Showing posts with label January 21. Show all posts
Showing posts with label January 21. Show all posts

Saturday, January 21, 2017

From Turkey with Love: A Strange shoot-out in Bursa…

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A video showing a gun shoot-out between three people in the Marmara province of Bursa on Jan. 19 went viral on social media as the reason for the fight remains unknown.

 

2,200 Metal Workers on Strike

 
Workers went on strike today upon disagreement between United Metal-Labor Union and Electromechanics Metal Employer Union over collective labor agreement that involves 2,200 workers.
 
A leading retailer has said the sector has been experiencing its “most catastrophic” times due to heavy losses in the value of the Turkish Lira, which has hit purchasing power, and a number of new regulations, noting that revenue losses have hit up to 40 percent

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#Journalism agenda: “Major Fake News Operation Tracked Back to Republican Operative

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Cam Harris, a recent college graduate hoping to build a career as a political consultant, received an unwelcome email from a New York Times reporter this month. As the reporter, Scott Shane, recounted on the front page of Thursday’s Times, he had discovered that Harris was the publisher of a fake news site dedicated to smearing Hillary Clinton.

 

The BBC sets up a taskforce to fight back against fake news

 

The uphill battle against fake news (and correctly using the term “fake news” in the first place) continues. The latest effort to debunk made-up information is British broadcaster BBC.

 
The non-profit organisation is working with news outlets, journalism schools and civil-rights groups to help reporters cover these issues at the local level

Another survey finds users aren’t that engaged with online video

 

News organizations have been producing loads of video content to fill social media feeds and attract higher ad rates, but a new report from the social analytics firm Parse.ly finds that users engage with video much less than other content types.

Follow this advice to create and share interactive images on Twitter

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Thursday, January 21, 2016

Just what Turkey needs: “Erdoğan biopic to hit Turkish screens

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Shooting will start next week on a feature film tracing the early career of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan from his childhood in a poor district in Istanbul to his rise to become the city’s mayor, its producers said Jan. 15

Unemployment continues to stand at double digits in Turkey

The unemployment rate in Turkey rose to 10.5 percent in October 2015 from 10.3 percent in September 2015, according to data from the Turkish Statistics Agency (TÜİK)
Turkey’s government ran a 22.6 billion Turkish Liras ($7.4 billion) budget deficit last year, Turkey’s finance minister announced in a press conference Jan. 15

Turkey ‘acting illegally’ over Syria refugees

BBC investigates claims that Turkey is returning Syria refugees
Turkey is to grant work permits to Syrian refugees, an official statement said Jan. 15, in a key move which could allow Syrians to build more prosperous and stable lives in the country

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New photo from Facebook January 21, 2016 at 08:41PM

Yemen’de radyo dinleyen bir Haham. 1935. via Reddit. via Facebook Pages http://ift.tt/1heKubC

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“Stiglitz at Davos Blasts Turkey’s Blacklisting of Professors” While Ankara Mayor’s son’s website targets academicians by listing them with photos…

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Bloomberg – Isobel Finkel – Jan 21, 1:21 AM

You can’t become a knowledge economy by going after your brightest minds. So says Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize winner in economics, speaking after Turkey’s highest education authority last week announced an investigation into more than 1,100

 

Here is where all the academicians who signed the Peace Statement listed: 

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independent.co.uk – Jan 19, 11:13 AM

Turkey’s popular Beyaz Show took a more sombre turn than usual one evening earlier this month. The live entertainment programme aired a call from a woman who gave her name as Ayse Celik. She described herself as a teacher from the city of

Academics from 160 universities have expressed support for “Academics for Peace”.
Smear campaign against Academics for Peace

A peace manifesto circulated by many Turkish academicians against the political war being conducted by the Turkish Government in the Kurdish region of Turkey has prompted a severe reaction.

Student protest against YOK dispersed by Istanbul riot police outside University of Istanbul using tear gas and rubber bullets. Student protest against YOK dispersed by Istanbul riot police outside University of Istanbul using teargas and rubber bullets, 2015. Demotix/ Sahan Nuhoglu. All rights reserved.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled for Turkey to be fined over a police raid on the office building of Nokta magazine upon a military court ruling in 2007 stating that the raid constituted a violation of freedom of expression
Three academics from Sakarya University signing declaration released by Academics for Peace Initiative have been released following prosecution questioning after be detained.
Attorneys Cinmen and İlkiz have noted that the academics could sue the President for damages on account of defaming them by using expressions such as “crappy so-called, scum and dark”.
Turkey: Teacher Jailed for Gesture
A court on Wednesday sentenced a teacher to almost a year in prison for making a rude gesture at President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a political rally in 2014.

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New photo from Facebook January 21, 2016 at 04:03PM

Çekilen ilk kedi fotoğraflarından biri olduğu iddia ediliyor (1880-1890): via Facebook Pages http://ift.tt/1heKubC

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New photo from Facebook January 21, 2016 at 12:57PM

Bu küfürü daha önce duymamıştım. İnsan hergün yeni birşey öğreniyor. Hakkaten de durum öyle yalnız. via Facebook Pages http://ift.tt/1heKubC

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Deputies and journalists are directly targeted as Amnesty warns ” Turkish army operations ‘beginning to resemble collective punishment’…

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The Turkish military operations backed by curfews in the country’s southeast have begun to resemble “collective punishment,” Amnesty International said on Jan. 20
EU Commissioner for Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn has called for an urgent ceasefire and a return to peace talks, stressing that measures taken by Turkey must be “targeted and proportional” and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) must lay down its arms
At least 15 institutions and 500 state officers will be reassigned in 90 days in line with the plan of moving Hakkari and Şırnak provincial centrals to Yüksekova and Cizre districts.

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Wednesday, January 21, 2015