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Wednesday, November 23, 2016

From Turkey with love: Turkish mother who threw slipper at son may be jailed- A Suspect confesses sending bomb-laden package to his father…

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Turkish mother who threw slipper at son may be jailed

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

A 62-year-old woman in Turkey could go to jail for throwing a plastic slipper at her son.

Suspect confesses sending bomb-laden package to his father

A man confessed on Nov. 17 to sending a bomb-laden package to his father’s office, Doğan News Agency has reported.

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Turkey continues to imprison novelist Erdoğan, linguist Alpay…

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Novelist Erdoğan, linguist Alpay arrested over Özgür Gündem probe to remain in prison

An Istanbul court on Nov. 23 ordered the release of imprisoned novelist Aslı Erdoğan and linguist Necmiye Alpay on one charge but ruled for the continuation of their arrest on another charge

Alpay, Erdoğan Released of One of Charges, Further Arrested on the Other

Bianet :: English

Özgür Gündem daily’s Publishing Consultant Board members Alpay and Erdoğan have been released of one of the charges, yet will futher be under arrest on the rest of the charges.

Ahmet Türk, Artıklu Mayor Emin Irmak Detained

Bianet :: English

Mardin’s suspended Co-Mayor Ahmet Türk and Mardin’s Artuklu district’s Co-Mayor Emin Irmak have been taken into custody.

Turkey withdraws bill after protests over child-sexual assault clause

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Kareem Shaheen

Rare concession to popular will comes after critics say freeing offenders from jail if they married their victims would legitimise rape

375 Associations, 9 Media Outlets Closed, 15,726 Public Officials Discharged

Bianet :: English

In the State of Emergency, two more Statutory Decrees have been issued in the Official Gazette. According to the Statutory Decree No. 677, 375 associations and nine media outlets have been closed, 15,726 public officials have been discharged.

Nearly 10,000 dismissed from Turkish security under new decree law

A total of 9,977 Turkish security officials have been dismissed for alleged links to illegal organizations, Turkey’s Official Gazette said Nov. 22

Men Kill at Least 236 Women, Abuse 368 Girls in First 11 Months of 2016

Bianet :: English

Men have killed 236 women, raped 71 women, sexually abused 368 girls between January 1, 2016-November 20, 2016.

Erdogan’s War on Women

open Democracy News Analysis – by Dilar Dirik

Kurdish women in one of the strongest and most radical women’s movements in the world are taking a battering from the Turkish state with impunity – as Europe looks the other way

Ayla Akat Ata, spokeswoman of Free Women’s Congress (KJA), 8th March celebration 2014 when she was still an MP.

‘’We will resist and resist until we win!“ chants Sebahat Tuncel before her mouth is forcibly shut by half a dozen police officers who drag her along the floor and detain her in early November.

Turkey’s Free Press Atrophies Under Erdogan’s Crackdown

NYT > Turkey by By ROD NORDLAND

More than 100 journalists have been jailed since a failed coup in July, and news outlets have been closed or taken over by supporters of the president.

Med Nûçe TV to Resume Broadcasting

Bianet :: English

Paris Court has convicted Eutelsat, which cut off Med Nûçe TV. The channel will resume broadcasting and Eutelsat will pay fine.

‘We became the news’: staff at Turkey’s Cumhuriyet speak out over arrests

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Kareem Shaheen and Safak Timur in Istanbul

Journalists and senior bosses at opposition newspaper say recent detentions are an attempt to silence government critics

It was 7.30 am on a Monday when Ayşe Yıldırım’s phone started ringing. The columnist at Cumhuriyet, Turkey’s last leading newspaper critical of the government, picked up the phone.

‘Gov’t, Gülenists bargained over top judiciary posts,’ former justice says

A former Supreme Council of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) deputy head who was recently released from custody has accused the Gülenists and the government of bargaining over the division of the Turkish judiciary bodies and that they agreed on the number of Gülenist personnel to be appointed to the two institutions

Images of six on-the-run military officers linked to Turkey’s coup attempt released to press

Images of six on-the-run military officers, wanted over claims of being linked to the U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, were released to the press on Nov. 21

Gülenists give their version of the Turkish coup

EurActiv.com by Georgi Gotev

A report published by an organisation close to the movement of Fethullah Gülen, the Turkish preacher accused by the authorities of Ankara of being the mastermind of the failed 15 July coup, questions the official story and highlights many abuses for which the coup appears to be a pretext.

