December 25, 2006
A lawsuit against IBM is reviving debate over whether Web overuse may be classified as an addiction. The answer will have big implications for business by Catherine Holahan Don't let our girls stay uneducated. There are so many girls in...
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Ä°dil is to be 25, still young:) have a super happy birthday Ä°dil! Burcu is back in depression but i believe this is temporary. Dear Burcu you will get used to your new life and everything will be better. A...
December 17, 2006
I was feeling that I have been neglecting my room-mate, Nurdan (you know by now, my sister). So we did hang out together. After a long procrastination, we have gone to do some shopping- in fact our real intention was...
November 20, 2006
The game exhausted me but BeÅŸiktaÅŸ did not lose as most of us expected ! It could even win the game but our forward line is so incapable in finishing....So 0-0... I am so exhausted, I cannot even do news...
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October 03, 2006
The European Charter for Media Literacy exists to support the establishment of media literacy across Europe. By signing the Charter, organisations and individuals endorse a specific definition of media literacy, and commit to actions that will contribute to its...
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October 01, 2006
European Research on Cultural, Contextual and Risk Issues in Children's Safe Use of the Internet and New Media. EU Kids Online is a project funded by the EC Safer Internet plus Programme. The EU Kids Online project (2006-2009) will examine...
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September 10, 2006
While AN has a special section on neoliberalism in its most recent issue, Savage Minds has been on it for ages:) And here is a new web resource that includes a section for anthropology. Intute: Social Sciences has been created...
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June 28, 2006
Here is a huge forum page on Should Turkey join the EU. It is a Financial Times Forum page... The Anti Bullfighting Committee CAS was founded in 1990 by the Dutch Animal Protection Society and the World Society for the...
June 19, 2006
'May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.' Charles Lamb (1775 - 1834) Alex Havais in a very nice post says: I just submitted my last set of grades for the semester. This...
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June 01, 2006
From top to down: Onur Ilkisik, Elif Sudagezer, Aylin Turan, Karya Pazar, Cansu Guner, Timur Mader and Tevfik Alp. All from Bilgi University, most of all are my students. Congratulations boys and girls. We appreaciate your good work! The...
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May 25, 2006
This is funny. According to a conservative think tank's, Young America's Foundation Press Release - Leftist Ideas and Segregation Dominate Commencement Exercises in the US. It is claimed that 'Colleges Reject Diversity During Graduation Ceremonies' In the list of 2006...
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May 20, 2006
Houston Chronicle recommends 'some key blogs to watch'. This week in EuroQuest EuroBlog is also devoted to immigration news from Europe... Washington Post editorial blames Netherlands in Hirsi Ali case: Intolerant Netherlands; 'Is it possible to condemn Muslim extremism and...
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May 17, 2006
Concerned that some issues continue not to receive sustained media attention or slip off the radar screen, the United Nations Department of Public Information (DPI) has unveiled a new list of 'Ten Stories the World Should Hear More About.'......
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May 09, 2006
Man, it sucks. I could do 7 out 12:((( How well do you know the EU?...
May 03, 2006
The Fund for Peace announced second annual Failed States Report. Turkey occupies the 82th place. There is the Scandinavian miracle again. They are the least failing ones and Sudan, DRC, Cote d'Ivoire, Iraq, Zimbabwe, Chad, Somalia, Haiti, Pakistan, Afghanistan are...
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April 12, 2006
My dear audience, I don't think this is exactly related to EU politics but the title seemed to be interesting, let's see what kind of wind power is that... Making european-style community wind power development work in the United States...
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April 04, 2006
Striking wallpapers from Yulia Tymoshenko, representative of the Orange Party in Ukraine. Lobby watchdog Corporate Europe Observatory proposes an online 'virtual tour' of the EU quarter in Brussels just weeks before the Commission kicks-off a public debate on how...
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March 28, 2006
The European Commission launched on Monday an internet discussion on the future of Europe - citizens from around Europe have already started to contribute.... Here is the Debate Europe site. The SofiaEcho: READING ROOM: Turkish lessons by John Dyer Nouvelle...
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March 08, 2006
Source: NYU site. IFEX MEMBERS MARK INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY and provides a useful link list......
