There Lira in free fall: 1 USD: 3.10 TL

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Turkish Lira hits record low against dollar on political worries, Fed’s rate hike signals

The Turkish Lira hit a record low against the dollar on Oct. 13 over fears that political uncertainty could be triggered by a fresh government move to push through legislation introducing an executive presidential system

BP refutes claims about exiting Turkish market

BP has never had a plan to exit the Turkish market, a top company official has said on the sidelines of the World Energy Congress in Istanbul, refuting earlier reports

CHP head defends comments on post-coup attempt victims amid gov’t criticism

Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has defended his criticism of injustices committed during the Turkish government’s sweeping post-coup attempt measures

‘Millions Watched the Illegal Closure of Our Channel Live on Air’

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“We do not accept the state’s practices against our channel; the only “crime” we have committed is reporting and producing news in accordance with the universal principles of journalism and broadcasting”.

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An Open Democracy article on “Turkey’s largest environmental legal case” Artvin- Cerattepe

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Turkey’s largest environmental legal case

open Democracy News Analysis – by Defne Gonenc

In addition to the incompetence of the Turkish legal system, this case illustrates how twenty first century power politics is being played out in the arena of environmental projects.

Attacks against protesters with police tear gas,Artvin Cerattepe and Genya mine, February 2016.EJAtlas. All rights reserved.Environmental rights are now widely recognized by many constitutions throughout the world. The 1982 constitution of Turkey also recognizes a right to health and a balanced environment (article 56). Nevertheless, the application of this right on the ground has not been free of contestation, particularly when big projects with opportunities for vast profit are at stake. In fact, the application of environmental rights is becoming one of the most incendiary battlegrounds of the twenty first century, where the rules of capitalism are most urgently on course to be modified.

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Journalism agenda: New PEW research- Younger adults prefer to get their news in text, not video,

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Younger adults prefer to get their news in text, not video, according to new data from Pew Research

Nieman Journalism Lab by Ricardo Bilton

Digital publishers may be pouring time and energy into cranking up their video operations, but for a lot of their potential viewers, text is still the way to go.

New data from Pew Research finds that, when it comes to the news, younger adults still prefer words over moving images. While 46 percent of Americans overall say they prefer to watch the news over reading it, that number is far lower for Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 — only 38 percent of that group named video as their preferred news consumption format. In contrast, 42 percent said that they actually prefer text (which they prefer to read online, of course). Just 19 percent of young adults named listening as their preference. (“Smelling the news” was not an option.)

Meet the women breaking Syria’s journalism taboo

 open Democracy News Analysis – by Thomson Reuters Foundation

Women in Syria face many barriers on a daily basis. Despite this, women citizen journalists are “risking their lives” for the news.

“They all told me I was going to be a spinster because I’m travelling to Damascus to study journalism,” says journalist and activist Zaina Erhaim.

An Italian media group’s approach to making social video work for local news

Journalism.co.uk

Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso has been using automation to make video production accessible to everyone in the newsroom

ProPublica’s Data Store, which has pulled in $200K, is now selling datasets for other news orgs

 Nieman Journalism Lab by Ricardo Bilton

When Sarah Ryley, an investigative reporter at the New York Daily News, filed a records request with the city’s police department early last year, she didn’t expect to hear back for a while, nor did she expect the eventual data to be very useful. Ryley, working with ProPublica, was investigating how often the city evicted residents over alleged violations of its nuisance abatement law, which gave it the power to shut down businesses and residences that were being used for illegal purposes.

‘It’s a lot about who you know, and they rarely know anyone’: Helping refugee journalists restart work

 Journalism.co.uk

Initiatives that offer mentoring and training to exiled journalists are starting up across Europe

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Cyberculture agenda: Major Tech Companies’ Stand on Encryption…

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Where Do Major Tech Companies Stand on Encryption?

EFF.org Updates by Amul Kalia

Comparing the Public Encryption Policies from 21 of the Biggest Tech Companies

There’s a major battle brewing over encryption right now.

Law enforcement agencies are trying to demand “backdoors” to our sensitive data and communications, while civil liberties groups are fighting back through a new campaign called SaveCrypto. And President Obama seems to be trying to find a middle ground, eschewing legal mandates but continuing to informally pressure companies to provide unencrypted access to data.

This is an interactive timeline of every historical event on Wikipedia… and it’s beautiful

The Next Web by Amanda Connolly

If you’re the type of person who gets lost in Wikipedia pages when you’re browsing, Histography is for you. The interactive timeline lets you sift through every single historical event that’s been documented on Wikipedia. That’s pretty much everything from the big bang right up until today. Each dot on the timeline represents an event and it’s updated daily.

5 major cyber hacks and the tools that might stop them next time

The Next Web by Lauren Gilmore

2015 might be remembered as the year of the hacker. Just by using the Internet, you’re subject to all manner of ways your private information is put at risk – tracking, malware, identity theft and data breaches…

Edward Snowden May Be the Most Powerful Person on Twitter

Wired Top Stories by Julia Greenberg

In a world in which public figures and celebrity endorsements can give a weighty nudge, Snowden seems to be quickly entering the top echelon.

10 Instagram-friendly cities that aren’t Paris or NYC

Mashable! by Chloe Bryan

If you have an Instagram account, you’ve probably seen your fair share of Eiffel Tower photos. But did you know there are cities all over the world — albeit less-famous ones — that are just as ‘gram-able?

Movie Piracy Veteran Recalls 20 Years in The Scene

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Topsites are top-secret, high-speed servers used by piracy release groups and their affiliates for the storage and distribution of unauthorized copyrighted content. Together, these silicon-powered caches and their carbon-based operators form an entity known as The Scene.

