Showing posts with label July 06. Show all posts
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Thursday, July 6, 2017

Police raided a digital security workshop and detained 12 human rights activists, including director of Amnesty Turkey…

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Human rights advocates from various human rights organizations holding a training meeting in Büyükada on protection of human rights advocates were detained yesterday.

Amnesty says Turkey director and activists detained in Istanbul

Idil Eser, head of Amnesty International Turkey, taken away during ‘digital security and information management workshop’

Police have detained 12 people, including the Turkey head of Amnesty International, İdil Eser, and other rights activists at a meeting on an island near Istanbul.
Holding a statement regarding human rights defenders including Amnesty International Turkey Director İdil Eser being taken into custody in a raid while holding a workshop yesterday in Büyükada, Amnesty international has demanded release of the detainees.
The Guardian – Kareem Shaheen – Jul 5, 2:15 AM

The health of two hunger strikers held in Turkish government custody who have not eaten for 118 days is rapidly deteriorating, according to their lawyers, who have urged the authorities to respond to their demands before the damage to their bodies

77 LGBTI and women’s organizations joined the Justice March launched by the CHP from Ankara to İstanbul on its 22nd day.
Interpol has denied reports that it has removed Turkey from its database after Ankara uploaded a list of 60,000 people sought over suspected links to Gülen
Turkey has entered the first evaluation phase concerning implementation of Istanbul Convention in domestic law. As the state submits its own report to convention’s inspection body GREVIO, bianet has prepared a Shadow Report.

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Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Monday, July 6, 2015

New photo from Facebook July 06, 2015 at 06:45PM

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Cyberculture agenda: Dictators’ favorite surveillance company hacked, Turkey files also exposed!

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Here is the link to Turkey related files.

Turkish Police forces paid 150 K, Here is the invoice

“Hacking Team” is a badly-named security contractor that helps governments spy on activists and journalists. It got hacked, badly, and more than 400GB of its data is now public.

SVDictionary
Whether you’re tired of hearing newfangled phrases in discussions about tech or are still recovering from Post Silicon Valley Move Stress Disorder , there’s now a ready reckoner to sort you out.

Russia took a major step toward introducing its own “right to be forgotten” today, as the parliament’s lower house passed the final draft of legislation that would make it possible for individuals to force Internet search engines to delete links to certain kinds of information about them. Once the Federation Council passes this bill, it goes to President Vladimir Putin, who is expected to sign it.

President’s office says WikiLeaks founder did not face “immediate danger”, in response to Assange’s request for asylum.

popcorntBranded a “Netflix for Pirates,” the Popcorn Time app quickly gathered a user base of millions of people over the past year.

Sqor Sports has announced the release of its newest iOS app, Iconify, which gives users the ability to create sports-related images that can be shared with friends on the Sqor Sports platform or social media.

The base Iconify library contains elements for creating customized sports trophies, as well as a few general photo accessory pieces like colorful backgrounds, stars and banners. Additional items are available to purchase in themed packs, or piece-by-piece, from the app’s store, with many of these items moving the focus away from sports trophies and into more general sports-themed image creation.

Reddit considered decentralization
redditalienThe bitcoin blockchain could be used to decentralize media, putting it beyond the control of individual hosts. For example, hitting a website or loading an app would turn you into a peer-to-peer client, a node on the network doing its little part to keep all the other clients talking to each other, rather than being dependent on a central host. Reddit almost did this last year, reports Owen Williams.

There’s a worrying trend towards increased surveillance in Europe, says Amnesty International adviser Tanya O’Carroll.

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Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, has been holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since June 19 2012, but according to Reuters, he’s still making requests for asylum to other countries, with the most recent being France. Unfortunately for Assange, his latest bid for escape from the embassy was declined for various reasons. “France has received the letter from Mr. Assange. An in-depth review shows that in view of the legal and material elements of Mr Assange’s situation, France cannot grant his request,” President Francois Hollande’s office told Reuters in a statement. The statement also noted that while Assange doesn’t present immediate…

redditalienA number of Reddit communities were effectively shut down last night to protest the unexpected departure of staffer Victoria Taylor, an important liaison between Reddit’s employees and its army of volunteer moderators

Reddit Is Revolting
Reddit Is Revolting

The popular site is in turmoil with scores of subreddits effectively shut down to protest the firing of Victoria Taylor.

The way scientific information diffuses through the knowledge economy is changing, and the first evidence from Wikipedia shows how.

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Such a shame. İlhan Sami Çomak in prison for 21 years 42-year-old man, standing trial for an anti-terror case since 1994.

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An Istanbul court has ruled for the continuation of a 21-year-long detainment of a 42-year-old man, who has been standing trial for an anti-terror case since 1994.

