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Tuesday, May 23, 2017

“Attack is the best form of defense: “Turkey Sends Diplomatic Note to US Following Assault of Presidential Bodyguards…

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Turkey Sends Diplomatic Note to US Following Assault of Presidential Bodyguards

 Bianet :: English
In the wake of Presidential bodyguards assaulting protesters in the US, Turkey has sent diplomatic note to the US on the grounds that the police stopping the bodyguards “caused a security weakness”

Turkey Chides U.S. Envoy Over Handling of Brawl at Washington Protest

NYT > Turkey by By PATRICK KINGSLEY
After a fracas between Turkish bodyguards and protesters in Washington last week, tit-for-tat diplomatic complaints were made about who had mistreated whom.
N.B.A. Player Enes Kanter Blames Erdogan for Detention in Romania
NYT > Turkey by By VICTOR MATHER
Kanter, a center for the Oklahoma City Thunder, was stuck at a Bucharest airport for hours because Turkey had canceled his travel documents.
Turkey complains about ‘aggressive’ US police after Erdoğan protest brawl
World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Kareem Shaheen in Istanbul and Julian Borger in Washington

Ankara asks US to ‘conduct a full investigation’ after Erdoğan’s bodyguards were shown beating demonstrators outside the Turkish embassy in Washington

Turkey has summoned the American ambassador to complain about the behaviour of US security personnel during a US visit by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan that turned violent when Erdoğan’s diplomatic escort beat up protesters outside the Turkish diplomatic mission in Washington.

The violence of Erdoğan’s bodyguards in Washington DC is Turkey’s new normal | Ahmet A Sabancı
World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Ahmet A Sabancı

The violent scenes in the US capital were typical of Turkey, where anyone who criticizes the government is labeled a terrorist and treated with brutality

On 17 May, a slice of Erdoğan’s Turkey found its way to Washington DC. That day, a group of Kurdish Americans gathered outside the Turkish ambassador’s residence to protest against the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. There, they were beaten, threatened and attacked by the Turkish leader’s bodyguards. A total of 11 people were injured. Instead of the attackers, two protesters were arrested.

Turkey accuses US of ‘aggressive actions’ over brawl
 BBC News | Europe | World Edition
Turkey summons the US ambassador over “security lapses” after clashes erupted in Washington.

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Amnesty starts a campaign on Professional annihilation’ while “Turkey opens trial of suspected military coup plotters…

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amnesty.org – May 22, 7:32 AM

The dismissal of more than 100,000 Turkish public sector workers is arbitrary and has had a catastrophic impact on their lives and livelihoods, a new report published by Amnesty International reveals. No end in sight: Purged public sector workers

Turkey opens trial of suspected military coup plotters
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Trial of 221 main suspects of July 15 coup bid begins amid heavy security and calls for death penalty.
Amnesty slams state of emergency dismissals in Turkey
Amnesty International on May 22 accused the Turkish government of implementing “arbitrary dismissals” of public sector workers since the July 15, 2016 coup attempt, widely believed to have been masterminded by the followers of U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen.

Failed coup attempt generals appear before court for first time

A trial begins into the prime suspects in last year’s failed coup, with prosecutors demanding up to 2,988 life sentences for top generals and others
Two Turkish teachers on 75-day hunger strike detained by police
 World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Kareem Shaheen in Ankara

Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça have been on strike after losing their jobs in purge that followed coup attempt

Two Turkish teachers who are on their 75th day of a hunger strike have been detained by police in Ankara.

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  1. EFD Rights Watch: 13-year-old Gezi protester in trial today! #GeziÇocuğu
  2. As citizens protests government level corruption, police violence increases in Ankara, İstanbul, İzmir demonstrations…
  3. Participatory democracy against election frauds in Ankara and elsewheres… #MansurSavasıyor
  4. Turkish government keen on attacking social media, Still defending Twitter ban…
  5. Erdoğan denies Taksim for Labor Day, desires more polarization before the Presidential Elections

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Monday, May 23, 2016

In UN’s show-off humanitarian summit in Istanbul, Rights Organizations Not Invited…