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March 06, 2006
"The level of agitation is rising everywhere, and the world-system has never been more anarchic than now. We may be going over the edge...." says Immanuel Wallerstein as begins his essay. Here is the the full text. EU AND TR...
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February 26, 2006
Besiktas head coach Jean Tigana (R) of France and his interpreter Sinan Serhatlioglu gesture to his players during a Turkey Super League soccer match against archrival Fenerbahce in Sukru Saracoglu Stadium in Istanbul February 26, 2006. The teams tied...
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February 21, 2006
There will be a live web cast at 14.00 GMT on Wednesday 22 February here: rtsp//nemo.wmin.ac.uk/a1.sdp You will be able to reach the site directly from the School of Media Art and Design's homepage at http://www.wmin.ac.uk/mad/page-130 The link will be...
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February 18, 2006
The Cinema and Media Studies Department at Carleton College in Minnesota has created a website, CameraIraq.com, which gathers news and commentary about public and personal photographic image practices associated with the "war of images in the Middle East." Items in...
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February 16, 2006
Cafebabel, first multilingual European magazine, celebrated its 5 years. Created in 2001 by a group of Erasmus and French students at the Institute of Political Science in Strasbourg, cafebabel.com very quickly evolved into a European network of journalists and...
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February 14, 2006
I was asked why I don't mention PM Erdoğan's addressing style to a peasant a few days ago. I don't know, I wasn't that stunned when I heard about it. Two blog entries frame the debate and I am...
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* An article from the Brookings Institute: "Turkey: On Europe's Verge? Great Decisions 2006"...by Henri J. Barkey, Chair of the Department of International Relations, Lehigh University and Omer Taspinar, Director, Turkey Program. * US cartoonist Art Spiegelman on the Mohammed...
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February 13, 2006
* Top 6 Topics to Avoid Discussing at Work. Oh well, I messed up then. I am quite talkative (!) * This is an official American site: Brief Impressions of U.S. Life and Culture * I have to admit....
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February 10, 2006
The Berlin Film Festival opens on Thursday with a gala screening of Snow Cake, starring Sigourney Weaver and Alan Rickman. Is it good or bad I don't really know but I am surprised to see how my mood depends...
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February 09, 2006
I finally watched the movie. It wasn't crowded as I was hoping. A gang of 5-6 youths forced a group of long-haired boys to leave their seats for other seats and, in my part, a family union requested me to...
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February 08, 2006
Anthropologists on Cartoon Row. Anthropologi.Info Round up. To the People of Denmark and Norway. We are Sorry In the middle of all the mayhem surrounding the Danish cartoons controversy, a group of Arab and Muslim youth have set up this...
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February 06, 2006
Mugla university lecturer associate professor Dr. Nurgun Oktit announced that Turkey is the 66th on the world’s suicide list... Here is a Suicide Prevention Guide for would-be suiciders. A NYT article by SEBNEM ARSU states that Turkey Balks on Widening...
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February 05, 2006
Another unfortunate news: An Italian Catholic priest has been shot dead outside his church in north-east Turkey....It was unclear if the shooting was connected to widespread Muslim outrage over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, BBC says... Trabzon is already...
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January 31, 2006
Taking to the Streets I am in my romantic mood and when I see the news about the commemoration, how could I skip this dear memory of human courage? BBC: Laying claim to Hungary's 1956 revolution More in 1956...
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January 30, 2006
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, left, smiles as he chats with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2006, during a dinner with a group of Turkish businessmen at the Ottoman era Dolmabahce Palace. (AP...
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January 27, 2006
Two bus drivers try to repair their cars in Tandogan Square in Ankara, January 24. Air, road and sea transport throughout Turkey are in a state of semi-paralysis after three days of bitter cold and heavy snows, with more...
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January 26, 2006
"Did you know that Patras, Olympic city in 2004 and fourth biggest city in Greece, is this year's cultural capital of Europe?" And what does it mean exactly to be the European capital of culture? Here is from a...
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January 23, 2006
Google itself is a news item and as a follow up: Google to fight U.S. demand for data. BBC produced a documentary called The world according to Google... The CyberJournalist mentiones Google's news related new features. In the busy world...
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January 19, 2006
Turkish children play soccer in the eastern Turkish village of Bardakci, near the city of Van, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2006. Residents of a village on the shores of lake Van wait for Agriculture department teams to cull their fowl...
