“International coalition slams Cumhuriyet arrests, media closures”

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International coalition slams Cumhuriyet arrests, media closures

freemedia.at – Silvia Morales – Nov 2

A coalition of 14 leading international press freedom and freedom of expression organisations today condemned as an “extraordinary attack on press freedom” the jailing of top journalists with Turkey’s Cumhuriyet newspaper and the

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Can Turkey’s Democracy Survive President Erdogan?

nytimes.com – The Editorial Board – Nov 1, 6:08 PM

What is unnerving in President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s march to authoritarianism is how dismally familiar it is: the coup that becomes a pretext for a massive roundup of real and imagined enemies; the claims to be the one man who can withstand the

Hej Carl Bildt, are you asleep? Should Europe still stand by Erdoğan?

opendemocracy.net – Latif Tas – Nov 2

Dedicated to Aydın Engin, or “uncle Aydın”, and all jailed writers and journalists in Turkey. The arrest of Aydin Engin, Turkish journalist, playwright, writer, politician, in the raid of 12 leading staff of Cumhuriyet

 

Turkish journalists face abuse and threats online as trolls step up attacks

theguardian.com – Maeve Shearlaw – Nov 1

Two thousand cases of online harassment, smear campaigns and hacking by pro-government ‘lynch mobs’ logged in 2016

 

Internet disruption causes chaos in southeast Turkey

al-monitor.com – Oct 31, 1:58 AM

Author: Mahmut Bozarslan October 31, 2016 DIYARBAKIR, Turkey — I was in a clothing shop on the main street of Yenisehir district when a customer came in. After he finished shopping, he went to the cashier and wanted to pay with his credit

 

A cult of personality dashes Turkey’s democratic dreams

washingtonpost.com – Oct 31

LITTLE MORE than a decade ago, Turkey appeared to be an emerging democracy with vibrant civil society and somewhat independent media. No longer. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has abandoned democracy and is building a strongman cult of personality

EU lawmakers criticize Turkey over press freedom

The European Parliament has called on Ankara to release all journalists in prison without proof of alleged involvement in the July 15 failed coup attempt.

Debate: Human Rights Watch accuses Turkey of torture

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According to a Human Rights report published on Tuesday prisoners were tortured and abused after the failed coup in July. The state of emergency declared by the government after the coup is still in force today. Commentators observe a climate of fear in Turkey and criticise the EU’s failure to exert pressure on the government.

Turkish main opposition deputy CHP leader shot wounded

Bülent Tezcan, the deputy chairman of Turkey’s main opposition CHP, has been wounded, daily Hürriyet reported on its website

MEDIA OWNERSHIP MONITOR PROJECT: ‘Who Owns the Media in Turkey?’

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The results of the three-month joint project “Media Ownership Monitor (MOM) Turkey” run by IPS Communication Foundation/ bianet and Reporter ohne Grenzen, have been were presented.

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Anthropology roundup: A manifesto: “Foundations of an Anarchist Archaeology”

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Foundations of an Anarchist Archaeology: A Community Manifesto

 Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology

This entry is part 18 of 18 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series.

By The Black Trowel Collective

An anarchist archaeology embraces considerations of social inequity as a critique of authoritarian forms of power and as a rubric for enabling egalitarian and equitable relationships.

 

Political Temporalities: 2016 U.S. Election

Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog by Angelique Haugerud

U.S. presidential elections are extraordinary moments—ruptures in everyday time, full of transformative promise. Maybe. More than two decades ago, in her seminal essay on time, Nancy D. Munn wrote: “the topic of time frequently fragments into all the other dimensions and topics anthropologists deal with in the social world.” So, in the cacophonous 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, how do we perceive time and why might that matter?

Theory and Praxis in Decolonizing the National Historic Preservation Act: AAA 2016 Workshop Highlight

American Anthropological Association

We asked Annual Meeting workshop organizers to give our blog readers a sneak peek at the events they have planned for AAA 2016. This post was submitted by Kurt Dongoske, Director of  the Zuni Heritage and Historic Preservation Office/Principal Investigator for Zuni Cultural Resource Enterprise. 

