The sight of Europe’s leaders kowtowing to the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, was sickening
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Western leaders could destroy Islamic State by calling on Erdoğan to end his attacks on Kurdish forces in Syria and Turkey and allow them to fight Isis on the ground 
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A US-led raid in May uncovered evidence of financial dealings between Turkey and ISIS.
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From Istanbul to Barcelona, the co-operative movement is flourishing as employees revive what the bosses buried
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How the world saw Turkey's Twitter ban. Widely shared.
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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is calling for a ban on social media once again A spokesperson for this office said on Monday that a prosecutor has ordered Internet providers to block sites that include YouTube and Twitter, which is...
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Locals enjoying a prototype platform anchored off the Turkish city of İzmir last fall.
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October 24, 2014 "ICH" - "Asia Times" - The brave women of Kobani - where Syrian Kurds are desperately fighting ISIS/ISIL/Daesh - are about to be betrayed by the "international community". These women warriors, apart from Caliph Ibrahim's goons, are also fighting treacherous agendas by the US, Turkey and the administration of Iraqi Kurdistan. So what's the real deal in Kobani?
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Turkey is the latest country to block Twitter and YouTube, but it's not the only one.
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Turkey is the latest country to block Twitter and YouTube, but it's not the only one.
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How Turkey’s active networked society has created a ‘dictator’s dilemma’ that has seen Erdogan utilise both traditional and modern methods of control, drawing from ‘first, second and third generation’ strategies of communication censorship.
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The legality of the National Security Agency’s (NSA’s) use of US citizens’ metadata to identify and track foreign intelligence organizations and their operatives is currently a subject of much debate. Less well understood (and consequently routinely misreported) are the capabilities and limitations of social network analysis, the methodology often used to evaluate this metadata.
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Squatters in Istanbul reclaim their ‘right to the city’ and fight for social justice in a city where big business sets the urban development agenda.
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Why France’s brave new war on ISIS is a sick joke, and an insult to the victims of the Paris attacks
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Western leaders could destroy Islamic State by calling on Erdoğan to end his attacks on Kurdish forces in Syria and Turkey and allow them to fight Isis on the ground
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This is a documentary by MTV. Erdogan’s party recently lost its absolute majority in Parliament. Watch it here:
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From Istanbul to Barcelona, the co-operative movement is flourishing as employees revive what the bosses buried
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This week, a Turkish court ruled to block Twitter, Facebook,YouTube and other sites—once again attempting to block Turkish users from access to an uncensored media.
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The neoliberal city is the motor of Erdogan’s Turkey
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As the Turkish government continues to squeeze freedom of expression, many Turks have found themselves resorting increasingly to social media in order to learn what's going on in their country. (92 percent of Turkey's online population now uses social media, the highest share in the world.) But this refuge is now coming under severe pressure as well. And the trend is particularly noticeable in the case of Twitter.
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"If Twitter, YouTube and Facebook will be honest, if they'll stop being so immoral, stop attacking families, we'll support them.” So says Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. If one were trying to do comedy about the vilification of the Internets and their corrupting influence, it would be hard to come up with something much better (or more suitable for re-tweeting). Mashable has published acraziest quotes list, but the list is in dire need of updating. Since Turkey’s courts impelled him to lift his ban on Twitter (YouTube and tens of thousands of other sites remain blocked), Erdogan has come up with even better lines.
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(Reuters) - Turkey blocked YouTube as a precaution after voice recordings purportedly of senior officials discussing a potential military operation in Syria created "a national security issue", a source at the prime minister's office said on Thursday.
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Turkey isn’t trying to be North Korea, China or Iran; it’s trying to be Azerbaijan (@rmack thoughts on @zeynep's recent piece on Turkey's Twitter block? Is Turkey practicing networked authoritarianism?
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Turkish Government banned Twitter - They way around Tips and Tricks =) =) =) =) The turkish Government banned twitter. We need all your help to g
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Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan hinted that his government may shut down Facebook and YouTube after March 30 local elections to what he says avert negative effects of internet on society, a move would likely spark public backlash given the mounting social unrest and uneasiness over government’s growing encroachment on people’s lives and media.
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