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Wednesday, January 6, 2016

As a rare good news: Turkey released Mohammed Rasool of Vice News after 4 months…

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Vice journalist Mohammed Rasool released from prison in Turkey

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Jasper Jackson

Iraqi reporter was detained in August filming clashes between authorities and PKK and charged with aiding terrorists,

Vice News journalist released by Turkey

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

An Iraqi Kurdish journalist is released after 131 days in a Turkish prison, according to his employer Vice News.

Turkey frees Vice News reporter after 131 days in jail

AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (IN DEPTH)

Mohammed Rasool and his two colleagues were arrested after filming clashes between the army and PKK youth members.

Turkey Releases Iraqi Kurdish Journalist Working for Vice News

NYT > Turkey by By CEYLAN YEGINSU

Mohammed Rasool was arrested in August on terrorism charges while covering the clashes between Kurdish fighters and Turkey’s security forces.

VICE News journalist released in Turkey after 131 days arrested

VICE News journalist and fixer Mohammed Rasool, who was arrested in southeastern Turkey 131 days ago, was finally released from jail on Jan. 5

Top US commander arrives in Ankara amid regional tensions

The United States’ top commander arrived in Ankara on Jan. 5 for a meeting with his Turkish counterpart amid an escalation in regional tensions

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Eurosphere agenda: Anniversary of Charlie Hebdo attack- Cologne Sex Attacks- Germany received 1 million refugees in 2015…

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MAIN FOCUS: Paris commemorates Charlie Hebdo victims | 06/01/2016

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The victims of the attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and the hostage taking in a Jewish supermarket were commemorated in Paris on Tuesday. A year after the attacks France’s politicians have still done nothing to tackle the roots of the terror, some commentators complain. For others, fear-driven self-censorship is threatening freedom of opinion.

Confirmation: Germany welcomed 1 million refugees in 2015

EurActiv.com

The confirmation could strengthen Horst Seehofer’s demand for a cap on numbers. Today (6 January), the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) leader will meet with the Chancellor, Angela Merkel (CDU), where they are both expected to discuss refugee policy.

How the Charlie Hebdo attack changed France

AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (IN DEPTH)

Most of France supports the limitations on their liberties in the fight against terrorism – for now.

Cologne sex attacks: What went wrong?

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

How could Cologne sex attacks be allowed to happen?

From Charlie Hebdo attacks to a state of emergency

AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (IN DEPTH)

Majority of raids have been conducted on Muslim homes, businesses and places of worship using emergency powers.

At least 34 migrants die in latest tragedy of 2016 on Aegean Sea

Tragedy strikes the Aegean once more as at least 34 refugees perish in stormy seas in an ill-fated bid to reach a better life in Europe

Germany says EU policies to stop migrants are not working

EurActiv.com

A German official told the Brussels press today (6 January) – in the presence of the EU Commissioner for Migration – that European policies to tackle the refugee crisis are not working properly, and as a consequence the number of refugees arriving in Germany has not declined.

Freezing weather hits central and eastern Europe

AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (IN DEPTH)

Europe receives copious amount of snowfall that has resulted in temperatures dipping below zero in many countries.

VIDEO: Cologne attack ‘left me scarred for life’

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

Hundred of people in Cologne have been protesting about violence against women in the wake of sexual assaults allegedly carried out on New Year’s Eve.

Germans debate responsibility for sexual assaults

EurActiv.com

About 90 women have reported being robbed, threatened or sexually molested at New Year celebrations outside Cologne’s cathedral by young, mostly drunk, men, police said yesterday (4 January), in events they have described as “a new dimension in crime”.

Polish president comes to Brussels with heavy agenda

EurActiv.com

Polish President Andrzej Duda will visit Brussels on 18 January following a planned European Commission debate on the rule of law in Poland, whose government has sparked concern by pushing through controversial changes to the judiciary and media.

The ‘Podemos wave’ as a global hope

open Democracy News Analysis – by Bernardo Gutiérrez González

Podemos’ bursting into Spain’s parliament is a breath of fresh air for the Left, and for the global movements seeking to replicate the Spanish political phenomenon. Español

Podemos’ crowds celebrate huge gains in Spanish general elections, Madrid, 21 December 2015. Demotix/Michael Debets. Some rights reserved.

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New photo from Facebook January 06, 2016 at 01:59PM

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As of yesterday, 25 women including 3 female politicians, 44 children killed in Turkey’s Kurdish cities…

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Number of killed mentioned here in Turkish.

50 dead still await to be buried in Sur, Cizre and Silopi.

3 Politician Women Killed in Silopi

Bianet :: English

Three politician women who were killed as trying to get to Yeşilyurt neighborhood from Karşıyaka neighborhood in Silopi have been determined as DBP PM Seve Demir, KJA member Fatma Uyar, and Silopi People’s Assembly Co-Chair Pakize Nayır.

More than 100 municipalities probed, ten mayors jailed in Turkey’s southeast

Ten mayors from the Democratic Regions Party (DBP), the sister party of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), have been suspended and detained, while 106 municipalities under the DBP have been subject to investigations on charges related to “autonomy,” “co-leadership” and “terror.”

15 Years of Imprisonment for Bekir Kaya

Bianet :: English

Van Metropolitan Municipality Co-Mayor Bekir Kaya has been sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment within the trial he had been put on with charges of being a member of the terrorist organization. At the moment, 16 Municipality Co-Mayors sit in prison.

Demirtaş: Suggesting Hitler Model is Legal, Swedish Model is not

Bianet :: English

HDP Co-Chair Demirtaş has reacted against PM addressing Kurdish people as “local community”.

HDP leader lays down gauntlet, calls for lifting of own immunity

Amid rising calls for the parliamentary immunity of Kurdish problem-focused Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) MPs to be lifted, HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş has said his party is ready for the lifting of immunity of all members of parliament