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Saturday, February 25, 2017

Rest in Peace dear Mehmet Fatih Traş…

Mehmet Fatih Traş was a teaching assistant for 6 years at Çukurova University. His contract was not renewed by the university at the end of the last academic year. The very probable reason is that he was one of the signatories of the Academics’ Peace Declaration. According news in Turkish after a period of depression, he had committed suicide…

Turkey: authoritarianism and academic ‘closure’

open Democracy News Analysis – by Burcu Degirmen and Alperen Atik

The regime’s growing assaults on journalists, intellectuals and academics at this particular moment seem aimed at promoting self-censorship ahead of the constitutional referendum in April.

Solidarity Call from 122 Academics from Amsterdam University with Academics of Turkey.

Bianet :: English

122 academics from Amsterdam University have made a call for solidarity with academics of Turkey via a statement they released.

We Will Return, Say Academics Expelled from Marmara University Faculty of Law

Bianet :: English

Those who were expelled from Marmara University Faculty of Law, have been bid farewell “for a while” in a demonstration with the participation of their colleagues, students and graduates.

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Thursday, February 25, 2016

New photo from Facebook February 25, 2016 at 09:04PM

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New photo from Facebook February 25, 2016 at 05:50PM

“5 MB”‘lık IBM hard drive’ı taşırken… yıl 1956 via Facebook Pages http://ift.tt/1heKubC

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State of Kurdish question in Turkey: “Armored ambulance starts serving in Diyarbakır…Amnesty Turkey 2015/2016 report….

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It’s Time to Kick Erdogan’s Turkey Out of NATO

huffingtonpost.com – Feb 23

Anadolu Agency via Getty Images It has always been a matter of historical curiosity that one of the American diplomats who was deeply involved in the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was named Achilles. As the head of the State…

Turkey 2015/2016

amnesty.org

The human rights situation deteriorated markedly following parliamentary elections in June and the outbreak of violence between the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Turkish armed forces in July. The media faced unprecedented pressure from the

Russia Finds Turkey’s Demand of Excluding YPG from Truce ‘Nonsense’

Bianet :: English

Russia has responded to Turkey’s statement of “YPG should be excluded from the truce” and US’ statement of “Plan B”.

Russia Blames Turkey for being ‘Aggressive’

Bianet :: English

Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Zaharova has said Turkey’s bombing on Syria from its border is provocation.

Journalist Karaoğlan Seized in Sur, Photos Deleted

Bianet :: English

Nokta magazine photo journalist Karaoğlan going to Sur within the scope of News Watch has been detained by special forces cops as she was taking photo, and all of her photos have been deleted.

Turkey thanks Merkel for support of safe zones in Syria

Turkey’s foreign minister has thanked German Chancellor Angela Merkel for her support of the Turkish government’s demand to establish safe zones inside Syria

A Kurdish Convergence in Syria

NYT > Turkey by MICHAEL CRUICKSHANK and GISSUR SIMONARSON

Turkish opposition must not wreck a rare coalition of forces that has both Russian and American backing.

Armored ambulance starts serving clash-hit southeastern Diyarbakır

An armored ambulance has been deployed in Turkey’s southeastern Diyarbakır province by the Health Ministry to serve in Diyarbakır’s Sur district where clashes between security forces and militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) are ongoing

Turkey’s increasingly desperate predicament poses real dangers

washingtonpost.com – Feb 20

Turkey is confronting what amounts to a strategic nightmare as bombs explode in its cities, its enemies encroach on its borders and its allies seemingly snub its demands. As recently as four years ago, Turkey appeared poised to become one of the

Turkish FM calls on Washington to make up its mind on YPG

Days after expressing his pleasure over seeing his U.S. counterpart agree with Turkey over the “unreliability” of the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has once more accused Washington of making conflicting statements about the YPG and PYD

Criminal Charges Against Authorities Exposing Naked Dead Bodies Of 2 Women

Bianet :: English

Diyabakır Bar Association has filed a criminal complaint against the authorities in charge exposing the naked dead bodies of two women lying on the street on charges of “disrespect towards the dead, inciting people to hatred, grudge and hostility, defamation and insulting one’s memories”.

In Photos: Commando units conduct military operations using drones

The Turkish Army has released photos from the operations of commando units in central and eastern Turkish provinces which were conducted using unmanned aerial vehicles

Turkey’s Revival of a Dirty ‘Deep State’
Consortium News
The alleged Ergenekon plot drew credibility from an all-too-real alliance of intelligence operatives, criminals and rightist terrorists exposed in the aftermath of the so-called “Susurluk Incident.” A car crash in the Turkish town of Susurluk in 1996 .

Erdogan warns Turkey’s patience will run out on Syria

EurActiv.com

Turkey’s patience may run out over the crisis in Syria and it could be forced to take action, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday (11 February), calling on the United Nations to do more to prevent what he said was “ethnic cleansing” in the country.