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Rights Organizations Not Invited to World Humanitarian Summit
 Bianet :: English
Leading human rights organizations in Turkey such as TİHV, İHD and HYD have not been invited to the World Humanitarian Summit organized by UN. The organizations criticize the summit being held in Turkey where human rights violations are common.
UN receives criticism in humanitarian summit in Istanbul
The first-ever World Humanitarian Summit begins in Istanbul amid criticisms of the United Nations’ failures to resolve global problems
UN’s Ban Ki-moon urges ‘fixing’ of humanitarian funding gap
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called on world leaders to fix the gap in humanitarian funding and share the burden of helping people in need across the globe
World Humanitarian Summit Begins
 Bianet :: English
World Humanitarian Summit organized by United Nations has started today in İstanbul.
UN experts: Human rights protection must gain new momentum at Istanbul summit
Humanitarian action that places human rights at its center is key to ensuring protection for all victims, a group of rights specialists from the largest body of independent experts in the United Nations Human Rights system has said
World’s first humanitarian summit kicks off in Istanbul
The two-day World Humanitarian Summit, the first of its kind, officially kicked off on May 23 in Istanbul

Istanbul summit seeks to transform aid response, defy critics

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  2. Eurosphere agenda: High expectations for Paris Climate Conference while French police fire teargas to disperse climate protest #ClimateMarch

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Binali Yıldırım Elected as AKP President

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Incoming Turkish PM says new cabinet to be ready soon
Turkey’s incoming Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım told reporters in Ankara on May 23 the new list of cabinet positions will be prepared quickly and presented to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
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While Erdoğan’s message was read, they have all stood up…

Binali Yıldırım Elected AKP President
Bianet :: English
Binali Yıldırım has become new chair of the AKP receiving all of the valid votes, 1,405.
Turkish president consolidates power as he confirms new PM
World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Patrick Kingsley in Istanbul, and agencies

Erdoğan takes step towards stronger presidential powers with confirmation of his long-time ally as new prime minister

Davutoğlu bids farewell, urges AKP on political corruption
Outgoing Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has urged his Justice and Development Party (AKP) to avoid political corruption during a farewell address at an extraordinary party convention, reiterating that he did not want to resign but was doing so for the party’s unity
Binali Yıldırım officially elected as AKP’s new chairman
Transport and Communications Minister Binali Yıldırım was officially appointed as the chairman of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) on May 22. As the sole candidate in the race, Yıldırım received 1,405 votes at the party’s second ever extraordinary congress
EU, US criticize Turkey for lifting immunities of lawmakers
Both the European Union and the United States have raised serious concerns over the lifting of the parliamentary immunity of dozens of Turkish lawmakers
Erdoğan believes new gov’t will prioritize system change
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has expressed his belief that the new government to be formed under confidant Binali Yıldırım will prioritize a systemic change to impose a presidential system on the country
David Cameron suggests defence minister is lying over Turkey joining EU
World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Anushka Asthana Political editor

Penny Mordaunt’s claim is ‘absolutely wrong’ and UK has veto on countries joining EU, PM tells Robert Peston

David Cameron has in effect accused leave campaigners, including his own defence minister, Penny Mordaunt, of lying about the prospect of Turkey joining the EU.

HDP urges UN’s Ban, summit to take position on alarming situation in Turkey
HDP has called on U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and participants of the first WHS in Istanbul to use the summit to “mobilize international mechanisms to respond to alarming violations of universal human rights within and around the borders of Turkey”

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New photo from Facebook May 23, 2016 at 01:42PM

“Chaos in Sector 13” by John Nugroho. via Reddit. via Facebook Pages http://ift.tt/1heKubC

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Saturday, May 23, 2015

Eurosphere agenda: biggest-ever Eurovision…”Juncker greets Orbán with ‘Hello dictator!”…

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Stage set for biggest-ever Eurovision
 BBC News | Europe | World Edition
Sweden, Russia and Italy are among the favourites to win the 60th annual Eurovision Song Contest, which takes place in Vienna later.
Juncker greets Orbán with ‘Hello dictator!”
 EurActiv.com

European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker teased Hungarian Premier Viktor Orbán over his strongman reputation Friday, jokingly greeting him as “dictator” as he arrived at an EU summit in Riga.

Deficits in the EU that should worry Europeans
 open Democracy News Analysis – by John Weeks

In Greece for the first time the EU authorities demand a government complete a programme that it has neither designed nor has a democratic mandate to implement.

