Election updates: Kurdish-left alliance declares support for Kılıçdaroğlu as Arrests rise to 28 in crackdown on Kurdish-linked groups

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Turkey’s leader Erdogan cancels third day of election appearances

Kurdish-left alliance declares support for Kılıçdaroğlu in Turkey elections

Arrests rise to 28 in crackdown on Kurdish-linked groups

Turkey’s interior minister says May elections ‘a political coup attempt by West’

Destiny makes Turks and Kurds brothers: CHP leader

Journalist Serdar Akinan detained in police raid on his home

Turkey’s Erdogan falls ill on TV and cancels election rallies

Erdoğan’s propaganda machine faces ultimate test

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New photo from Facebook April 28, 2023 at 05:04PM

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Quoted in University of Oslo newspaper along with @suleymanirvan

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Every 3-4 years, Martin and Ola visit İstanbul and interview me with other academics or journalists. This year it was me and Süleyman İrvan.

Here is the link to their interview.

I look here more handsome than I am. Foto: Ola Gamst Sæther

 

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Open access Creator Culture & Digital Ethnography reading lists by @ZoeGlatt

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• Influencer Industries and Creator Culture reading list: https://t.co/Z8fbfmkojd
• Digital Ethnography reading list (resource of The Digital Ethnography Collective): https://t.co/ggTw5zeVaR
  

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Advocating for Archaeology’s New Purpose

SAPIENS by Bridget Alex 

Archaeologists can help communities retake what colonialism and racism tried to erase through a new goal of “archaeological reclamation.”

The following individuals co-authored this essay: Lindsay M. Montgomery (University of Toronto), Anna S. Agbe-Davies (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Craig Cipolla (Tufts University), Stephen Mrozowski (University of Massachusetts, Boston), Nate Acebo (University of Connecticut), Stacey Camp (Michigan State University), Wade Campbell (Boston University), Edward Gonzalez Tennant (University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley), Alexandra Jones (Archaeology in the Community), Carol McDavid (Community Archaeology Research Institute), Alicia Odewale (University of Tulsa), Emily Van Alst (University of Indiana), William A. White (University of California, Berkeley).

Towards an Anthropology of Surveillance

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Towards an Anthropology of Surveillance

With the rapid growth of metadata and political and corporate surveillance in America during the last two decades, anthropologists Roberto J. González and David H. Price—long-time contributors to CounterPunch—have been studying the impacts and implications of these developments. Both Price and González recently published books that critically examine surveillance in the United States (Price’s The American Surveillance State: How the U.S. Spies on Dissent and González’s War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future). Below are excerpts from an extended conversation between the two on the cultural, military, and political dimensions of surveillance, technology, culture, and power.

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Fourteen Discoveries Made About Human Evolution in 2022 | At the …

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Fourteen Discoveries Made About Human Evolution in 2022 | At the ..

What Is Linguistic Anthropology?

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Linguistic anthropologists study language in context, revealing how people’s ways of communicating and expressing themselves interact with human culture, history, politics, identity, and much more.

WHAT IS LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY?

Linguistic anthropology examines the relationships between language, culture, and society.

Linguistic anthropologists regard language as a form of social action. In other words, we explore how language is one of the ways people create and sustain cultural beliefs, relationships, and identities. As a means of expression and an expressive practice, language fashions most aspects of the human experience—from the pronouns we use to the political rhetoric we hear.

Because language and culture influence one another, linguistic anthropologists analyze grammatical forms and communicative practices to understand how language shapes thought. Even subtle linguistic choices—such as the decision to put a “the” in front of a word—can shape people’s inferences, memories, and judgments. The ways people use and learn language in everyday contexts also significantly impacts creativity, perception, and cognition.

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Top 14 Discoveries in Human Evolution, 2022 Edition

PLOS

 

Top 14 Discoveries in Human Evolution, 2022 Edition

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Turkey’s pre-election tradition: Hundreds, including journalists and lawyers of pro-Kurdish citizens detained

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Journalists, lawyers, politicians detained across Turkey in raids targeting pro-Kurdish groups

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Police have detained dozens of people, including journalists, politicians, lawyers, artists, and activists in early morning raids across 21 cities.

The raids carried out as part of a Diyarbakır based investigation mostly targeted pro-Kurdish organizations, including the Mezopotamya Agency (MA), the Yeni Yaşam Newspaper, the Lawyers for Freedom Association (ÖHD) and the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP).

The charges are still unclear because of the confidentiality order on the investigation, the Diyarbakır Bar Association said.

Ten journalists among detainees after massive crackdown across Turkey

Over 100 journalists, lawyers, politicians detained in raids targeting pro-Kurdish groups

Pre-election crackdown on Kurdish groups draws condemnation

‘Blood supply inadequate in case of an earthquake in Turkey’

Why the Turkish elections are a big test for Erdoğan | Start Here

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4 Countries in 4 Days and 3 Atlas Obscura sites visited

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I am currently in Geneva, attending UN meetings on journalism safety. It was not planned, but I had to travel frequently in recent days. I attend a COST project in Warsaw, briefly visited Vienna with my wife, and socialized with a former grad student and lifelong friend and now in Geneva at work. In the meantime, I visit places I saved in my Google Maps account. I have listed nearly all ancient settlements in Turkey to see- I have such a task to accomplish, and now I work on the Atlas Obscura sites. I began to visit these more “obscure” sites, such as Globe Museum of the Austrian National Library. Esperanto Museum of the Austrian National Library.