Members of this tight-knit but sprawling network are known for their vigilance, and for good reason too. As the source of tens – maybe hundreds – of thousands of ‘pirate’ releases every year, law enforcement has a keen interest in bringing them down. But for many the rewards of Scene life are well worth the risks. Twenty years ago, SaInT began taking lots of them.

Google’s $30m race to the moon is ready for lift-off

The Next Web by Ben Woods

Israeli non-profit space exploration company SpaceIL has announced that it’s become the first company to successfully deliver a launch contract in pursuit of Google’s $30 million lunar XPRIZE payout.

Top European Court Rules That NSA Spying Makes U.S. Unsafe For Data

The Intercept by Jenna McLaughlin

The European Union no longer considers the United States a “safe harbor” for data because the National Security Agency surveillance exposed by whistleblower Edward Snowden “enables interference, by United States public authorities, with the fundamental rights of persons.”

NZ government leaks on TPP: copyright terms will go to life plus 70 years

Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow

An official New Zealand government bulletin on yesterday’s conclusion of the still-secret Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement negotiations accidentally confirmed something we all believed was in there all along: an extension of copyright terms to match the USA’s bizarre, evidence-free, century-plus terms.(more…)

 

Google’s new Meter app for Android turns your wallpaper into a live widget

The Next Web by Nate Swanner

Google is tinkering again, this time bringing a live wallpaper that may actually be useful. Meter, a project from Google’s Creative Lab, will tell you when you might want to charge your device or use cellular instead of Wi-Fi. Conceptually, the wallpaper also acts as a widget, which displays information like battery level, app usage and notifications..

The Downside Of Data

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The NSA and EFF Agree on One Thing: How the NSA’s Internet Spying Works

EFF.org Updates by Mark Rumold

Much has changed in the nearly ten years since we launched our first lawsuit challenging the NSA’s illegal surveillance of millions of Americans’ Internet communications. Over time, the defendants in the cases have changed; the legal “authority” the government has invoked to justify the program has changed; and the public’s knowledge and understanding of the programs has increased remarkably.

‘Steve Jobs’ review: A great movie seen through Sorkin’s reality distortion field

Mashable! by Josh Dickey

 

Reddit’s Uneasy Road to Social Media Maturity

 All Facebook by Kimberlee Morrison

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Demirtaş in CNN: “Turkish government complicit in Ankara blast

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Turkish government complicit in Ankara blast, Demirtaş tells CNN

Turkish government is complicit in the Ankara blast for turning a blind eye to ISIL and failing to put appropriate security in place, HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş told CNN International

Stories of Those Who Lost Their Lives in Ankara

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We share the stories that we could find of the ones to call for peace in Ankara.

Ankara Bombing Sets Turkey Into Uncharted Waters

 The Intercept by Murtaza Hussain

The brazen act of terrorism that saw 128 people killed at a political rally in Ankara this weekend traces back at least somewhat to government missteps in feeding Syrian violence — violence that appears to have now migrated home.

The attack by two suicide bombers, whose victims had gathered in support of the opposition party HDP, or Peoples’ Democratic Party, has sent Turkey into uncharted territory. Unlike two bombings earlier this summer, which hit restive parts of the country, this one occurred near the heart of the capital city of Ankara. It was also the single deadliest terrorist incident in Turkish history.

Video: Police pepper-gassing survivors right after the explosion. 

 

Crime scene investigation under scrutiny as passers-by find body remains at Ankara blast site

Quality of Turkey’s CSI services comes under scrutiny as passers-by have discovered body remains at three different locations at the Ankara blast site

The Police Attack Ferry-Goers in İstanbul Protesting Ankara Bombing

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The police have attacked people who wanted to board Kadıköy-Eminönü ferry in order to protest Ankara bombing in Beyazıt district of İstanbul.

Turkey’s opposition to move for recognition of Ankara terror victims as ‘martyrs’

Turkey’s Republican People’s Party (CHP) plans to take a parliamentary move for recognition of the victims in the Oct. 10 double suicide bombings in Ankara that killed at least 97 people as “martyrs” in a bid to provide support for their families left behind.

Turkey has list of suicide bombing suspects: PM

Turkey has a list of suspects who may carry out suicide bombings but cannot take legal action unless suspects commit a suicide attack, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has said, in the wake of a deadly bombing attack in Ankara, believed by to be a suicide bombing

ZAFER YILMAZ PENNED: We Will Survive This Hell without You

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We couldn’t banish your impertinently spilling evilness after this kind of massacre. It became a worry to us but you couldn’t either intimidate or destroy us and you cannot. You learn to live with it!

EU ambassadors pay respects to Ankara victims

Ambassadors from European Union countries paid their respects to the 97 victims of the twin blasts at a peace rally in Ankara

MAIN FOCUS: Attack in Ankara: The search for the culprits | 13/10/2015

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Turkish investigators are working on the assumption that the Ankara attack was carried out by two suicide bombers belonging to the terrorist Islamic State organisation, Turkey’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said on Monday. No one should be surprised at the presence of jihadists in Turkey, some commentators write. Others fear more acts of violence before the election on the basis that they could help the ruling AKP to win.

How dangerous is Turkey’s unrest?

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How dangerous is Turkey’s unrest?

Turkey terror attack: mourning after scores killed in Ankara blasts

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Constanze Letsch, Nadia Khomami and agencies

• More than 90 killed by blasts in Turkish capital
• Two explosions target pro-Kurdish peace rally near main train station
• Suicide bombers mount attack three weeks before elections
• PM declares three days of national mourning

Newly-married victims of Ankara blast laid to rest

Newly-married couple Yılmaz Elmascan and Gülhan Karlı Elmascan died together along with their friends from the United Trade Union of Transportation Workers in Ankara.

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