In Egypt, just speaking to Brotherhood is a risk for foreign reporters | Reuters
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In Egypt, just speaking to Brotherhood is a risk for foreign reporters | Reuters
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Turkish police fire tear gas on Istanbul protesters | Reuters
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/18/us-turkey-protests-idUSBREA0H0G720140118
Police fired tear gas on Saturday to disperse hundreds of protesters in Istanbul’s central Taksim Square demonstrating mainly against a government bill that would increase controls over the #Internet.
Après les annonces d’Obama ▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/01/rating-obamas-nsa-reform-plan-eff-scorecard-explained, à l’approche du symbolique ►https://thedaywefightback.org (11 février), alors que certains aimeraient bien voir #Snowden prendre une balle ▻http://www.slate.fr/monde/82425/tuer-edward-snowden-balle-tete-nsa-prism-obama-assassinat, des manifestations pratiques contre la #surveillance et la #censure en #Turquie.
Censure d’Internet : affrontements à Ankara et Istanbul – 18 janvier 2014 – avec vidéos
▻http://berthoalain.com/2014/01/20/censure-dinternet-affrontements-a-ankara-et-istanbul-18-janvier-2014-av
▻http://berthoalain.com/2014/02/09/controle-dinternet-affrontements-a-istanbul-8-fevrier-2014 nouveaux affrontements du 8 février
Exclusive: With Muslim Brotherhood crushed, Egypt sets sights on Hamas | Reuters
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/14/us-egypt-gaza-idUSBREA0D09D20140114
Since it seized power in Egypt last summer, Egypt’s military has squeezed Gaza’s economy by destroying most of the 1,200 tunnels used to smuggle food, cars and weapons to the coastal enclave, which is under an Israeli blockade.
Now Cairo is becoming even more ambitious in its drive to eradicate what it says are militant organizations that threaten its national security.
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“Gaza is next,” said one senior security official, who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue. “We cannot get liberated from the terrorism of the Brotherhood in Egypt without ending it in Gaza, which lies on our borders.”
INSIGHT-Earth is gold: graft probe turns eyes to Turkey building boom
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/08/turkey-corruption-construction-idUSL6N0KG07720140108
The government’s critics say the legal framework surrounding the construction sector, a key driver of the economy, has been repeatedly watered down in recent years, creating loopholes that developers can exploit for profit.
Turkey’s Public Tender Act has been amended 31 times since the AK Party came to power, according to Oya Ozarslan, head of the local chapter of anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International.
The changes put ever more sectors outside its scope, including urban development projects and a significant proportion of TOKI’s activity building housing.
“This law has become like a Swiss cheese,” Ozarslan said, estimating that close to half of government procurement fell outside the scope of the act.
“We know TOKI makes a lot of money but how? It should be transparent and it should be open to audit.”
TOKI had no immediate comment.
Under the motto “Building Turkey of the Future”, it is the government’s main urban development arm, charged with transforming shanty towns and developing mass housing projects, much of it through revenue-sharing deals with private companies.
An investigation from 2004 by the prime ministry’s own audit board, seen by Reuters, said TOKI’s revenue-sharing model was not fully transparent and public assets had been sold at below fair value. The opposition CHP accused the ruling AK Party in a 2011 report of using TOKI to transfer state property to firms close to the government, which AK denies.
“TOKI is not just building housing and hospitals, it is selling government land,” said Aykut Erdogdu, a CHP member of parliament who compiled the opposition party’s dossier. “We don’t know how they sell it, what the real value is.”