associated Press UPDATE: Feb. 17 — Turkish authorities again rushed out a temporary broadcast ban after a deadly explosion ripped through the capital city of Ankara on Wednesday. The order bans broadcasting news about the

Is your partner Turkey or PYD, Erdoğan asks US

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has denounced a senior U.S. official’s visit to Kurdish-controlled northern Syria, underlining the “mistrust” the visit has created in Ankara over the nature of Turkey’s “partnership” with the U.S.

No News Received From Syrian Journalist Taken Into Custody in Antep

Bianet :: English

Syrian journalist Rami Jarrah has been taken into custody while applying for residence permit in Antep. No news can be received from the journalist.

Turkish President angry with US visit to PYD ‘terrorists’

Ecuador conveys ‘unease’ over use of force by Turkish president’s guards

Ecuador’s Foreign Ministry has conveyed its “unease” over the use of force against its citizens by guards of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan during a demonstration in the capital of Quito, Turkish officials have confirmed