Channel 4 News: Seven reasons why Turkey’s Twitter ban matters to the world – Paul Mason

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1. Erdogan’s pretext for shutting down Twitter is the existence of two accounts he claims are slanderous, which have been linking to allegedly fake recordings that show him as corrupt. This is not the first time a government has threatened, or acted, to shut down Twitter when faced with political opposition. When Mubarak did it he was overthrown shortly afterwards. Erdogan enjoys [...] → Read the full article…

Hurriyet Daily News: Turkey blocks Twitter, after Erdogan vowed ‘eradication’

'We’ll eradicate Twitter. I don’t care what the international community says,' Turkish PM Erdoğan said at his campaign rally in Bursa. DHA Photo

Turkey has blocked access to Twitter, hours after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to close down the social media platform. “We now have a court order. We’ll eradicate Twitter. I don’t care what the international community says. Everyone will witness the power of the Turkish Republic,” Erdogan said at his campaign rally in the western city of Bursa on [...] → Read the full article…

New York Times: After the Protests – Zeynep Tufekci

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Media in the hands of citizens can rattle regimes. It makes it much harder for rulers to maintain legitimacy by controlling the public sphere. But activists, who have made such effective use of technology to rally supporters, still need to figure out how to convert that energy into greater impact. LAST Wednesday, more than 100,000 people showed up in Istanbul [...] → Read the full article…

English Pen: Turkey: end human rights violations against writers and journalists

Restrictions on freedom of expression during and following the Gezi Park protests The Turkish authorities severely restricted the right to freedom of expression of journalists and writers during and after the Gezi Park protests in 2013, English PEN and PEN International said in a new joint report published today. Journalists, protesters and social media users are still facing prosecution in [...] → Read the full article…

Independent: Istanbul protesters take ‘Ellen selfie’ from the back of a police van

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It seems there is no limit to the copycats of Ellen DeGeneres’ Oscars selfie, with protesters in Istanbul getting in on the act during clashes in the Turkish city. The group even managed to top the chat show host in terms of numbers, cramming 14 people into the shot compared to Ellen’s 12, which was taken in an environment much less [...] → Read the full article…

The New Yorker: Grief and Outrage in Turkey – Jenna Krajeski

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Erdoğan’s strategy since Gezi has been to polarize the electorate, disowning those who speak against him and trumpeting his role as a fighter for those who support the party. But his indifference to Elvan’s fate exhibited cruelty rather than strength. On Tuesday, a fifteen-year-old Turkish Alevi named Berkin Elvan died, sparking the country’s largest anti-government protests since last summer, when [...] → Read the full article…

The American Interest: The End of Erdogan – Henri J. Barkey

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Even if his party manages to scrape by in Turkey’s upcoming municipal elections on March 30, Prime Minister Erdogan has already done irreparable harm to his brand. It is hard to imagine how in any society a Prime Minister caught on tape firing journalists because he does not like their point of view or instructing television stations to stop the [...] → Read the full article…

Today’s Zaman: Turkey’s former EU minister calls funeral attendees necrophiliacs

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  Turkey’s former chief negotiator and EU Affairs Minister Egemen Bağış called those who went to the funeral of Berkin Elvan, a teenage boy who died after nine months in a coma as a result of being hit in the head by a tear gas canister during the Gezi Park protests last year, necrophiliacs, a comment that has drawn wide [...] → Read the full article…

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