Pro-Erdogan Turkish papers ‘attacked’

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

Assailants hurl petrol bombs and fire shots at the offices of two pro-government Turkish newspapers in Istanbul, the papers and the police say.

Spanish MEP urges Commission to investigate Turkish army killings

EurActiv.com

Javier Couso of the European United Left-Nordic Green Left group (GUE/NGL) has asked the executive to investigate the incident in which the Turkish army killed 60 people in the southeastern town of Cizre.

Salih Müslim: We Will not Cross into West of Euphrates Without Coalition

Bianet :: English

PYD Co-Chair Müslim said YPG forces will not cross into west of the Euphrates without the coordination of US-led coalition.

Talks to restore Turkey-Israel ties going well, no deal yet: AKP spokesman

Talks between Turkey and Israel to repair ties are going well but a deal has still yet to be reached, ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) spokesman Ömer Çelik said on Feb. 11

Drone video from Turkey-Syria border shows the colossal scale of the refugee crisis

Mashable! by Christopher Miller

Drone footage shows Bab al-Salama refugee camp on Turkey-Syria border – video

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk

Drone footage shows the Bab al-Salama refugee camp on the Syrian border with Turkey. Turkish humanitarian groups IHH and the Independent Doctors Association established the camp over a matter of days to accommodate thousands of Syrian refugees. Turkey’s crossing remains closed, despite pressure from the UN to re-open its border to the increasing number of displaced people

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Cyberculture agenda: “How states manipulate social networks…

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Sockpuppets and spambots: How states manipulate social networks

firstdraftnews.com

If you’re a user of a major social network, chances are you’ve been friended, followed or mentioned by a suspicious-looking account at some point. They probably tried to sell you something or get you to click a link, and you were probably able to spot the fake and avoid the trap. It’s not tough to avoid eggs on Twitter spitting out nonsense or bikini-clad strangers who add you out of the blue on Facebook.

User Experience is not a subset of CX

Natalie Hanson, PhD by Natalie Hanson

User experience isn’t just about user interface design (though many conflate the two). Rather, the field is a convergence of art and science, including design, ergonomics and human factors engineering, the social sciences, and more. As a domain, UX has matured rapidly. Undergraduates now can study in cross-disciplinary programs that didn’t exist 10 years ago, […]

The paradox at the heart of the Snowden revelations

open Democracy News Analysis – by Didier Bigo

If proper oversight is not developed, Snowden’s legacy will have served only to reinforce one thing: the intrusiveness of global surveillance.

NSA, Fort Meade. Public Domain/Trevor Paglen.The Snowden disclosures of 2013 – through the sheer scale of the documents leaked to investigative journalists, and the precision of the data residing within the documents themselves – have partly changed the rules of the game for the signals intelligence (SIGINT) services working in western democracies. But they have also had paradoxical effects.

Neo-colonialism, Facebook style

Memex 1.1

Quote from Deepika Bahri, an English professor at Emory University who focuses on postcolonial studies, in a terrific article about Facebook’s failed campaign to have Free Basics accepted in India.

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Anthropology roundup: “Meryl Streep’s Two Anthropological Truths And One Lie…

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Meryl Streep’s Two Anthropological Truths And One Lie
Forbes
The internet and news media are taking actress Meryl Streep to task today for anthropological sounding comments she made to reporters at the Berlin International Film Festival. While part of what she said was true and even elegant, another part was a …
Meryl Streep says ‘we’re all Africans, really’? Technically, sure, but …Los Angeles Times

Cora Du Bois: Agent and rigorous anthropologist
Point Reyes Light
Cora Du Bois, an anthropologist who became the first female tenured professor at Harvard University in 1954, had a long and varied career. She studied outlier personalities in Western and American Indian cultures, wrote a book in the 1950s about .

Anthropology: Hand of the gods in human civilization
Nature.com
Pioneering anthropologists, such as Émile Durkheim and Bronisław Malinowski in the early twentieth century, have long argued that supernatural beliefs offer a powerful way to build materially cooperative societies. But in the thriving new field of

CFP: AAA 2016 in Minneapolis

FoodAnthropolog

Call for Papers

Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition

Your opportunity to present at the 115th American Anthropological Association annual meeting in Minneapolis, MN November 16-20, 2016

The sexual misconduct case that has rocked anthropology
Science Magazine
On a cold evening last March, as researchers descended upon St. Louis, Missouri, for the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA), a dramatic scene unfolded at the rooftop bar of the St. Louis Hilton at the Ballpark…
Another famous scientist investigated for sexual misconductThe Verge
American Museum of Natural History researcher faces sexual assault and harassment accusationsWashington Post

Another Scientist Under Investigation for Sexual Misconduct, When Will It All Just End?The Mary Sue

Art and ecosystem entwine at Museum of Anthropology’s new In the Footprint of the Crocodile Man exhibit
Straight.com
But the North American premiere of In the Footprint of the Crocodile Man at the Museum of Anthropology will turn the spotlight toward the world of art and how logging and mining operations may be affecting Sepik, New Guinea, an area that produces some

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