EFDbackup: January 03

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Monday, January 2, 2017

New photo from Facebook January 03, 2017 at 12:13AM

Gazetecilik tartışmaları. via Facebook Pages http://ift.tt/1heKubC

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Sunday, January 3, 2016

New photo from Facebook January 03, 2016 at 06:39PM

Osaka, Japonya’da gece. via Reddit. via Facebook Pages http://ift.tt/1heKubC

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Eurosphere agenda: A BBC piece: “Lesbos: Microcosm of Europe’s migrant crisis…

Now ordinary in Turkey’s Kurdish towns: “Woman killed after rocket projectile hits house in Turkey’s southeast…

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Woman killed after rocket projectile hits house in Turkey’s southeast

One woman was killed and another was wounded after a rocket projectile hit a house and exploded during the clashes on Jan. 3 in the Sur district of the southeastern province of Diyarbakır, where a military curfew is ongoing

Sur'da bir eve top mermisi atıldı… Bir kadın daha katledildi… #SuraSesVer http://pic.twitter.com/pRED6Avrgs

— FeminAmfi (@FeminAmfi) January 3, 2016

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Surda top mermisiyle kahvaltı sofrasında katledlen 1 anne (Biz de sadece yürüyelim oturalım dmkrtk yürüyüş diyelim) http://pic.twitter.com/fO0Nu9JpQQ

— A.Rahman Gök (@arahmangok) January 3, 2016

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Diyarbakır (AFP / İlyas Akengin) http://pic.twitter.com/W9q1JPiN3l

— kübra akalın (@kubraakalin) January 3, 2016

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Anthropology roundup: “Sidney Mintz, Founding Father of Food Anthropology, Has Died…

Journalism agenda: A BBC selection of viral news images that mislead us in 2015…

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The haunting picture shared during the Nepal earthquake

Picture of two children hugging

This was one of the most shared photos in the wake of the Nepal earthquake in April. It’s not a fake, but misleading nonetheless.

Labelled as showing a “two-year-old sister protected by four-year-old brother in Nepal”, it was shared across Facebook and Twitter and prompted calls for donations.

The photograph was actually taken in a remote village in Vietnam back in 2007.

“This is perhaps my most shared photo,” says the photographer Na Son Nguyen, “but unfortunately in the wrong context.”

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Those Demanding Free Speech Limits to Fight ISIS Pose a Greater Threat to U.S. Than ISIS

The Intercept by Glenn Greenwald

In 2006 – years before ISIS replaced Al Qaeda as the New and Unprecedentedly Evil Villain – Newt Gingrich gave a speech in New Hampshire in which, as he put it afterward, he “called for a serious debate about the First Amendment and how terrorists are abusing our rights–using them as they once used passenger jets–to threaten and kill Americans.” In that speech, Gingrich argued:

Facebook is testing multiple, interest-based news feeds

Mashable! by Stan Schroeder

Your Facebook News Feed might become a whole lot more diverse soon

69 journalists were killed this year. Who they were, what they covered

Mashable! by Jason Abbruzzese

Hebdo-memorial

It was another bloody year for journalists, with turmoil in the Middle East and terrorism striking France twice in 2015.

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Al Jazeera and BBC believes Turkish exporters suffer after Russia sanctions…

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An unhappy New Year for Turkey’s exporters to Russia

AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (IN DEPTH)

Moscow’s sanctions, which officially take effect on January 1, come in response to Turkey’s downing of a Russian jet.

‘Recreation of playing cards’: Seymour Hersh on conflicting pursuits in Syria
The Times (subscription)
Turkey “co-opted” the US program “to arm and support the moderate rebels fighting Assad,” a former senior adviser to the Joint Chiefs of Staff told Hersh. … Wikileaks that the US State Department worked to encourage the opposition. In reality, Hersh .

Turks face big losses as Russia sanctions bite

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

Russian boycott hits the Turkish export market

Iraq FM tells Turkey to pull out of north, threatens action

Iraq’s foreign minister has reiterated demands that Turkish troops pull out of northern Iraq, warning Ankara that Baghdad may otherwise have to consider military action

Russia prohibits Turkish firms from construction, tourism, services for state

Russia will prohibit Turkish companies from construction, tourism, the hotel business and services for state and municipal needs from Jan. 1, the Russian gov’t said

Turkey Responds to Russia: Example of Black Humor

Bianet :: English

Spokesperson of Foreign Ministry Bilgiç said, “Russia attempting to lecture others on human rights is an example of black humor” in response to Russia’s remarks on human rights violations in Turkey’s Kurdish cities.

Russia excludes 10 Turkish brands from sanctions list: Report

Russia has excluded a total of 10 Turkish brands, including Colin’s, LC Waikiki and Anadolu Efes, from a list of sanctioned Turkish companies, daily Habertürk has reported

In Photos: Turkey provides assistance in rare UN-backed swap deal

Turkey has provided assistance for a rare United Nations-backed deal to evacuate fighters, civilians and the wounded from three flashpoint areas in Syria as part of a six-month truce reached in September

Fresh water crisis grows in Turkish Cyprus over authorization dispute

Fresh water has been pumped through a new pipeline to the sea rather than to households in Turkish Cyprus, amid an unresolved dispute between Turkey and Turkish Cyprus over who will run the water affairs of the newly-built pipeline

Serbian politician’s remark ‘unfortunate’

Serbian President’s claims that Turkey attempted to start a war between NATO and Russia with the downing of Russian warplane are “unfortunate,” MFA spokesperson has said