Monday, June 1, 2015

Apparently Erdoğan does not take a dump on golden seats in his Palace… #TurkeyElections

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Turkey’s Erdoğan invites opposition to get to bottom of gold toilet seat claims

President invites Kemal Kiliçdaroğlu to inspect lavatories in his palace after secular party leader accused him of spending public money on luxuries

Turkey’s president has invited the country’s main opposition leader to inspect the lavatories in his lavish palace, insisting he would not find any gold-plated toilet seats.

ERDOGANHaving constructed a billion-dollar palace for himself to occupy, Tayyip Erdogan is yet angered by suggestions that he is a lavish spender. He “vowed to resign if the leader of the main opposition can find a single golden toilet seat.”
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli has said President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) were aiming to pressure the opposition parties with a full-page newspaper advertisement
Voters from Mersin suppose CHP and MHP are on the rise while AKP is declining day by day. Voters think HDP should pass the election threshold.
Turkey’s main opposition leader has said he proved that he could recite a Quranic verse when a potential voter put him to an impromptu test
Kurdish problem-oriented Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş challenged Turkey’s president and prime minister to attend a televised live discussion program with him, where they could openly debate
The Turkish currency fell for the eighth consecutive day on June 1, down around 0.8 percent against the U.S. dollar to 2.68
The world’s most unfair election system – how would your parliament fare?

In Turkey, parties need 10% to get into parliament or they lose their seats to bigger rivals. How would this system affect chambers in more established democracies like the UK, Germany and Australia?

A Turkish actor appears in two opposing party ads, as a man who lives on social benefits in the ruling AKP’s election ad, while in a HDP ad, he laughs.
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu announced on June 1 that Turkey will finish the prototype of its first domestically-produced car in August
An independent deputy candidate went missing in a district in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa on May 30, prompting the interrogation of six people in the resulting investigation, according to the governor.
President Erdoğan claims the main opposition CHP, Turkish nationalist MHP, Kurdish problem-focused HDP, Gülenists, the outlawed PKK and even the Armenian diaspora have joined a grand coalition against his plans to impose a presidential system on Turkey.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has slammed a recent New York Times editorial as ‘shameless,’ calling on the U.S. daily to ‘know its place.’
Kurdish problem-focused Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Sırrı Süreyya Önder has said his party represents a historic chance in the upcoming general elections for the country to live together in harmony
Every time Turkey stumbles on its path towards a fully functioning democracy, critical voices rising from Europe talk about suspending the country’s accession talks with the European Union.
Turkey’s Erdogan accuses New York Times of meddling in country’s affairs

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blasts editorial accusing him of a crackdown ahead of the 7 June election, telling the US daily to ‘know your place’

A young politician has set his eyes on becoming Turkey’s first Armenian party leader by “staging a coup” inside Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)
The voting for Turkey’s June 7 general elections has ended in 54 countries with more than 1 million people voting abroad, mainly in European countries.
President Erdoğan has justified the controversial allocation of a luxury car to Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs head, comparing the situation to the allocation of armored vehicles and private plane to the pope.

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As of today, More than 3 thousand reports in the election news mapping project, #SeçimVar

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In just over a year, citizens of Turkey are going to the ballot box for the third time. Following local elections in March 2014 and a presidential ballot last August, a General Election in June will complete the country’s political cycle and give the electorate of roughly 55 million a well-earned break from casting votes….. Continue to read about the project in a Global Voices post

And you are welcome to attend our election night event

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Literati roundup: “Franz Kafka’s Kafkaesque Love Letters…

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Franz Kafka’s Kafkaesque Love Letters

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It’s easy to think of Franz Kafka as a celibate, even asexual, writer. There is the notable lack of eroticism of any recognizable sort in so much of his work. There is the prominent biographical detail—integral to so many interpretations—of his outsized fear of his father, which serves to infantilize him in a way. There is the image, writes Spiked, of “a lonely seer too saintly for this rank, sunken world.” All of this, James Hawes writes in his Excavating Kafka, “is pure spin.”

Hemingway_castro

Ernest Hemingway is Cuba’s most famous American resident. The author lived there for years, and when he left — quite suddenly in 1960, under pressure by U.S. authorities — he left much of the artifacts of his life there intact.