Europe unaware of the hepatitis crisis, say patient organisations
EurActiv.com

The number Europeans living with hepatitis B and C is growing, particularly in Eastern Europe. But access to treatments remains scarce, due to funding problems and a lack of awareness of the problem, say patient groups.

Scandal and silence in Lisboa
open Democracy News Analysis – by Joana Ramiro

I am not an “austerity refugee”, the author tells our partners, Precarious Europe. In fact, my family has had a role to play in the suffering of millions of Portuguese workers.

Analysts: 2019 EU elections will be transformative for European democracy
 EurActiv.com

The Spitzenkandidaten process was never going to be the magic wand, creating a new sense of engagement. But it will in 2019, if we are able to learn the lesson of 2014, said Julian Priestley and Nereo Peñalver Garcia, in an interview with EurActiv.

A Syrian’s view of Europe
 open Democracy News Analysis – by Humam Hamdoun

Humam, fleeing his war-torn country, made the perilous crossing from North Africa to Europe. He now reminds Precarious Europe how big and wonderful Europe can be.

Credit: Yana Zalesskaya. All rights reserved.Credit: Yana Zalesskaya. All rights reserved.I live in Germany now. I have a bicycle, an address and everything, and some wonderful neighbours. We talk in English and they teach me German words. On my first day here, my uncle, a German citizen, said to me, “look after this society, it will look after you in return”. He also said, “there is justice, you will take what it is rightfully yours, despite all the bureaucratic crap”.

The Tories and the police – who is playing who?
 open Democracy News Analysis – by Sam Walton

Sometimes it would be extremely helpful to the police for protesters to break windows at key sites…

Are The IMF and the EU at Loggerheads Over Greece?
 A Fistful Of Euros » A Fistful Of Euros by Edward Hugh

Everything has a cost, or so the story goes, especially time. In the Greek case we now know an additional item on the mounting bill: the country is back in recession. The issue is who – apart of course from the long-suffering Greeks themselves – will pay the extra costs of  the latest imbroglio.

Finland instructs 900,000 reservists
 BBC News | Europe | World Edition
Finland sends letters to nearly a million reservists to remind them of their duties in case of combat, officials tell the BBC.
‘Take us with you, Scotland’ say thousands in North of England
 BBC News | Europe | World Edition
Thousands of people in the North of England take to Twitter to ask Scotland to “take us with you”
Facebook’s Extremes
 Slate Articles by David Auerbach
MAIN FOCUS: The EU presents new migration strategy | 15/05/2015
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The European Union wants to ensure fairer distribution of refugees among EU member states in future. A provisional quota system is to be introduced by the end of May, the EU Commission announced on Wednesday. At last Europe will have an asylum system that doesn’t place the brunt of the burden on just a few states, some commentators write. Others predict that the quotas won’t work for several reasons.

Irish vote on same-sex marriage: Why it is (also) the business of business
EurActiv.com

Many companies have jumped on the bandwagon of supporting marriage equality, but only a select few of them are consistent, plausible, and authentic in their efforts, write Florian Wettstein and Dorothea Baur.

 

Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria embark on gas pipeline project
EurActiv.com

At the Riga summit yesterday (21 May) Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania signed a Joint Declaration backing the idea of building the Eastring gas pipeline, designed to link Central with Southeastern Europe. However the name Eastring doesn’t appear in the document.

EU asks UN for help with migrant crisis
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Foreign policy chief tells Security Council that people intercepted at sea will not “be sent back against their will”.
Cyprus: dusting off the peace process
open Democracy News Analysis – by Costa Carras

The rest of the world expects of Mustafa Akinci and Nikos Anastasiades to resolve a problem now fully 60 years old. How realistic are their chances of success?

Cyprus peace talks resume with confidence-building measures
U.N.-sponsored talks resumed on May 15 after an eight-month stalemate with Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders agreeing to adopt confidence-building measures, in a new drive to settle the island’s decades-old conflict
Greece says it faces bankruptcy in weeks
 AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (IN DEPTH)
No firm agreement yet on critical rescue loans, but euro zone ministers keep tough line on final tranche.

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  3. Eurosphere agenda: Juncker hit by EP…”Commission to reject French budget…
  4. Eurosphere agenda: Rise of Syriza… Rise of Anti-Muslim sentiments…
  5. Eurosphere agenda: Greek elections tomorrow. Syriza is comin’

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