Tweet-and-Storify about Language and Social Justice at AAA 2016

Society for Linguistic Anthropology

Overview
The Society for Linguistic Anthropology Committee on Language & Social Justice (LSJ) will be organizing social media artifacts (tweets, Instagram posts, etc.) into a curated Storify (https://storify.com/) resulting from several events (panels, roundtables, meetings) during the AAA 2016 conference in Minneapolis[1].

Here’s why you should care about the scrapping of A-level anthropology
The Conversation UK
At first the voices were predictable. With archaeology, art history and anthropology A-levels set to be scrapped, TV presenter Tony Robinson condemned this “barbaric act”. The Council for British Archaeology warned of a national shortage of archaeologists

Besteman to Present Paper at American AnthropologicalAssociation Meeting
Colby College
Bartlett Professor of Anthropology Catherine Besteman will present a paper titled “Refugee Matters and the AnthropologicalGaze” at the 115th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Besteman’s paper will be part of session called .

Decolonizing archaeological practice in Northeast India: Towards a community-based archaeology at Chungliyimti, Nagaland

Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology

This entry is part 17 of 18 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series.

By Tiatoshi Jamir

I was born on a land declared an ‘Excluded Area’: a previously colonized region. A geographic landmass formerly carved out of Assam: lodged between Myanmar to its east, Manipur to its south, bounded by the plains of Assam to the west and snow clad mountains of the sub-Himalayan region of Arunachal Pradesh to the north. Now tagged for tourism purposes as ‘The Land of Festivals,’ it is the very same homeland where Naga ancestors were once branded ‘wild’, ‘savage’, ‘primitive’ ‘uncivilized’ ‘barbaric’ and ‘head hunters’ by the colonial powers. This colonial stereotype of the Nagas continues and is reiterated in the neighboring states and Mainland India. A case in point is Manpreet Singh’s article The Soul Hunters of Central Asia (2006) published in Christianity Today that describes the Naga homeland as “once notorious worldwide for its savagery”,  now “the most Baptist state in the world.”

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Solidarity with Cumhuriyet continues… #TeslimOlmayız

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Images From Solidarity Demonstration for Cumhuriyet daily

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Readers of Cumhuriyet daily, its journalists and many others have advocated the “right to information” in a demonstration.

US, Europe criticize Turkey over Cumhuriyet raids, detentions

The detention of executives and columnists from the critical daily Cumhuriyet newspaper has been criticized by officials from the United States and Europe, with the U.S. State Department saying it supports Turkey’s efforts to locate those responsible for the attempted coup, but was deeply concerned by the continuing pressure on the news media.

Updating…: Operation on Cumhuriyet Daily, 16 Taken into Custody

Bianet :: English

Police has raided the houses of Cumhuriyet Daily Ediyor-in-Chief Murat Sabuncu, President of the Execution Board Akın Atalay and Cumuhuriyet Foundation Executive Board member and columnist Güray Öz. Sabuncu and Öz have been taken into custody.

Support Letter From Aslı Erdoğan, Necmiye Alpay to Cumhuriyet daily

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Aslı Erdoğan and Necmiye Alpay both arrested in the investigation into Özgür Gündem daily, have sent Cumhuriyet daily a letter of support.

The state of arrested journalists and writers in Turkey

On a live TV show on Oct. 22, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said his government was preparing for a new decree in the force of law (KHK) in order to return those dismissed from their public jobs “by mistake” in the wake of the probes after the military coup attempt in Turkey on July 15.

BİA MEDIA MONITORING REPORT 2016 JULY-AUGUST-SEPTEMBER: 107 Journalists in Prison, 2,500 Others Left Unemployed Due To Closures

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Of 107 arrested journalists, 71 are from Gülen Community, 29 others from Kurdish Media. 155 media organs have been closed down, 775 press cards and 49 passports revoked.

Turkish rescue association head on trial for ‘insulting president’ released on probation

Nasuh Mahruki, the head of the non-profit Search and Rescue Association (AKUT), has been released on probation, shortly after being referred to court with an arrest demand on Oct. 24 for allegedly “insulting” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

AKP signals presidential system with single parliament

Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is working on a system that will impose a single parliament, a presidential system and a two-stage election system on the country, the party’s constitution commission head, Mustafa Şentop, has said.

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