Attack on Al Jazeera cameramen condemned
Source: Al Jazeera
İstanbul :: Turkey | updated 2013-06-19 02:33:20 -0700 | disasters-news
51 Media groups say police have been targeting journalists with a view to silence them [AFP] The Turkish Journalists' Association (TGC) has condemned the recent assault on two Al Jazeera journalists by riot police in Istanbul's Taksim Square.
Turkey's 'standing man' joins ranks of icons
Source: The Boston Globe
İstanbul :: Turkey | updated 2013-06-18 23:24:33 -0700 | political-news
This is a June 11, 1963 file photo of Thich Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk, burns himself to death on a Saigon street South Vietnam to protest alleged persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government. (AP Photo/Malcolm Browne, File)...
Extending a Hand Abroad, Obama Often Finds a Cold Shoulder
Source: Newyork Times
İstanbul :: Turkey | updated 2013-06-18 19:39:25 -0700 | political-news
Over porterhouse steak and cherry pie at a desert estate in California earlier this month, President Obama delivered a stern lecture to President Xi Jinping about Chinas disputes with its neighbors. If it is going to be a rising power,...
'Standing Man' leads Turkish protest
Posted by: GreatReporter
İstanbul :: Turkey | updated 2013-06-19 02:59:53 -0700 | political-news
Well now Turkish protests are starting new way of protest against the government.they gives silent treatment to the government of Turkey.There is the news of Tuesday from the Takism square that hundred of men and women stand silently in Istanbul....
Irony: Turkish Prime Minister Claims Victory over protestors
Posted by: muhammad usman ali
İstanbul :: Turkey | updated 2013-06-18 23:00:14 -0700 | disasters-news
After long week of clashes between demonstrators and Police Turkey’s Prime minister has claimed victory against the protestors .He says that "Our democracy has been tested again and came out victoriously." On the other hand protestors still observing silent protest...
Indian rupee weakens by 59 paise vs dollar
Source: Indian Express
İstanbul :: Turkey | updated 2013-06-17 23:23:27 -0700 | business-news
It hovered in a range of 58.22 per dollar and 58.46 per dollar during the late morning deals. Persistent dollar demand from banks and importers in view of firm dollar overseas mainly affected the rupee value against the dollar, a...
Turkish police dissolved a silent demonstration in Taksim Square
Posted by: rsa76
İstanbul :: Turkey | updated 2013-06-19 02:33:08 -0700 | disasters-news
The Turkish police has expelled today from Istanbul's Taksim Square hundreds of people gathered peacefully and quietly and have arrested at least a dozen of them, according to Efe could verify. A small crowd had gathered at the scene following...
Turkish Official Says Army May Have to End Protests
Source: International Herald Tribune
İstanbul :: Turkey | updated 2013-06-18 07:25:25 -0700 | travel-news
Turkeys deputy prime minister on Monday raised the possibility that the army could be called in to help quell the continuing civil unrest, the latest sign of the governments impatience and officials hardening stance against a nearly three-week-old protest movement....
Many Protesters Arrested; Hospital Targeted
Posted by: chnarendra
İstanbul :: Turkey | updated 2013-06-17 18:15:49 -0700 | disasters-news
The Erdoğan government’s use of force in a clampdown on protesters over the weekend has precipitated a deepening human rights and political crisis in Turkey. Human Rights Watch documented a huge wave of arbitrary detentions and police attacks on people...
On the Road: Travel Security Companies Watch a Volatile World
Source: The New York Times
İstanbul :: Turkey | updated 2013-06-17 15:03:48 -0700 | business-news
The concern now is primarily over the effect that volcanic ash has had, and potentially again could have, on air traffic, said Mr. Puig, a former travel and cargo security executive with Target and a former agent in the clandestine...
After the Protests: What It Takes to Start Up in Turkey
Source: Entrepreneur
İstanbul :: Turkey | updated 2013-06-17 14:49:38 -0700 | business-news
While Turkish protests have captured the world's attention in recent weeks, talk of business opportunities in the developing nation has been picking up for some time. Not only did an entire delegation from the Turkish government, including high-profile diplomats, travel...
Kiwi swimmer upgraded to bronze
Source: New Zealand Herald
İstanbul :: Turkey | updated 2013-06-17 18:47:00 -0700 | sports-news
New Zealand swimmer Matthew Stanley has been upgraded to a bronze medal at last year's world short-course championships after Denmark's Mads Glaesner failed a drug test. The Danish swimming federation says Glaesner received a three-month suspension after testing positive for...
Fraudulent democracy and urban stasis in Turkey
Source: Open Democracy
İstanbul :: Turkey | updated 2013-06-17 12:19:07 -0700 | political-news
Graffiti in Istanbul Democracy is a fraudulent contract, Jose Saramago once remarked; from the moment you cast your vote, you have abandoned power until the next election. This may be the way democratic elections work, but it is not how...
Gezi Park has become a hotbed of activity as Turks make their stand
Source: War In Context
İstanbul :: Turkey | updated 2013-06-17 11:25:25 -0700 | disasters-news
We don't share the same political views, and we don't agree on everything, he admits...Few romanticise this unexpected eruption of pluralist civil society. Every now and then, small verbal skirmishes break out: nationalists grumble at flags of the jailed Kurdish...
Yoga and politics
Source: Red Pepper
İstanbul :: Turkey | updated 2013-06-17 09:51:48 -0700 | political-news
This week Turkish riot police stormed Istanbul's Taksim Square, where pro-democracy protestors have been demonstrating. Taksim Square backs on to Gezi Park where the protests began. Here, we have seen yoga and politics come together in a dramatic fashion as...
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