The deputy Barış Atay attacked after Interior Minister targets him #BarisAtayYalnızDeğildir

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Deputy Barış Atay attacked after Interior Minister’s comments targeting him

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Turkish Workers Party (TİP) deputy Barış Atay was attacked in Istanbul’s Kadıköy district early on Aug. 31 by unidentified assailants following Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu’s comments targeting him.

After he was discharged from Haydarpaşa Numune Hospital, Atay told reporters that he had not been seriously injured and would hold a press meeting regarding the issue on Sept. 1.

TİP also announced that Atay was in good health. “Our deputy chair Barış Atay who was earlier in the day targeted by Süleyman Soylu, was attacked by a group of ‘unidentified’ people this night. Our colleague Barış is in good health. We thank for wishes of solidarity,” TİP wrote on Twitter.

Turkish politician assaulted after interior minister ‘targets’ him – party statement | Ahval,

Workers’ Party MP Barış Atay attacked

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Workers’ Party of Turkey (TİP) MP Barış Atay has been attacked by unidentified persons in İstanbul. Making a statement after he left hospital, he has said, “I am good now, there is nothing serious. We will hold a press statement on Tuesday.

Minister Soylu says deputy Atay ‘would be a perfect rapist’ upon criticism on not arresting rapist soldier

 

Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has said that Turkish Workers Party (TİP) deputy Barış Atay would be “a perfect rapist” after the lawmaker criticized him over the fact that a specialized sergeant was not arrested over sexual assault even though the existence of plenty of evidence.

Specialized sergeant Musa Orhan remained behind bars for only one week despite raping İpek Er, a Kurdish woman who died on Aug. 18 a month after committing suicide because of Orhan’s sexual assault.

The minister also targeted lawyers:

LAWYERS’ DEATH FAST: Minister of Interior calls Ebru Timtik a ‘terrorist,’ condems bar for commemorating her

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Ministers of Interior and Justice have targeted the İstanbul Bar for commemorating lawyer Ebru Timtik, who died on a death fast demanding a fair trial.

Her colleagues carry Ebru Timtik’s coffin…

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Three fictional accounts Turkish Twittersphere is deceived by and disinformation circulates…

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Can Okar reported that three Twitter accounts that had huge followings are actually fictional. They pretend to have the expertise and they claim to have formal credentials but it all seems wrong:

So we have 3 (at least) accounts spreading misinformation.@YorgisAtakis (formerly @drdavidsharon)@drsinanerdil / @drsinanerdileng@p_von_eulenburg

— ne mutlu Yunanım diyene (@inebahti) August 30, 2020

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So we have 3 (at least) accounts spreading misinformation.@YorgisAtakis (formerly @drdavidsharon)@drsinanerdil / @drsinanerdileng@p_von_eulenburg

— ne mutlu Yunanım diyene (@inebahti) August 30, 2020

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Literally this morning I was searching for info about this mysterious Paola v Eulenburg because the account seemed super fake.

Oddly, a graduate from Princeton had no footprint at all. This is an age-old Gülenist tactic so interesting to see it attempted by others. https://t.co/H9XRRhb6xN

— Can Okar (@canokar) August 30, 2020

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This account is now private:

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Thousands of people (including serious academics) are following what seems to be a Turkish nationalist troll account using what seems to be an image of Mexican model Paula Nuñez as their profile photo. pic.twitter.com/B1W2CPZCp9

— Ariz Kader (@KaderAriz) August 30, 2020

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Turkey’s Covid-19 cases are as high as two months ago and “wedding inspectors” are part of new measures (!)

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Turkey reports highest daily Covid-19 cases in more than two months

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The number of active cases and “seriously ill patients” continues to increase as well.

Istanbul restricts indoor ceremonies as COVID-19 cases, deaths rise

Authorities in Istanbul announced curbs on weddings and other ceremonies in Turkey’s largest city on Aug. 29 as the number of daily coronavirus cases and deaths hit their highest level nationwide in more than two months.

From Aug. 31, indoor weddings, engagement parties and circumcision ceremonies will be banned, Istanbul’s governor’s office said. Children and people aged over 60 will be barred from outdoor ceremonies which still go ahead, it said.

Turkey unveils unusual tactic to control virus: wedding inspectors

The Financial Times – Laura Pitel in Golbasi – Aug 27, 9:00 PM

Some of the wedding guests looked startled when Ibrahim Simsek and his team wearing fluorescent jackets entered the venue in the Turkish town of Golbasi where they were awaiting the arrival of the bride and groom. They were quickly reassured that

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Not many will remember Yavuz Polat…

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Yavuz Polat, a street vendor in Erzincan, burned himself when his bench was seized; Yavuz Polat lost his life a few days ago…

News in Turkish here

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This is how journalists were trying to report at Erdoğan’s speech today…

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via  Today he was speaking at the Büyük Çamlıca Mosque.

and this was from yesterday: Bahçeli (L) and Erdoğan at the commemoration of the Battle of Manzikert. 

