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New Delhi [India], Dec 20 (ANI): Describing the military offensive launched by Turkey as an attempt to divert public attention after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling party suffered a setback in this year's municipal elections, M Behzad Fatmi, a Turkish political writer and commentator, has said that the operation helped the government to silence rising voices of the opposition parties in the country.In an e-mail interview to ANI on Friday, Fatmi said that prominent Justice and Development (AKP) leaders like Ali Babacan and Ahmet Davutoglu, who were once Erdogan allies, decided to break away from the party and form their own parties to challenge the Erdogan regime.Fatmi explained how prior to the military offensive, Erdogan's hold over Turkey's politics had dwindled significantly, as was evident from the ruling party's loss in major cities including in Istanbul -- a city where Erdogan had served as a Mayor in the 1990s prior to occupying the top post of the country and had described the seat as the key to winning Turkish elections."Launching an offensive in Syria helped the Erdogan regime to silence rising opposition voices in the country. The ruling AKP party had just lost major cities like Istanbul and Ankara in the municipal elections, giving the opposition parties a reason to be assertive for the first time since the AKP had come to power more than fifteen years ago. With his immense popularity among both the conservative and liberal voters, the new Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was presenting an unprecedented challenge to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan," he said."Moreover, prominent faces from within the AKP party like Abdullah Gul, Ali Babacan and Ahmet Davutoglu were preparing to form parties of their own to challenge the ruling party. This offensive effectively diverted public attention from all these debates and development," he added."The AKP's hold over Turkey's politics has certainly reduced significantly. In a poll conducted before the municipal elections, it was found that the AKP's vote share had come down to 36 per cent. In the words of Erdogan himself -- 'those who win Istanbul, win Turkey', which also means that who lose Istanbul, lose Turkey," Fatmi said.On October 9, Turkey had launched its unilateral military operation in north-east Syria to remove Kurdish-led forces from the border area. The move came days after the US announced it was withdrawing its troops from the region, leaving the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), without American military support.Several countries, including India, had condemned Turkey's operation in Syria, a war-ravaged country. New Delhi said that Ankara's actions can undermine "stability in the region" and has the potential for causing humanitarian and civilian distress. (ANI)

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Recep Tayyip Erdogan mentioned that he is open to the idea of Larkin playing for the Turkish National Team.

By Eurohoops team / info@eurohoops.net

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan mentioned during a TV interview that he is open to giving Shane Larkin a Turkish passport so the player can join the national team.

We will do what we need to do about it. We would like to see such a successful basketball player in our national team. Larkin can take our national team to very good results, commented Erdogan.

Larkin himself had expressed his interest to join the Turkish national team in the future, with Efes coach Ergin Ataman also supporting the idea of Larkin playing for the national team.

National team coach Ufuk Sarica also addressed the matter and the possible difficulties of the player getting a Turkish passport, however, it seems that after Erdogans comment the paperwork can be a formality.

It will remain to be seen if he finally gets to follow the path of fellow American-born and naturalized Turkish guards, like Scottie Wilbekin and Bobby Dixon. Larkin reacted with the following tweet.

It has to be noted, of course, that under FIBA rules only one naturalized player can be used in the final roster of any national team.

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OpEds President Erdogan reasserts authority in Turkey

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The controversy over awarding the Nobel Prize for Literature to the Austrian writer Peter Handke has not subsided. The spokesman for the Turkish presidency, Ibrahim Kalin, has approached the Nobel Prize committee and asked that that the writer, guilty of siding with the Serbs during the Balkan war, be deniedthe prize:

The Nobel Prize to Handke is a shameful decision that must be annulled.

Turkey has taken the lead ofa number of Muslim countries that have protested aboutHandke. The Turkish ambassador to Sweden, Hakki Emre Yunt, told the Turkish broadcaster Hurriyet that he will not attend the ceremony, while President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the Swedish Academy had already given the Nobel Prize to a Turkish terrorist, areference to the writer Orhan Pamuk (the only other Turkish Nobel Prize winner, the biochemist Aziz Sancar, is not known to be a government critic).

Turkey, at the same time, prevented one of its most famous writers, Ahmet Altan, from flying to Munich to receive the Geschwister-Scholl prize, which bears the names of the heads of the White Rose who were executed by the Nazis. In September 2016, Altan, founder of the now banned Taraf newspaper, was arrested on charges of taking part in the attempted coup against Erdogan. On February 16, 2018, the writer was sentenced to life imprisonment for spreading a subliminal message during a television program the day before the coup.

You can imprison me but you can't keep me here. Because, like all writers, I can easily cross your walls, Altan wrote in I Will Never See the World Again, the book written in his cell in Silivri's maximum security prison. Last November 4, Altan was released on the condition that he reported regularly to the police. A few days ago, he suffered a new arrest.

Turkish writer and Nobel Prize winner Pamuk, who in 2005 was tried in Istanbul and publicly attacked yesterday by Erdogan, told the Sddeutsche Zeitung: As long as systematic injustices against Altan continue and we remain silent, it will be shameful for us and our humanity.