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January 16, 2006
I have been waiting in my office for an extended office hour service. The final for MED 101 will be held on Thursday, so i thought I would be helpful to wait here since I would come anyway because of...
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I think not only metaphorically but also literally i am broke. After a year of miscalculation of my bills, I had to pay a substantive amount to my landlord. In fact, I could not pay it all so i will...
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January 15, 2006
Thanks to Özge Genç, I have realized the importance of the Project on the Revitalization of the Erez Industrial Estate. The project is organized by The Industry for Peace Initiative which is managed by TEPAV/EPRI (Turkish Economy Research Foundation/The Economic...
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07:38 PM
Anthropology.Net posted a link that discusses anthropology and blogging. On the other hand Anthropologi.Info brings an anthropological approach to the discussion of recent French Riots by giving several anthro links. And here is a list of seminars that will take...
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I am in a hurry to see another movie. Before that, in a crowded internet cafe where people/children I mean are playing online multiplayer games, here are some docs to see. Hard News will be coming when I am back...
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January 14, 2006
Vincent Boland (in Ankara) from Financial Times praises Turkish healthauthorities as he says No crisis as Turkish authorities get to grips with bird flu: "Even Turkey's sceptical media has turned its attention elsewhere: for the past two days the news...
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January 13, 2006
The Polish Schuman Foundation has launched an online computer game based on the European Parliament, Polish press agency PAP reports. The original site is in Polish and i did not try it... So it is up to you... EU Enlargement...
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Thanks to The Blogging Journalist, I became aware of Reporters Without Borders's "six concrete proposals aimed at ensuring that Internet-sector companies respect free expression when operating in repressive countries."...
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January 12, 2006
Fieldnotes and then Kambiz Kamrani from Anthopology.net commented on coffee culture... Like McDonald's, Starbucks entered Turkish life as a more upper class phenomenon than it is in the States. The first Starbucks branches in Turkey are all located in classy...
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January 11, 2006
The Sun Online is making history today by hosting the first ever podcast by a British Prime Minister. And click here to hear the five minute podcast....Thanks Ariana for notifying me this event and I hope in near future...
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January 10, 2006
AFP Photo: Turkish Health Minister Recep Akdag (R) embraces Zeki Kocyigit -- the father of two children... Mr. Akdag says people shouldn't have chicken and poultry in general but the problem is in a country whose half of the...
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January 08, 2006
Do you wanna know 'how UK rides the EU gravy train? A Sunday Times article... Regional fact sheet by US Energy Information Administration... Thanks to Turcopundit's excellent press review, I have become aware of these links: In National Review, Victor...
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January 07, 2006
After a long night of two films, Dressed to Kill and the Interpreter, and a little reading, i am still at home and i still don't know if there is panic outside or not (!) I asked the janitor to...
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January 05, 2006
Second child dies from bird flu in Van Fatma Kocyigit, who was taken under medical treatment in Van 100. Yil Hospital and who was diagnosed with bird flu, died on Thursday. Fatma Kocyigit (who was 15 years old) was the...
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January 03, 2006
You know I whined a lot about not getting big research grants, but what can I do in this world if even the Booker Prizer winnings are rejected? :)) Click here to see The Sunday Times piece on what happened...
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January 02, 2006
The EU league table of warmongers, with number of conflict years between 1946 and 2004 is, based on data from Centre for Study of Civil War as follows: UK – 80 France – 68 Portugal – 41 Netherlands – 15...
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December 30, 2005
Fotomuhabiri.com collected several best of 2005 photo links in this page. In a review essay entitled as 'Review of the year: The European Union', Stephen Castle argues that Deep divisions betray a union in name only in the British daily,...
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I have not seen yet a better Istanbul daily life photo site: Habibe's Blog offers super cool daily life pictures. Another site of Istanbul Photos provided by a Berliner... This is equally a cool site... And a nice animation on...
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December 29, 2005
[update: Controversial EU porn-posters to be removed] EU sex-posters spark protests in Austria Three naked models masked as Jacques Chirac, Queen Elizabeth and George W. Bush depicted in sexual positions have caused embarrassment just a few days ahead of Austria...
