Sunday, February 5, 2012

Newsfeed-February 5

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"Usual Suspects" Educated About Potential Arrest
Progressive Lawyers Association is organizing a new seminar to educate all 'usual suspects' about their rights. Read more via GIT - North America.

"We are allowed to sing, but only the songs the government likes to hear"
Constanze Letsch of Guardian writes about the silenced Kurdish storytellers, who recently started singing again in Diyarbakır. Read more via GIT - North America.

"Turkey's Crackdown on the Press recalls Military’s Tactics"

Barın Kayaoğlu evaluates recent curtailments of press freedom in Turkey in his article AKP and “Back to the Future” Turkish-Style. Read more via GIT - North America.

400-year sentence for 30 students!

Prosecutors want 400-year in total for 30 students for charges including attending the May Day. Read more on GIT - North America.

Writer Murat Uyurkulak on love, homophobia, misogny and the society of denial
Read more on GIT - North America.