Altan is not the only Turkish writer to have ended up in jail.

The poet Nedim Trfent has been in jail for 1,250 days, guilty of writing about human rights violations in Kurdistan.

Another famous novelist, Asli Erdogan, was in prison when in Germany she was awarded the Peace Prize named after Erich Maria Remarque in the German city of Osnabrck.

Someone should explain to Erdogan that the border, first of all moral and cultural, between Europe and Turkey is still drawn on the Bosphorus.The writer Sevan Nisanyan was sentenced to thirteen months for irony on the Prophet Mohammed.

And at Erdogan's request, Interpol arrested another Turkish writer on holiday in Spain, Dogan Akhanli, guilty of having set his novel Kiyamet Gunu Yargiclari (The Judges of the Last Judgment) during the Armenian genocide.

Now Turkey would like to see Handke to be deprived of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Someone should explain to Erdogan that the border, first of all moral and cultural, between Europe and Turkey is still drawn on the Bosphorus. And it should remain there.

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All major social networks are financed by advertising and thus free to users who trade access to their data for cat videos and sometimes questionable news content. Wikipedia co-founder and internet entrepreneur Jimmy Wales wants to change that. He is currently rolling out his donation-based "news focused social network" WT.Social to people interested in high-quality journalism and productive discussions.

There are a few things that set WT.Social apart from its competitors. First off, it's completely independent from venture capitalists and other beneficiaries (including Wikipedia), running only on Wales' own investments. The network is also not interested in your data and doesn't show you any ads. If you want to, you can support it with donations pre-set to $13 a month or $100 a year (or 12/90 and 10/80). Wales says he doesn't expect his product to be profitable, though he thinks it could be sustainable when he maintains the current "barebones" staff of five, including himself.

The homepage/frontpage.

Once you've signed up for the service, you get access to what looks like a hybrid between Facebook, Reddit, and Wikipedia. You can join or create so-called subwikis tailored to your interest, covering every conceivable topic, ranging from "Fighting Misinformation" and "Long Reads" over "Computers: Windows, Apple, and Linux" all the way to "Dank Memes." It looks like an upvote/downvote system currently determines in which order content is shown in your front page feed, though in a Reddit Ask-me-anything, Jimmy Wales says he and his team are "going to experiment" what solution works best. Note that in contrast the the network's spiritual predecessor WikiTribune, you'll find barely any original content on WT.Social itself; it's mainly an aggregator and crowd-based curator for existing news websites.

Onboarding: Choose your favorite subwikis.

What really sets WT.Social apart from Facebook and Reddit is the ability to edit any post, no matter if you published it yourself or not. Just like on Wikipedia, a transparent history of edits shows who contributed which changes, so authorship becomes fluid. WT.Social hopes its users will catch misinformation early and edit posts accordingly, in addition to standard options to report spammers and vandalism. The team is also on-boarding more administrators and volunteer developers to cope with its sudden growth.

An overwhelming overview of all the changes on the website.

Other than that, the network feels pretty barebones, but that might be precisely how it's supposed to be. The grey-and-beige interface doesn't scream "attention" all over, and it looks like no autoplaying videos are trying to suck you in. The lack of bright eye-candy ads certainly makes browsing it a much more intentional and focused experience, too.

The question remains whether WT.Social is going to be able to scale up to properly compete with Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and the like. The network effect is real, and it's going to be hard to convince people to switch, especially since WT.Social seems to be pretty niche with its focus on high-quality journalism. Then again, Wikipedia's donation-based model still works great in this day and age, so I wouldn't write off Wales' network too fast.

Profile page.

If you're interested, you can join a waiting list to get in on the service. The team had to resort to this measure so it could deal with sudden loads of sign-ups following press coverage (yes, I see the irony here). You can also choose to pay the donation fee right away if you want to skip. Mobile apps don't exist at the moment, but that's on the roadmap as the network grows.

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The Gateway Pundit and Epoch Times Banned by Wikipedia Over Truthful Reporting on Ukraine and Russia Hoax | 20 Dec 2019 | Breitbart News today reported the Wikipedia blacklists now include The Epoch Times and The Gateway Pundit for our truthful reporting on Russiagate. China critics the Epoch Times and conservative outlet the Gateway Pundit have been banned from use as reliable sources on Wikipedia in the latest cases of news outlets that support President Trump being banned from the online encyclopedia... Gateway Pundits ban came from a proposal soon after the proposed ban for Epoch Times. The ban proposal came in response to editor "BullRangifer" removing a 2017 piece criticizing media silence on Ukraine colluding with Democrats to influence the 2016 election. The article was originally added to frame Gateway Pundit as "fueling conspiracy theories" related to the impeachment inquiry over Trump's call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. In fact, the piece correctly noted Politico's coverage of DNC contractor Alexandra Chalupa soliciting Ukrainian interference and then-Democratic minority leader of the House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiffexpressing concerns about the reported interference.

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