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December 28, 2005
A handout picture released by the European Space Agency (ESA) shows a Soyuz rocket carrying the GIOVE-A Galileo satellite on the launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan December 28, 2005. The European Union launched its first Galileo...
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December 27, 2005
Council on Foreign Relations issued an essay on Turkey's EU Bid. This is a good read for the interested parties. For the Turkish speakers here is a file in Turkish that summarizes the current negotiations: Negotiations with EU in 13...
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December 25, 2005
Turkish Torque has a cute link here on Akhisar watermelon carvers... The picture above is only one of them......
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December 21, 2005
According to BBC Eurosceptics and europhiles are both demanding major reform of the European Union, according to a new report. Call for reforms unites the factions... At this link, you will find a BBC site that gives on overview of...
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December 17, 2005
The Independent provides a daily routine of Mandelson, 3,200 journos, 2,200 NGOs and a rice riot it's enough to turn anyone cranky . Good to read... Meanwhile, according to Forbes, European Union Leaders Agree on Spending guess budget...
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December 14, 2005
TV advertising shakeup clears way for product placement Nick Watt in Brussels and Jason Deans The European commission today finally unveiled its updated TV Without Frontiers rules, including a relaxation of product placement guidelines, following last-minute wrangling between commissioners. Media...
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December 12, 2005
Thanks to Ceren Mert, I would like to present a smoking kills animation. There is an Expat Community Portal Mymerhabarelated to expats living in Turkey. At a first glance, it seems to be a wonderful source for those interested...
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Pauloya, a Portuguese software engineer who lives in Istanbul, shares my anxiety for Istiklal Street. Thanks man:) While I was grading some of the papers written about the movie, All the President's Men, I remembered how I admired the way...
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02:56 AM
Just a day after FBI chief leaves, CIA director comes to town. Porter Goss will have several meetings and probably I will have lots of commentaries to publish soon. Ozkok comments on Nilufer Gole's latest book, Interpretations: Islam and...
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December 09, 2005
Health Inequalities in EU As the European Union is opening its doors to the East, more attention is being drawn to the fact that the citizens of the less wealthy Central and Eastern European countries have poorer health and shorter...
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December 08, 2005
7 online strategies for the New Newspaper by Editors' Weblog US website depicts foreign press coverage of America WatchingAmerica.com is a website dedicated to showing Americans how their country is reported on in the foreign press. The site is edited...
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December 07, 2005
The voice of Kipling is among those to be heard on the archive Historic recordings of poets such as Tennyson, Yeats, Kipling, Betjeman and Sassoon are being made available through a new online initiative. The European Interactive Advertising Association released...
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EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Prime minister of Luxembourg Jean-Claude Juncker last night in Brussels received the EV50 award of European of the year. The prize was given to Mr Juncker at a fashionable gala evening at the Palais d’Egmont...
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December 06, 2005
Free-market eurosceptics from politics and think tanks joined forces to create a new eurosceptic network in Brussels on Monday (5 December), the possible election of David Cameron as UK conservative leader could prompt the formation of a new anti-EU integration...
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November 27, 2005
Dorothy Woodend points out national identities embedded in European films while discussing European Union Film Festival......
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November 26, 2005
I had come accross a very interesting official document: European values in the globalised world. This is 'Contribution of the Commission to the October Meeting of Heads of State and Government' which is dated as 20.10.2005. Meanwhile, I couldn't follow...
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My dear audience, I cannot describe how happy I become when I discover a new author. At the same time, every time, I feel a bit ashamed to discover him/her so late. Thanks to my dear friends Cetin and Yasin,...
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November 25, 2005
The report alerts that press freedom in the world is in decline. However, there is good news for Turkey:) Among 194 countries Turkey moved 2 steps up in its press freedom performance: Last year Turkey occupied the 107th place...
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November 24, 2005
According to an Editors Weblog entry The Swiss weekly L'Hebdo gives a good example of interaction between online and print journalism. A few days ago, the newspaper decided to send a part of its newsroom to Bondy, a Northen Paris...
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November 23, 2005
Thanks to Müge Doğrular, I got this link to a funny animation that compares Italian daily life with EU people in general. I saw another version of this before and I guess Italy can be substituted with Greece and increasingly...