 

The places I would like to see continuously saved in my Google Maps.

The number of views of photos from the places I visited and then uploaded to Google Maps

 

 

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New photo from Facebook April 23, 2023 at 08:17PM

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Kılıçdaroğlu videos on Twitter may have surpassed Messi’s record

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Actually the Kilicdaroglu video now ranks the most viewed video on Twitter globally since 2022 surpassing the previously top ranked #Messi video which clocked 25 M views. We are witnessing a phenomenon. Speaks volumes. https://t.co/YiA6QlZMcC https://t.co/xGNqHIOjgr

— Sinan Ulgen (@sinanulgen1) April 22, 2023

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36 hours after it was posted online, Turkish opposition pres candidate Kilicdaroglu's tweet has been seen by 90M and the video's been watched 25M times. Those are Game of Thrones, Taylor Swift numbers. https://t.co/oplBD8CFv6

— David Lepeska (@dlepeska) April 21, 2023

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Kılıçdaroğlu accuses Erdoğan of ‘labeling millions of Kurds as terrorists’

Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, presidential candidate of Turkey’s main opposition bloc, has criticized President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Kılıçdaroğlu promises equal rights for Turkey’s Alevi minority

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Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the presidential candidate of the opposition Nation’s Alliance, has spoken out for the equal citizenship of Turkey’s Alevi religious minority.

In a Twitter video released late yesterday (April 18), Kılıçdaroğlu, who is himself an Alevi, emphasized the importance of protecting one’s identity and demanded an end to the divisive system in Turkey.

Turkey’s soft-spoken Kemal Kilicdaroglu takes on powerful Erdogan

Turkey’s soft-spoken Kemal Kilicdaroglu takes on powerful Erdogan

Image source, Mahmut Serdar Alakus/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Image caption,Slowly but surely Kemal Kilicdaroglu has changed Turkey’s opposition Republican People’s Party into a vote-winner

 

Erdoğan and Soylu attack LGBTI+ community during election campaigns – Duvar English

Duvar English

… Party (AKP) has had a particularly firm stance against the LGBTI+ community since the Gezi Park protest of 2013 and the coup attempt of 2016

CHP hangs poster of Kılıçdaroğlu on historic Istanbul City Walls after gov’t refusal to remove … Duvar English After the ruling AKP has refused to remove Erdoğan’s poster from the historic Istanbul City Walls, the CHP has similarly hung presidential

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Kılıçdaroğlu videos making waves and a British-Iraqi Jihadist gets mad

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Settled in Britain, he has all the confidence to imply a call for the massacre of Alevis. If not ISIS, he is a Jihadist close to the Syrian jihadist mentality (ihvan?) He is also confident because he contributed to many Western media and established himself as an “expert.”

I have seen some fellows like him who get Western think tanks’ support and base their expertise on Western terminology but continue to promote authoritarian regimes in the non-West. Mr. Abdulrazaq is different from the others as his arguments are pretty aggressive.   He uses Twitter as a weapon and uses straw-man tactics to insult his critics.

Hate for Alevis and other non-traditional Islamic sects runs deep among some. "May the mere memory of Sultan Selim keep your cult from power" is a reference to the massacre of Alevis by Sultan Selim. For a "British-Iraqi" to spread such hate is appalling. Much less a journalist. pic.twitter.com/JjTUjmU2fz

— Louis Fishman لوي فيشمان לואי פישמן (@Istanbultelaviv) April 20, 2023

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He does not work for TRT World but seems to have regularly contributed. There are claims that TRT people are deleting, but I saw at least one case he contributed here. If you go to this site: https://www.trtworld.com/author/tallha.abdulrazaq, You will be directed to the home page. But archive.org record on 19 April shows that he contributed regularly: https://web.archive.org/web/20230419044513/https://www.trtworld.com/author/tallha.abdulrazaq

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2022 State of the Fact-Checkers Report released. Meta remains the biggest funding source

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I wonder what happens when Meta cuts the funds, which is likely.

Fact-checking organizations ramped up their budgets and diversified their focus in 2022, according to a new report that surveyed 93 verified signatories of the International Fact-Checking Network at Poynter.

The 2022 State of the Fact-Checkers Report by the IFCN underscores a critical shift in budgets, with more organizations operating with heftier financial resources, allowing them to address misinformation more effectively.

Meta’s Third Party Fact-Checking Program remains the foremost funding source for fact-checking organizations, contributing 45.2% of their total income. Grants constituted 29% of funding, while donations or membership subscriptions made up 6.5%. A novel fact-checking collaboration with TikTok emerged as a funding source for several organizations in 2022. More at the Poynter blog

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