Posts Tagged ‘Recep Tayyip Erdogan’
Culture of Protest: Shoeing
October 2nd, 2009 by lifeproof
Yesterday, a 24 year old Turkish university student, who is a journalist at the same time at a small left wing newspaper, BirGün, has thrown his Nike shoe at IMF‘s president Dominique Strauss-Kahn, while he was taking questions from students, after his speech at Istanbul Bilgi University. This was a protest that was influenced from [...]
Tags: Ahmedabad, Beşir Atalay, BirGün, Dainik Jagaran, Davos, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, egging, flag burning, flag desacration, George W Bush, IMF, iraq, Istanbul, Istanbul Bilgi University, Jarnail Singh, journalism, journalist, Manmohan Singh, Muntadhar al-Zaidi, Nike, P. Chidambaram, pieing, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Reuters, Selçuk Özbek, shoe, shoe throwing, shoeing, Sikh journalist, Turkey, Turkish politics, Wen Jiabao, World Economic Forum, World Economic Forum in Davos
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Conquest of Free Speech, Opposition and Journalism in Turkey
September 12th, 2009 by lifeproof
This week Dogan Yayin Holding (Dogan Media Group), which is one of the major media groups that owns several newspapers and tv channels as well as dozens of magazines, has been fined an enormous amount of tax fee, which if paid is the end of the whole conglomerate. It is $2.5 billion if you are [...]
Tags: AK Party, Atv, Calik Grubu, Cem Uzan, Ciner, Ciner Holding, CNN Turk, Dinc Bilgin, Genc Parti, Hurriyet, rece, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Sabah, Star TV, Tayyip Erdogan, TMSF, Turgay Ciner, Uzan Holding, Vodafone
Posted in Black Yogurt Chronicles, PoliTickles
NoTube
July 13th, 2009 by lifeproof
I have returned to Turkey about a month ago to live here in my home country for sometime, but I did not imagine it to be this hard in many aspects. One of those hardships is YouTube in Exile. I wanted to share a video about an iPhone application in my previous blog, but it [...]
Tags: G20, prohibition, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey, YouTube
Posted in Black Yogurt Chronicles
Turkey: Bridge between which East and West?
May 19th, 2009 by lifeproof
After 7 years in government, however AK Party’s votes decreased visibly 8% in 2009 local elections, it is still the strongest party and does not have any apparent competitors in the new Turkish political field, which has been established through their ascendance to power. There, no doubt, happened a drastic change in Turkish political field, [...]
Tags: 2002 elections, 2009 elections, Barack Obama, Black Turks, Bush, conservative democracy, Erdogan, George W Bush, icon of democracy, Milli Gorus, Muhafazakar Demokrasi, National Outlook, Necmettin Erbakan, Obama, politics, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Refah Partisi, Tayyip Erdogan, the European Union, the United States, the Welfare Party, the wolf in sheep clothes, Turkey, White Turks
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