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Thứ Sáu, 13 tháng 9, 2013

Galatasaray’s winless streak continues with 1-1 home draw against MP Antalya

Burak Yılmaz who scored Turkey's first goal against Romania during the week has missed many opportunities during tonight's game against MP Antalya. DHA photo
Defending Turkish championsGalatasaray obtained their third straight draw in four games tonight with a 1-1 result at home against Medical Park Antalyaspor, ahead of the much-awaited Champions League rendez-vous against Real Madrid on Tuesday.
 
After pulling off heroics with the national squad during the international break and reviving Turkey’s World Cup hopes, Coach Fatih Terim failed to end the Lions’ slow start to the season in front of their supporters. 
 
Deprived of star midfielders Weslej Sneijder and Selçuk İnan, both injured during the match with their national teams, Terim started the match with an unusual midfield tandem composed of Engin Baytar and Emre Çolak.  
 
The duel between Galatasaray’s cherished strikers, Didier Drogba and Burak Yılmaz, and former star forward Milan Baros, who moved to the Mediterranean side this summer, was highly anticipated.
 
But it was MP Antalya’s veteran Brazilian Tita who opened the score in the 20th minute, after he received a breakaway pass and flicked a right-footed shot past the helpless Eray İşçan, who was substituting Fernando Muslera during the game.
 
The Istanbul side increased its assaults after the half-time break as MP Antalya, yet to win a game this season, shifted into counter-attack mode. 
 
Still alive in the game thanks to Drogba and Yılmaz’s many missed opportunities, the Mediterraneans came close to doubling the score in the 74th minute with Lamine Diarra who had only İşçan to beat. 
 
However, Diarra’s lob went over the bar, paving the way for Galatasaray’s equalizer only a minute later, when Drogba converted to a goal Sabri Sarıoğlu's cross into the area. 
 
Galatasaray now totals six points while MP Antalya increases to three points in the standings. 
 
Leaders Beşiktaş will pay a visit to the dangerous Bursaspor on Sept. 15, while title-contenders Fenerbahçe will receive Rytan Babel’s Kasımpaşa on Sept. 16. 

Lazuri classes to begin in secondary schools in Turkey

A group of people are seen attending a Lazuri class in this file photo. Hürriyet photo
he Education Ministry has decided that the Laz language, spoken particularly in the Black Sea region, is to become an elective course in secondary schools as of the 2013 and 2014 education year. 

The Laz language will be offered as part of the “living languages and dialects” course introduced in secondary schools last year. The courses planned so far include three languages: Kurdish, Circassian and Abkhaz. 

Four elective languages 

Fifth grade students are able to elect one of these three languages and continue learning it for four years. 

The Education Ministry’s Board of Education and Discipline decided to include Lazuri as a part of the languages on offer. Students in secondary schools and religious İmam Hatip Secondary Schools are able to elect Lazuri as part of the “living languages and dialects” course starting from this term. 

The board has prepared a curriculum for the Lazuri classes, aiming to teach children how to use the language in their daily lives. 

The board used the Common European framework of reference for languages while preparing the language program. 

The courses will have listening, speaking, writing and reading sessions. Resources such as interviews, movies and cartoons in Lazuri will also be part of this course.

Amnesty International calls for the suspension of tear gas shipments to Turkey

Riot police fire tear gas during a protest in central Istanbul Sept. 10. REUTERS photo
Amnesty International has called on countries providing Turkish police with anti-riot equipments, including tear gas and armored vehicles to suspend all shipments on Sept. 12.
 
The call comes as fresh protests broke out in Istanbul, Ankara and other cities following the death of a demonstrator in the southern province of Hatay on Sept. 10, with the police resorting to tear gas and water cannon against the crowd.
 
“The Turkish police’s return to the abusive use of force in response to demonstrations underscores the need for all countries to suspend shipments of tear gas and other riot control projectile equipment and armored policing vehicles to Turkey, until steps are taken to prevent such deaths and injuries,” Amnesty International’s Turkey researcher Andrew Gardner has said. 
 
Countries such as the United States, Israel, Britain, China, Brazil, India, Belgium and South Korea are among those who have procured such materials, the association said.
 
It also quoted media reports indicating that new supplies of riot control equipment had been ordered.
 
“We’re calling on governments to take a stand and press Turkey to respect the right to peaceful protest and end the abusive use of force,” Gardner said. 
 
The death of Ahmet Atakan, with some reports claiming that he was hit by a tear gas canister, has sparked outrage, triggering fresh protests across Turkey. 
 
However, the authorities rejected those claims, arguing that Atakan died after falling from a building. 
 