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European Parliament calls for halt to Turkey membership talks…

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As I travel through Belgium, now in Brugge, for a series of lectures, EU Parliament call for halt to Turkey membership talks…

EU leaders call for halt to Turkey membership talks

Euronews – Nov 22

Now Reading: EU leaders call for halt to Turkey membership talks The leaders of the European Parliament’s two largest groups have called for the EU to halt membership talks with Turkey because of its post-coup purges. “Our message to Turkey

European Parliament’s vote on freezing membership talks has no value for Turkey: Erdoğan

The European Parliament’s upcoming voting on freezing membership talks with Ankara has no value for the country, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Nov. 23

EP Calls for Halt of Negotiations with Turkey

Bianet :: English

In its session, the European Parliament has highlighted the backsliding in Turkey’s democracy and human rights and called for “pausing the negotiations”.

Turkey needs a soft exit from the EU

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Monday, November 23, 2015

New photo from Facebook November 23, 2015 at 06:57PM

Neyseki Planet Doğa kardeşimiz hesabını kurtardı. via Facebook Pages http://ift.tt/1heKubC

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New photo from Facebook November 23, 2015 at 04:40PM

Sanki ayıp etmiş. via Reddit. via Facebook Pages http://ift.tt/1heKubC

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It was not first time Turkish fascists were confused: Attacking Dutch Consulate instead of Russian one…

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Confused Turkish nationalists protest Russian air strikes in front of Dutch Consulate

A group of demonstrators in Istanbul protesting Russia’s air strikes in Syria target the Dutch Consulate instead of the Russian one

Often angry Turkish demonstrators mistake us for our close neighbors (Russian Consulate).Like tonight, throwing eggs http://pic.twitter.com/91ltg7yjf6

— Robert Schuddeboom (@rschuddeboom) November 20, 2015

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New photo from Facebook November 23, 2015 at 01:30PM

Fight fire with fire. [Responses to a racist] via Reddit. via Facebook Pages http://ift.tt/1heKubC

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Gramsci would love it. According to a survey, Turks love the hegemony, least likely to criticize the government…

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RIGHTS – Turkey moves down five places in global gender gap rankings

hurriyetdailynews.com

Turkey has moved down five places, ranking 130th among 145 countries, in the “Global Gender Gap Index” released annually by the World Economic Forum, despite a slight increase in its scores. The report measures gender gap by…

How different countries feel about criticising their governments

i100.independent.co.uk

The Pew Research Centre recently conducted a study into attitudes towards freedom of speech around the world. The report looked at 38 different countries’ policies and public support for freedom of expression, religion, free press and censorship of

Gülenists betrayed me, President Erdoğan says

President Erdoğan has said he was “betrayed” by the movement of U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, vowing to press ahead with the fight against what he refers to as the “parallel structure

Curfew in 26 Neighborhoods in Turkey’s Southeast

Bianet :: English

Curfew has been declared in 14 neighborhoods in Hani district, 12 neighborhoods in Lice district of Diyarbakır province.

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New photo from Facebook November 23, 2015 at 11:23AM

Dünyanın en yüksekteki köprüsü Millau, Fransa’da imiş. via Reddit. via Facebook Pages http://ift.tt/1heKubC

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Cyberculture agenda: “Signs Point to Unencrypted Communications Between Terror Suspects…

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Signs Point to Unencrypted Communications Between Terror Suspects

The Intercept by Dan Froomkin

In the wake of the Paris attack, intelligence officials and sympathizers upset by the Edward Snowden leaks and the spread of encrypted communications havetried to blame Snowden for the terrorists’ ability to keep their plans secret from law enforcement.

Yet news emerging from Paris — as well as evidence from a Belgian ISIS raid in January — suggests that the ISIS terror networks involved were communicating in the clear, and that the data on their smartphones was not encrypted.

