I have seen this photo several times. Hard to believe it is from Turkey.
But a brief story of the photo here in English. Photographer Bill Ray explains how he did it…
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A Turkish food engineer and human rights activist was sentenced yesterday to 15 months in jail after publishing the results of a study he and other scientists had done that linked toxic pollution to a high incidence of cancer in western Turkey.
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We felt the earthquake when we were having lunch in the campus restaurant. I guess this was the biggest one I felt since the notorious 17 August 1999 quake. However, this was a quiet moderate one compared to that. But it showed that Istanbul is not ready for a major quake. All public funds since 1999 have been spent on other issues but definitely not for earthquake preparation… A former minister, Mehmet Şİmşek, once said they spend the money on building more highways…
It was so bad that all major GPS companies failed in communications and it was to share other tools in case of emergencies.
İstanbul Technical University: Situation ‘Critical’ After Earthquake on Locked Fault
Bianet :: English
Between 1939 and 1999 a series of devastating M7+ strike-slip earthquakes propagated westward along the North Anatolian Fault Zone, beginning with the 1939 M7.8 Erzincan earthquake on the eastern end of the North Anatolian Fault system. The 1999 M7.6 Izmit earthquake, located on the westward end of the fault, struck one of Turkey’s most densely populated and industrialized urban areas killing, more than 17,000 people.
5.8 magnitude earthquake shakes Istanbul, 8 slightly injured
İstanbul Earthquake: First Statements by Mayor, President
5.8-magnitude earthquake jolts Turkish metropolis Istanbul
The Question After the Istanbul Earthquake: Earthquake Emergency Assembly Areas
Istanbul earthquake: Magnitude 5.8 quake hits Turkey An earthquake measuring 5.8 magnitude shook Istanbul on Thursday, causing panic among residents, the evacuation of schools and public offices,
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In other news:
Istanbul’s Massive New Airport Will Eventually Be Bigger Than Manhattan
Gorgons and organs: the Istanbul Biennial 2019 – in pictures
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Another English case:
I SPEECH KÜRSÜ??? pic.twitter.com/6sQkY5tDN8
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Turkey Now the Only G20 Country Not Ratifying Paris Agreement
Will you pay for me too?’: Putin buys an ice cream for Erdoğan – video
ISTANBUL—Under the cover of night, Turkish police officers pushed Ahmed onto a large bus parked in central Istanbul. In the darkness, the Syrian man from Damascus could discern dozens of other handcuffed refugees being crammed into the
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Hasankeyf is thought to be one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements on Earth, dating as far back as 12,000 years and containing thousands of caves, churches and tombs. more here
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I was invited to a wedding and since I had time I said why not. The whole weekend was intense, I met some really good people who showed me around. This was, in fact, the third time I was in Diyarbakır -thank Swarm I know the exact dates in 2011 and 2015) but this was the first I had a better grasp of the city. This trip was also sad in some respects. The historical Sur, old town, is completely destroyed. I had wondered in there last time in 2015 but after the fierce fightings in 2016, the whole district was destroyed. Parts of the district is still closed to the public and a few quietly ugly supposedly buildings are built but most parts are still barren.
I have also seen the street where Gaffar Okan, a beloved police chief- which is a rare thing in Kurdish cities, was assassinated. The killers- a Kurdish Islamist gang- are allegedly connected to the Turkish deep state. We may never know the truth…
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….and I believe I may be the only one who has not shared photos from the Biennial in his/her Instagram account…
Japanese arrowroot blankets the Alabama countryside, strangling the trees and fields. An endless tyre dump stretches to the horizon. Plastic waste accumulates in the oceans, forming a seventh continent. In fact, the agglomeration of plastic waste floating about in the Pacific is sometimes referred to as the Seventh Continent. An indictment of the way we live, the ever-growing garbage patch is testament to our wastefulness, heedlessness and greed. The Seventh Continent also provides the title for curator Nicolas Bourriaud’s exhibition for the 16th Istanbul Biennial. The biennial is itself another kind of accumulation, and one that is itself not without its own material and ecological cost, its own political ramifications.
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Turkey’s ruling elites are at the height of a banal nationalism wave. In this staged photo, the minister along with a group of journalists and columnists, are looking at a prototype of a car that will be a national product. We do not see the “yerli oto” but a group collaborating media personnel like in some previous cases “see” the model. Turkey effectively prevented the development of digital economies by censorship and heavy taxation. Many creative people already left the country. Now the minister Varank, once allegedly headmaster of Aktrolls, is now making rounds of technology shows. All shallow. Not any real infrastructural progress…
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