Atakan is the sixth protester to be killed in anti-government protests in Turkey this summer, after the deaths of Abdullah Cömert (22), Ali İsmail Korkmaz (19), Ethem Sarısülük (26), Mehmet Ayvalıtaş (20) and Medeni Yıldırım (18). Police officer Mustafa Sarı also died after falling from a bridge while pursuing fleeing protesters in Adana. 

Kuwaiti gov’t to inspect Turkish building firms

The Kuwait Real Estate Summit, postponed to an undetermined date, was expected to host more than 500 Arab investors and 40 Turkish firms. DAILY NEWS photo, Hasan ALTINIŞIKThe Kuwait Real Estate Summit, slated to be organized by Turkish and Dubai-based companies on Sept. 17-18, has been postponed to an undetermined date. Given that some Turkish companies didn’t fulfill promises made, the Kuwaiti government has made the decision to investigate participating Turkish firms.

Turkish Inrema and Dubai-based AYN Group organized a real estate summit that was set to take place in Kuwait between Sept. 17 and Sept. 18. However, the Kuwaiti government has launched an investigation into the Turkish firms, which attended the expo in recent years, over the claims that they caused “house victims.” The government will request documents from the companies in order to question both their qualifications and reliability.

The sales made during expos between 2009 and 2011 damaged Turkey’s image, said Halit Demir, the chairman of Demir İnşaat, one of the companies planning to attend the event. “Kuwaiti people that made payments weren’t able to have their houses built on time. Three to five companies were the cause of this situation. While we were selling 10 houses to Kuwait a month, this fell to 1. We, as a Turkish construction business, have lost Kuwait,” he said. 

Demir also noted while some companies didn’t deliver the houses, some sold houses in suburban areas while misrepresenting them as being located in the city center.

‘Home-buyers couldn’t contact companies’

The companies that called for the suspension of bankruptcy in Turkey also made foreign customers abroad suffer, said İbrahim Babacan, the chairman of Babacan Yapı. He stated that they received complaints from Iraq and Dubai along the lines of, “We bought houses in Turkey but we can’t reach the company.” 

Babacan recommended that the Ministry of Environment and Urban Planning should develop a system to audit construction companies. He also said the organizing company said that the Kuwaiti government’s investigation would last one month. 

The expo was expected to host more than 500 Arab investors that represent around $100 million investment capital. The Turkish Economy Ministry had announced that they would finance half of the participation fee of US$25,000. Around 40 companies were expected to attend the event.

The Iconoclast

Capture d'écran de la dernière vidéo de propagande envoyée de Syrie par Denis Mamadou Cuspert.
Il y a trois semaines, Denis Mamadou Cuspert – plus connu sur la scène rap allemande sous le nom de Deso Dogg – envoyait sa dernière vidéo en provenance de Syrie. Visiblement heureux, jouant dans l'eau d'une cascade en habit de combat, Deso Dogg s'y faisait le chantre du djihad : "Notre devoir est d'aller à la guerre", psalmodie-t-il, loin des anciennes productions montrant le jeune Berlinois en colère.

Lundi 9 septembre, d'autres nouvelles de Deso Dogg parvenaient de Syrie. Non par l'intermédiaire d'une vidéo le mettant en scène en vedette du djihad international, mais par un simple communiqué du groupe salafiste djihadiste Millatu Ibrahim : Denis Mamadou Cuspert avait été blessé dans un raid aérien en Syrie, y apprenait-on.