Petition launched for journalist Baransu to be released immediately
Today’s Zaman (blog)
“When the Justice and Development Party [AK Party] was against military tutelage, the documents [for which Baransu is under arrest] released by Mehmet Baransu were taken into consideration by a prosecutor’s office and led to the Ergenekon[military ..

People in Fırtına Valley of Black Sea Region gathered and responded to Green Road Project.
International Press Institute (IPI) has welcomed a Turkish Constitutional Court ruling that said a suspended prison sentence given to a journalist violated freedom of expression
Turkish winners matter for debate, loser certain

The really important issue for AKP is to come to a decision about party policy. Do they endorse the Erdoğan style of “making politics”?

President Erdogan's palace. President Erdogan’s palace. Demotix/ Nathan Morley. All rights reserved.Who the winner is of the June 7 elections in Turkey is a matter for debate. Each one of the four major parties involved can point to some partial success. But the loser is certain. Tayyip Erdoğan, the president, and not a political party, is the loser of the elections.

Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals has stated in a key ruling that fidelity among married partners would not be sought and be made the subject of a divorce after a divorce case has been filed
Three Turkish journalists, including daily Hürriyet reporter Nurettin Kurt, were honored with the European Union Investigative Journalism Awards for the first time this year at a ceremony in Istanbul on June 29 for original investigative reporting in 2014 that had significant social impact in Turkey.
Famous protest band Grup Yorum held its 30th anniversary concert in Istanbul after the ban on the concert was reversed by the court, with folk artist Joan Baez in attendance
Four Spanish and one Azerbaijani transsexual prisoners have gone on hunger strike after they were moved to a different cell and separated from their previous Turkish transsexual cellmates, saying the Turkish inmates had been helpful in overcoming the language barrier

The elections have been widely interpreted as a revitalization of parliamentary politics in Turkey. Yet a paralyzed parliament’s inability to tackle key issues may prove the undoing of opposition promises of change.

Grand national assembly of Turkey main chamber.Grand national assembly of Turkey main chamber. Wikicommons/VOA. some rights reserved.In politics, a Hot Potato is a topic so contentious that it causes damage to a candidate whether he shows himself to be for it or not. For a campaign to be successful, so argue strategists, such issues are best to be avoided altogether, or, better yet deflected onto the opposing candidate.

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Literati roundup: A Web project on Grateful Dead… Grateful Dead as Tech Pioneers…

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Bolano Advice

For some certain romantic reasons, a segment of the English-language reading population fell in love with Roberto Bolaño in the first few years of this millennium. One invariably glimpsed Bolaño’s award-winning 1998 novel The Savage Detectives on endtables and nightstands after its translation in 2007, with or without bookmarks. When 2666—the Chilean writer’s dizzyingly enormous work on the darkest of events in 1990’s Northern Mexico—appeared, it did so posthumously, further elevating Bolaño’s literary outlaw mythos. In addition to being a hard-bitten Trotskyist nomad, Bolaño—who died of liver failure in 2003—was said to have been a heroin addict and alcoholic. Neither was the case, writes Hector Tobar in the LA Times, quoting a Mexico City-based journalist on the author: “He had a super boring daily life. It was a life built around his own writing rituals and habits.”

universonline.nl – Jul 2 – “We are entering a new era in publications”, said Koen Becking, chairman of the Executive Board of Tilburg University in October. On behalf of the Dutch universities, he and his colleague Gerard Meijer negotiate with scientific

Dead Last Show Poster

Just about twenty years ago, on July 9, 1995, the Grateful Dead played their last show with Jerry Garcia. Neither the fans, nor the band knew this would be so, but anyone paying attention could have seen it coming.

Call Them Hippies, But the Grateful Dead Were Tech Pioneers

Long stereotyped as hippies stuck in the Summer of Love, the Dead stood at the vanguard of the digital revolution for 50 years.

Winners of the 2015 Locus Awards!

The winners from last night’s Locus Awards Banquet in Seattle have been announced: Read the rest

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Thomas Hardy—architect, poet, and writer (above)—gave us the fierce, stormy romance Far From the Madding Crowd, currently impressing critics in a film adaptation by Thomas Vinterberg. He also gave us Tess of the D’Urbervilles, The Return of the Native, and Jude the Obscure, books whose persistently grim outlook might make them too depressing by far were it not for Hardy’s engrossing prose, unforgettable characterization, and, perhaps most importantly, unshakable sense of place. Hardy set most of his novels in a region he called Wessex, which—much like William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha—is a thinly fictionalized recreation of his rural hometown of Dorchester and its surrounding counties.

Neal Stephenson on the story behind Seveneves
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