“Where other transgressive figures of the past have mostly been tamed,” wrote Josh Jones in a post here last year, “[Georges] Bataille, I submit, is still quite dangerous.” You can get a sense of that in the documentary featured there, À perte de vue, which introduces the transgressive French intellectual’s life and thought, which from the 1920s to the 1960s produced books like The Solar AnusThe Hatred of Poetry, and The Tears of Eros, all part of a body of work that captivated the likes of Susan Sontag, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida.

 

Hungarian wins international Booker
“Visionary” Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai is announced as the winner of the sixth Man Booker International Prize.
Librarians: privacy’s champions


Libraries have always been places where people gathered for intellectual inquiry, where communities could form around emerging ideologies that challenged the status quo. Read the rest

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Cyberculture agenda: Thanks to partially Snowden, “The NSA is no longer authorized to spy on US citizens

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The US Senate failed to pass legislation extending legal authority of the country’s spy agencies — including the National Security Agency (NSA) — to collect data on American citizens’ communications on Sunday, reports Reuters. Senator Rand Paul blocked an extension of the Patriot Act in a rare Sunday meeting at the Senate.
PATRIOT Act expires — now what?

For the first time since its passage in 2001, Congress has declined to renew section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act, which provided for mass, warrantless surveillance — now what happens? Read the rest

Parts of Patriot Act Expire Tonight After Senate Fails to Pass Reform

US senators failed to pass a bill tonight that would reform one of the NSA’s most controversial surveillance programs. Without it, sections of the Patriot Act expire at midnight.

What Deep Web’s Director Learned Investigating Silk Road
What Deep Web’s Director Learned Investigating Silk Road

If you to turn on Epix this weekend and think it’s the news, you won’t be alone. The network’s new doc about Ross Ulbricht is incredibly timely.

The 38 New Emojis Proposed For 2016
At this moment, if I wanted to use emojis to express to a friend “Hey, call me, an owl just stole my scooter – face palm!” I wouldn’t be able to.

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Istanbul news roundup: “Istanbul shows ferries have a future

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Istanbul shows ferries have a future

Critics say they are expensive, slow and can only reach selected parts of a city but – with New York and London planning expansions – ferry traffic is on the rise

The Istanbul rush hour commute is like no other. Passengers feast on toasted sandwiches, tea and freshly brewed coffee before taking one of a choice of seats. Some even get to light up a cigarette out the back.

Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley have been appointed curators of the third Istanbul Design Biennial, to be held from Oct. 22 to Dec. 4, 2016, by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV).

« Mon Istanbul »

… galerie de Nancy-Thermal accueille, jusqu’au 30 mai, une exposition photographique intitulée « Mon Istanbul ». Elle est le reflet d’un travail collectif d’une centaine de photographes qui ont pris des clichés quotidiens d’Istanbul, seulement guidés par […
Istanbul has been named the most consistently improved business city over the last five years, according to research conducted by real estate consultancy company Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL)

5 Street Foods You Need To Try In Istanbul

One of the most enjoyable ways of tasting the best Istanbul has to offer is to work your way around the city snacking on the incredible street food, sold

Istanbul Design Biennial 2016

Architectural historians Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley have been appointed to curate the third Istanbul Design Biennial, which will be held from

The Art Festival Parade Alights in Istanbul

This past weekend saw the trade winds of the trendy blow nomadic influencers toIstanbul for the annual IST. Festival, to celebrate the theme of …

İstanbul ‘most improved’ city in global survey

Istanbul has improved the most of any city since 2010 regarding various indices including economic growth and performance, quality of life and cost

With style and class – Istanbul’s best place to stay

Four Seasons Istanbul at the Bosphorus: With style and class – Istanbul’s best place to stay – See 919 traveller reviews, 457 candid photos, and great

Swedish woman shot dead in Istanbul

“We can confirm that a Swedish woman in her 30s has died in Istanbul and that this happened during the night,” says Lilian Willix Schwirtz at the

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Bilgi EU Center (@BILGI_European) Working Paper: CHARLIE HEBDO: A BRIEF HISTORY

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