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November 22, 2005
I had come across to find another lively EU think tank: 'Friends of Europe (FoE) is a leading Brussels-based think-tank for EU policy analysis and debate that is independent of the EU institutions and without national or political bias....
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11:09 PM
Picasso in Istanbul 24.11.2005 - 26.03.2006 Sabancı University's Sakıp Sabancı Museum is hosting an exhibition of works by Pablo Picasso, one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century. Picasso in Istanbul will be the first major exhibition devoted...
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November 18, 2005
Reporters Without Borders marks the World Summit on the Information Society by presenting 15 countries that are “enemies of the Internet” and pointing to a dozen others whose attitude to it is worrying. Among the worrying ones, there is...
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The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) is taking place these days in Tunis: http://www.itu.int/wsis/You can find live and archived webcasts as well as documents on the Summit at: http://www.itu.int/wsis/tunis/index.html UNESCO at WSIS (Construction Knowledge Society): http://makeashorterlink.com/?B3BB61C2C News...
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November 17, 2005
At this early morning of Thursday, I was checking my emails for the last time before going to bed when I found out a document entitled as 'Progress of EU-Turkish Relations' This 208 page document lists journalistic coverage of EU-Turkey...
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November 16, 2005
This French-English language magazine, Newropeans, has many writers who are younger than me. I have not thoroughly investigated the magazine yet but as far as I can see it could be a good source to get news and commentaries...
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November 15, 2005
I had come accross another active EU think tank: Centre for European Reform (CER) and in its website Heather Grabbe's article on EU-Turkey relations can be found. Here is the abstract of the paper: When negotiations begin: The next...
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November 12, 2005
I would like to point out a low-selling but very informative Turkish newspaper: Referans. Its daily circulation is around 10 thousand and it is accepted to be low even in Turkey's standards. It replaced a more economy focused newspaper...
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November 11, 2005
I had come across to the first issue of a bulletin co-produced by Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and the Economics and Foreign Policy Forum, Istanbul [Meanwhile CEPS seems to be a very active think-tank and it got...
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November 10, 2005
Ataturk at a new-year ball (1929) Flags lower, sirens blast across Turkey in memory of Ataturk As occurs every November 10, across Turkey, the death of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk is remembered today, with the lowering of flags, and the...
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04:19 PM
European Journalism Center has a comprehensive page for the French mediascape authored by Pieter van den Blink, Paris based correspondent for Trouw and Radio 1. Thanks to Gulen Kurt, who sent me the link, you can click here to see...
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November 08, 2005
[From European Journalism Center] While newspapers and even TV channels aimed at foreigners in German are common these days, minority communities are finding more interactive ways to communicate with one another, through web portals. ....... Turks in Germany can...
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November 06, 2005
In its first five years of operation, European Stability Initiative has produced reports related to South Eastern Europe. ESI officials state that advice was sought regularly by a range of policy makers across the region. Its latest report directly...
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November 05, 2005
European Space Agency publishes cool satellite images in its web site and here is how Istanbul is described under this image [this is a reduced size from the original that can be found in the website]:...
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Bogazici University website provides a valuable source on Turkish literature to the English speaking world. For instance, three poems of recently deceased Attila Ilhan in English can be found at Contemporary Turkish Literature Project Site......
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November 03, 2005
Center for European Studies at Istanbul Bilgi University, directed by Prof. Ayhan Kaya and that includes many significant scholars and practitioners, releases a monthly bulletin. The Center has published three issues so far and they can be found at its...
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November 02, 2005
Mr. Gul is a very calm and respected person in Turkish politics. However, I see him increasingly nervous recently. Abdullah Gul calls Belgian decision "unfortunate" Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul has reacted to Belgium's refusal to try terror suspect Fehriye...
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On 24 October 2005, Bruegel published the first issue of its Policy Brief series: “Globalisation and the Reform of European Social Models” by André Sapir. This brief can found here Bruegel Institute is a Brussels-based think tank whose aim is...
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October 30, 2005
Turkish Policy Quarterly, a journal produced under the editorial sponsorship of ARI Movement, devoted its last issue (Fall 2005) to Turkey-EU relations. Some of the authors such as Olli Rehn, EU Commissioner for Enlargement, or Yalim Eralp, a retired...
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