Le djihadiste, qui a pris le nom d'Abou Talha Al-Almani ("Abou Talha l'Allemand") après son départ pour la Syrie, se cachait avec des combattants anti-régime dans une maison qui "a été touchée par un raid aérien et des bombardements d'hélicoptère". Le groupe Millatu Ibrahim ne donnait aucun détail sur la gravité des blessures, et ne précisait pas dans quelle région de Syrie Deso Dogg se trouvait.
Fils d'un père ghanéen et d'une mère allemande, Denis Mamadou Cuspert a grandi à Berlin, devenant vite un petit délinquant. A 15 ans, comme il le racontait en 2004 au journal berlinois B.Z., il dévalisait les touristes. Il a été emprisonné à plusieurs reprisespour coups et blessures et trafic de drogue. Vint ensuite le rap, et un premier album – L'Ange noir –, en 2006. Le dernier sortit en 2009.
DE DESO DOGG À ABOU MALEEQ
En 2010, Deso Dogg se convertit à l'islam, prenant le nom d'Abou Maleeq. Une vidéo publiée en février 2010 le montrait lors de sa rencontre avec Pierre Vogel, le prédicateur salafiste le plus connu d'Allemagne. Cuspert abandonnait alors le rap et se contentait de diffuser épisodiquement sur Internet des "nasheed" (des poèmes musulmans musicaux) dans lesquels il prônait le djihad et disait son admiration pour Oussama Ben Laden.
En 2011, Denis Mamadou Cuspert fonda avec l'Autrichien Mohamed Mamadou le groupe djihadiste Millatu Ibrahim, et fit circulerde la propagande islamiste sur Internet. En mai 2012, quand des salafistes et des membres de l'extrême droite se sont violemment affrontés dans les rues de Bonn et Solingen, en Rhénanie-du-Nord-Westphalie, Denis Mamadou Cuspert était considéré par le service du renseignement intérieur berlinois comme un "porte-parole incitant à la révolte".
La même annnée, après l'interdiction du Millatu Ibrahim, l'ancien rappeur quitta l'Allemagne pour rejoindre l'Egypte, et plus tard à la Syrie. Dans une vidéo publiée en septembre 2012, il menaça directement l'Allemagne en déclarant la République fédérale"terre de combat". Dans une autre vidéo, il exprimait son désir de "mourir sur le champ de bataille".
RADICALISATION EN LIGNE
L'Office fédéral de protection de la Constitution (service du renseignement intérieur) craint que la propagande de Denis Mamadou Cuspert puisse pousser d'autres jeunes à se radicaliser. Ses activités en ligne, notamment, provoquent l'inquiétude, d'autant que le personnage d'Abou Talha Al-Almani est, à l'image de la dernière vidéo envoyée de Syrie, largement mis en scène. Le service estime que "les idées salafistes diffusées virtuellement peuvent pousser à la radicalisation".
Cette évolution inquiète d'autant plus que le service du renseignement intérieur considère le salafisme comme un courant à la croissance particulièrement rapide en Allemagne. Selon les services de surveillance, le nombre de ses membres est passé de 3 800 en 2011 à 4 500 en 2012. Seule une minorité d'eux est considérée comme terroriste ou djihadiste, mais le service du renseignement intérieur juge le salafisme comme un "terrain favorable pour la radicalisation islamiste".

New English Review Taken Down by DDOS

As most readers already know, the New English Review was brought down by a Directed Denial of Service attack (DDOS) during the night. The attack may or may not have been connected with the AFDI rally against sharia, which featured New English Review writers among its speakers.
Rebecca Bynum, the editor of NER, just sent us this brief note:
For those of you who don’t know yet, after I gave my short speech in Manchester TN last night, New English Review was cyber-attacked and remains down. The attack took out the entire network of sites hosted by ICG Link. They are now moving us to our own private server and will try to get us back up and running as soon as possible. Here is Jerry Gordon’s write-up of the event and my remarks at the AFDI protest on WatchDog Wire, which was very heartening.
Some excerpts from the story at WatchDog Wire:
Our NER colleague Rebecca Bynum drove down yesterday evening from Nashville to speak at an AFDI protest rally with Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller outside the Manchester — Coffee County Conference Center. The protest rally was scheduled for 5:30 p.m. When she arrived at 5:00 p.m. 150 people were already present, some with posters that read, “Just say no! to Islam” and even a booth selling “Sharia for Non —Muslims”. By the time the program started at 6:30 p.m., the hall was filled to overflowing with an estimated 800 inside according to the local Police Chief. So the Fire Marshall ordered the hall closed.

[…]
While the audience was disruptive, Bynum told me they were prepared and knowledgeable about Islamic doctrine. One source told of military that came down from Fort Campbell, Kentucky especially to attend this event. Members of the contingent commented to one audience member, “We fought this in the sandbox against Sharia, and we came home to find that it is happening here and now.” Many in the audience were veterans and of a similar cast of mind.
US Attorney Killian and FBI Special Agent Moore told the audience that if you defame Islam and engage in hate speech towards Muslims that you will be prosecuted to the fullest. Killian gave a power point presentation on what constituted hate speech under US law. He read off a list of White Supremacist and extremist groups probably provided by the Southern Poverty Law Center as exemplars of who the government was on the lookout for. FBI Special Agent Moore told the audience they were endeavoring to protect Muslim children from hate. At one point he noted that after 9/11 the FBI even hired Muslims as translators to which someone in the audience cried out, “yeah, but you didn’t hire Jews!” Ms. Sabina Mohyuddin, the AMACTN organizer of this event actually told the booing crowd to “shut up and listen to me!” One audience member commented in an email “that was like throwing oil on the fire”.
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