An interesting angle of photo shooting…

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A lawyer, #EbruTimtik is dead. She was on hunger strike demanding a fair trial…

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Reactions to lawyer Ebru Timtik’s death

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After arrested lawyer Ebru Timtik died on the 238th day of her death fast yesterday, politicians, lawyers and artists have criticized the silence in the face of her demands and underlined the importance of the right to a fair trial.

Lawyer Ebru Timtik dies on 238th day of death fast for a fair trial

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Timtik was forcibly hospitalized after the court refused to release her despite a Forensic Medicine Institution report.

Ebru Timtik’s funeral: Police use rubber bullets, tear gas against crowd, surround cemevi

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The police dispersed the people waiting in front of the Forensic Medicine Institution, Timtik’s body was brought to the cemevi in Gazi neighborhood.

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Surprised one offered… “Two out of Turkey’s top three phone carriers don’t offer phone services in Kurdish

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Two out of Turkey’s top three phone carriers don’t offer phone services in Kurdish

 

Turkish telecom giant denies providing services, assistance to woman for speaking Kurdish

Two out of Turkey’s top three cell phone carriers don’t offer services in any Kurdish dialects despite having millions of users whose mother language isn’t Turkish, English or Arabic, which are the only languages Türk Telekom and Vodafone work with.

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Gov’t ignored millions of voters’ wills via sacking 47 mayors in one year, HDP says in report on trustees

The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has prepared a report on trustees, saying that the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) ignored the votes of millions of people via sacking 47 mayors in the past year.

According to the report, 18 co-mayors were arrested and the appointment of trustees resulted in ignoring the 4,268,558 voters who cast their votes in the March 31, 2019 local elections.

HDP: Four million votes ‘robbed’ with mayor dismissals

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The government has taken over 47 of the 65 municipalities won by the HDP in the Kurdish-majority provinces.

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Two digital archives: Black Lives Matter & COVID-19 Street Art

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A New Digital Archive Preserves Black Lives Matter & COVID-19 Street Art

Open Culture by Josh Jones

 

What happens when anti-racist protesters gather in the streets and are not met with tear gas, rubber bullets, and batons? For one thing, they make art and graffiti. Lots of it, on walls, streets, sidewalks, courthouse doors, the plywood of boarded-up windows, wherever. Public activist art serves not only as a memorial for victims of state oppression, but as a way to imagine what the future needs and visually occupy the space to make it happen. In the intertwining “mutual relations of the political and the aesthetic,” symbols can begin to call real conditions into existence.

Make submissions to the COVID-19 Street Art archive here and to the George Floyd & Anti-Racist Street Art archive here.

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A Viking neighborhood in #Istanbul

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I will go and visit the archeological excavations this weekend.

Archaeologists unearth Viking neighborhood in Istanbul

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Archaeologists looking for traces of the Vikings in Istanbul have discovered a Viking neighborhood in the ancient city of Bathonea near Lake Küçükçekmece, officials told daily Milliyet.

Turkey introduces new dress code to visit Hagia Sophia

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Istanbul or ‘Coinstantinople’? Inside Turkey’s Bitcoin Bull Market

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BTCTurk CEO Ozgur Güneri, head of the largest crypto exchange in Istanbul, with the most Turkish banking access of any exchange in the region, said

Formula 1 back in İstanbul after 9 years

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5 reasons we’re excited F1 is going back to Istanbul Park – including the return of epic Turn 8

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Archaeologists unearth Viking neighborhood in Istanbul

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“Vikings lived in Istanbul between the eighth and the 11th centuries in different periods. We have found their exact settlement area to be between the

Salon Alper Derinbogaz designs “pandemic resistant” offices for university in Istanbul

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Consulate General of Belgium in Istanbul

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Archives as fields of heritage-making in istanbul’s historic peninsula

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The research article “Archives as fields of heritage-making in istanbul’s historic peninsula”, authored by METU member Asst. Prof. Pınar Aykaç

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I am not surprised: “Zuckerberg lobbied against TikTok in a private meeting with Trump

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Zuckerberg lobbied against TikTok in a private meeting with Trump, report reveals

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It’s no secret that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sees TikTok as a threat. On several occasions, he has brought up TikTok‘s data collection and censorship policies to point out that the app might be a threat to the American democracy. While TikTok is now battling for survival in the US, it seems that Zuckerberg might’ve played a key role in the app’s current situation. According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, he discussed TikTok and threats from other Chinese internet companies to American businesses at a private dinner with President Donald Trump last October. WSJ’s report also notes…

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