The right of protest in Turkey

Observer of the Near East

One think is sure! After the “coup d’état” in 2015, the Don Quixote imaginary Neo-Sultan of the New Ottoman Empire, Mr Erdogan seized all powers in his hand and made the army of the country his puppet.

People cannot protest peacefully in the country anymore. Even the LGBT gay pride was not authorized and people got arrested.

Historically, In 1858 the Ottoman Empire—the predecessor of the modern-day Republic of Turkey— adopted a new penal code, which no longer contained any explicit articles criminalizing homosexuality. The Ottoman Penal Code of 1858 was heavily influenced by the Napoleonic Code, as part of wider reforms during the Tanzimat period. LGBT people have had the right to seek asylum in Turkey under the Geneva Convention since 1951, but same-sex couples are not given the same legal protections available to heterosexual couples. Transgender people have been allowed to change their legal gender since 1988…

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Pećina Banja Stijena, Republika Srpska, BiH – Banja Stijena Cave, Republika Srpska, BiH

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Ulaz u pećinu nalazi se na lijevoj strani kanjona rijeke Prače, ispod sela Banja Stijena, po kome i nosi naziv. Lokalno stanovništvo je naziva i Mračna pećina. Ulaz se nalazi na oko 590 metara apsolutne visine, dvadesetak metara iznad korita rijeke Prače. Pećina je postala poznata početkom dvadesetog vijeka kada je Austrougarska započela gradnju uskotračne pruge kroz kanjon Prače. Prvi podaci o pećini u literaturi potiču od entomoloških istraživanja Viktora Afelbeka. Primjerke na obradu dobio je od austrijskog oficira Oto Kaula, koje je prikupio 1907. godine, za vrijeme posjeta pećini. U literaturi pećina se spominje i kao pećina koju su prije Prvog svjetskog rata posjećivali turisti (Daneš, J. 1921). Prva speleološka istraživanja Banje Stijene preduzeo je Čeh Jirži Daneš, koji je bio u službi u austrougarskoj vojsci. Istraživanja je preduzeo iz vojnih razloga, jer se u pećinama Bosne i Hercegovine tragalo za koštanim ostacima od kojih je Austrija…

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« Money does not protect us … it does not create our joy. For *white people, it is different. »

Barbara Crane Navarro

Yanomami community dwelling, Alto Orinoco, Amazonas, Venezuela – photo: Barbara Crane Navarro

«Yanomami shamans do not work for money the way white people’s doctors do. They simply work so that the sky and forest remain in place, so that we can hunt, plant our gardens, and live in good health. Our ancients did not know of money. … Money does not protect us … it does not create our joy. For white people, it is different. They do not know how to dream with the spirits the way we do. They prefer to ignore that the shamans’ work is to protect the earth, as much for us and our children as for them and theirs.»

  • Yanomami spokesman and shaman Davi Kopenawa

*The Yanomami shaman being quoted is referring to the destruction to the rainforest and indigenous lives since the “conquest of the Americas” by white (non-native) Europeans which began the…

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Relatório Sobre Criminalização E Assédio De Lideranças Indígenas No Brasil- Informe Sobre Criminalización Y Acoso A Líderes Indígenas En Brasil — The Owl Criminology

Barbara Crane Navarro

Relatório Sobre Criminalização E Assédio De Lideranças Indígenas No Brasil https://indigenousrightsinternational.org/es/recursos/publicaciones/pt-uma-anatomia-das-praticas-de-silenciamento-indigena-relatorio-sobre-criminalizacao-e-assedio-de-liderancas-indigenas-no-brasil Informe Sobre Criminalización Y Acoso A Líderes Indígenas En Brasilhttps://indigenousrightsinternational.org/es/recursos/publicaciones/analisis-de-las-practicas-de-silenciamiento-indigena-informe-sobre-criminalizacion-y-acoso-a-lideres-indigenas-en-brasil

Relatório Sobre Criminalização E Assédio De Lideranças Indígenas No Brasil- Informe Sobre Criminalización Y Acoso A Líderes Indígenas En Brasil — The Owl Criminology

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Why it is Good for Children to be Learning in Creative ways and become Aware of the Need for Environmental Care

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When children grow up with an awareness of how important it is to protect the environment

They will become teenagers and adults who will quickly understand why they should do things in a new way and make a commitment

They will become entrepreneurs as the number of jobs that are not taken by robots will be few and they will need to open Green businesses

They will also plant trees and do all they can to pollute the planet less

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Knowing all about the circular economy and zero waste will be their plan

And they will always understand how to apply solutions and believe that they can

They won’t be like those who can’t get jobs so they go out and rob

They will be thinking creatively as they develop new skills and create new jobs

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Reducing, reusing…

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Climate Change is Here

The Weekly Sift

https://theweek.com/science/1002139/melting-space-needle

When it’s 116 in Portland and 108 in Seattle, something is wrong.


For a long time, you could only see global warming if you knew what you were looking for. It wasn’t something that announced itself in your everyday experience.

Wherever you might live, it continued to be warmer in the day and cooler at night, hotter in summer and colder in winter — the same as it ever was. Whether summers had been hotter or winters colder years ago was a topic for old people’s boring stories about the Blizzard of ’78 or the Drought of ’54.

You had to be a statistician — or trust statisticians whose work you couldn’t check — to get any coherent view of the trends in global temperature. Think of the millions of measurements, and thousands of adjustments to those measurements, necessary to produce a graph like the one below

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After pressuring telecom firms, Myanmar’s junta bans executives from leaving | RNZ News

Senior foreign executives of major telecommunications firms in Myanmar have been told by the junta that they must not leave the country without permission, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said.
— Read on www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/446230/after-pressuring-telecom-firms-myanmar-s-junta-bans-executives-from-leaving