Onlinecensorship.org Tracks Content Takedowns by Facebook, Twitter, and Other Social Media Sites

EFF.org Updates by Rebecca Jeschke

New Project Will Gather Users’ Stories of Censorship from Around the World

San Francisco – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Visualizing Impact launched Onlinecensorship.org today, a new platform to document the who, what, and why of content takedowns on social media sites. The project, made possible by a 2014 Knight News Challenge award, will address how social media sites moderate user-generated content and how free expression is affected across the globe.

ISIS’ OPSEC Manual Reveals How It Handles Cybersecurity

Wired Top Stories by Kim Zetter

ISIS documents obtained by US researchers detail the security measures recruits should take to avoid surveillance, though not all of them follow the advice.

If the Paris attackers weren’t using crypto, the next ones will, and so should you

Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow

Lots of law enforcement agencies hate crypto, because the technology that helps us protect our communications from criminals and griefers and stalkers and spies also helps criminals keep secrets from cops. With each terrorist attack there’s a fresh round of doom-talk from spooks and cops about the criminals “going dark” — as though the present situation, in which the names and personal information of everyone who talks to everyone else, all the time, where they are then they talk, where they go and who they talk to next, is somehow lesssurveillant than the past, when cops could sometimes use analog tape-recorders to wiretap the very few conversations that took place on landlines. (more…)

Global Voices Community Stands With Moroccan Free Expression Advocates

Global Voices Online by Ellery Roberts Biddle

The Global Voices community demands justice for seven free expression advocates who are facing trial in Morocco due to their advocacy.

The seven advocates have sought to defend human rights, hold authorities accountable to the public, and uphold rule of law in their country. Five have been charged with “threatening the internal security of the State” and two face charges of “receiving foreign funding without notifying the General Secretariat of the government.” We call on the Moroccan government to stand by its commitments to international human rights agreements and drop all charges against these seven individuals.

Generation Z Takes Breaks From Mobile, Social (Report)

All Facebook by David Cohen

People born after 1995, referred to as Generation Z, always have their faces buried in their mobile devices. Or do they?

A recent study by market research firm Wildness found that nine out of 10 members of Generation Z take occasional breaks from their mobile devices, with 54 percent doing so on a daily basis.

Oxford Dictionaries’ Word of the Year: An Emoji

All Facebook by Justin Lafferty

This truly is the year of the emoji.

For the first time, Oxford Dictionaries’ word of the year is … not a word. The organization selected the “face with tears of joy” emoji as the word of the year.

This emoji beat out words (and phrases) such as sharing economy, they, on fleek,ad blocker and lumbersexual.

Oxford explained the logic in a blog post:

Anonymous is crowdsourcing #OpParis, publishes ‘noob guide’ to hacking

The Next Web by Bryan Clark

In the 24 hours since Anonymous declared “total war” on Islamic State, the loose-knit hacktivist collective has claimed its first victims by way of leaked information of suspected extremists. If future follows past, Anonymous will no doubt try to win this war through a series of coordinated attacks on IS websites as well as doxxing its leadership, identifying and removing social media accounts used for recruiting and just generally causing mayhem designed to slow the spread of communication between IS cells. Anonymous is also training the next generation of hacktivists by calling upon the crowd to get involved. Three guides were posted…

Anonymous claims first victims in war with Islamic State

The Next Web by Kirsty Styles

After restating its intention to wage war on Islamic State following the attacks in Paris, online vigilante group Anonymous has begun leaking more details of communication channels it says are linked to the network, according to the Independent. It’s not clear what the newspaper’s source is for this latest update, but the reason for keeping it to themselves is the suggestion that it contains the physical addresses of some of the accused. An Anonymous ‘RedCult’ branch looks to have taken the lead on posting takedown lists online, with around 1,000 Facebook and Twitter accounts, along with email and IP addresses, posted on Pastebin back in February.…

Anonymous Threatens ISIS with Cyberwar, But Could it be Interfering with Actual Intelligence Gathering?

Social Media Today by Aaron Miles

In response to the Paris attacks, hacker collective Anonymous has promised a “cyberwar” against the terrorist group ISIS, promising to expose and force the suspension of sympathetic Twitter accounts and bring down ISIS websites and IT capabilities. The problem being that these efforts will almost certainly be counterproductive to actually beating ISIS.

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