Spitfire List | Who and/or What is Behind the Fetullah Gulen Organization? COMMENT: In FTR #739, we took a brief look at the powerful international organization of the Pennsylvania-based Turkish Muslim cleric and author Fetullah Gulen. Being investigated by the FBI and excoriated by numerous sources for Machiavellian gambits to destroy political opponents, the organization has a significant presence in 80 countries, including sponsorship of charter schools here in the United States. Suspicions and reservations about the Gulen organization include: fears in Central Asian republics that the group is Islamist and/or pan-Turkic in nature; convictions among journalists like the estimable Sibel Edmonds and intelligence and military officers in Turkey and elsewhere that the Gulenists are fronting for CIA agents; that the Gulenist cadre engage as a matter of course in illegal acts to destroy their opponents, including numerous incidents of forgery and perjury, as well as libel and propaganda. . . . . . . . .
peoplemovin - A visualization of migration flows World Population: 6,853,328,460 Migrants in the world: 215,738,321 Almost 216 million people, or 3.15% of the world population, live outside their countries. Click on a country box to know more about migration flow to/from that country. About peoplemovin peoplemovin shows the flows of migrants based on the last data available on International Migrant Stock. International migrant stock is the number of people born in a country other than that in which they live. The data are presented as a slopegraph that shows the connections between countries. Refugees and Asylum Refugees and asylum seekers made up 16.3 million, or 8%, of international migrants in 2010. Data Sources The main source of data for this visualization is the Bilateral Migration Matrix from the Worldbank website. All the presented data are the latest available as of 2010. Migration Data Bilateral Migration and Remittances 2010The World Bank Open Data Ratha, Dilip K., and William Shaw (2006). Refugees and Asylum World Population Data
Turkey's Night of the Firebombs Across Turkey, coordinated attacks took place on 8 September against offices of the HDP—the People's Democratic Party. The HDP is not, strictly speaking, a Kurdish party—although that is how it is often described in the media. It was formed in 2012 when a group of left-leaning political organizations—all with firm pro-Kurdish views—decided to form an electoral coalition. The similarity with Greece's Syriza would not be unkind. The HDP holds fairly conventional leftist positions—against nuclear power, for LGBT rights, against discrimination of minorities, for women's equality. So why have its offices from Ankara and elsewhere been rampaged and firebombed? The obvious culprit—obvious, because they arrived with flags—were the Grey Wolves of the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). It is by now clear that other forces are lined up against the HDP, trying once more to link this capacious formation to the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK). Where does the HDP come into all this?
7 signs Japan has become a 'demographic time bomb' | The Independent A Japanese soccer fan wipes her tears as Japan loses their 2014 World Cup soccer match against Colombia, at a public viewing event in Tokyo.Reuters/Issei Kato Japan is dealing with what economists call a "demographic time bomb." Through a vicious cycle of low fertility and low consumer spending, the country's economy has gradually shrunk over the last 25 years. People are living longer, and they're heaping greater social-security costs onto younger generations who aren't having kids to replace them — thereby furthering the cycle. Here are some of the most visible signs in daily life that the time bomb is ticking. Adult diapers outsell baby diapers. REUTERS/Yuya Shino Ever since 2011, sales of adult diapers in Japan have outpaced those of baby diapers. The trend reflects just how big the cohort of senior citizens is: People over 65 make up a larger demographic than any other in Japan. That proportion is up 3.7 percentage points from six years ago. 2016 marked a 117-year low for fertility.
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Turchia: la sinistra kurda e ambientalista blocca la svolta autoritaria di Erdoğan L’HDP supera la soglia di sbarramento, gli islamisti costretti a un’alleanza con i Lupi Grigi? [8 giugno 2015] In Turchia non sono bastati gli attentati e i brogli denunciati in molte circoscrizioni per fermare l’avanzata della sinistra, e il presidente Recep Tayyip Erdoğan oggi non ha più la maggioranza assoluta conquistata dal suo Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (AKP – Partito per la Giustizia e lo Sviluppo) 13 anni fa, e mai persa fino ad ora. Il problema per Erdoğan è che nemmeno i Lupi Grigi dell’MHP – arrivati terzi con il 16,5% – vogliono quella Repubblica super-presidenziale che l’uomo forte della Turchia ha cercato di imporre al suo Paese con queste elezioni. Non a caso a festeggiare in piazza a Istanbul e Ankara è soprattutto la sinistra, sotto le bandiere multicolori dell’HDP che ricordano molto quelle della greca Siryza o quelle dei combattenti progressisti kurdi del Rojava in Siria. Probabilmente ha ragione Demirtas quando dice che il successo dell’HDP «è un dono per la Turchia.
World Population Clock: 7.5 Billion People (2017) World Population: Past, Present, and Future (move and expand the bar at the bottom of the chart to navigate through time) The chart above illustrates how world population has changed throughout history. View the full tabulated data. At the dawn of agriculture, about 8000 B.C., the population of the world was approximately 5 million. Over the 8,000-year period up to 1 A.D. it grew to 200 million (some estimate 300 million or even 600, suggesting how imprecise population estimates of early historical periods can be), with a growth rate of under 0.05% per year. A tremendous change occurred with the industrial revolution: whereas it had taken all of human history until around 1800 for world population to reach one billion, the second billion was achieved in only 130 years (1930), the third billion in 30 years (1960), the fourth billion in 15 years (1974), and the fifth billion in only 13 years (1987). Wonder how big was the world's population when you were born? Growth Rate 10 Billion (2055)
TURQUIE EN BREF - PKK, Droits de l'homme, Groupe Dogan, Fashion week et lutte anti-drogue DROITS DE L'HOMME - La Turquie doit supprimer la case "Religion" des C.I. nationales La Cour européenne des droits de l'Homme a demandé mardi à la Turquie de supprimer la case "religion" des cartes d'identité nationales, car cette mention est contraire à la liberté de religion qui comporte celle de manifester ou non ses croyances."Le simple fait d'être porteur d'une carte d'identité comportant une case +religion+ (même) laissée vide revient pour l'intéressé à divulguer contre son gré une information relative à un aspect de sa religion ou de ses convictions profondes", juge la Cour européenne dans un arrêt rendu mardi à Strasbourg (source: AFP). La Cour européenne des droits de l'Homme avait été saisie par un habitant d'Izmir, de religion alevie qui n'avait pas été autorisé à remplacer la mention "islam" par la mention "alévie" sur sa carte d'identité. MEDIA - Le groupe Dogan remporte une bataille Meg Ryan, invitée d'honneur de la Istanbul Fashion Week (source IFW)
Crossing the Mediterranean Sea by Boat Mapping and Documenting Migratory Journeys and Experiences NEWS: The project final report was launched in May 2017 – please click here or on the image to view the report ONLINE INTERACTIVE MAP: Please click here or on the image to view some of the journeys and experiences shared by our research participants Despite the European Union’s announcement of A European Agenda on Migration in May 2015, precarious forms of migration culminating in fatalities at sea continue at record levels. Crossing the Mediterranean Sea by Boat is an international project comprised of researchers at the University of Warwick, University of Malta, and the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP, Athens). Crossing the Mediterranean Sea by Boat is funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council as part of the Mediterranean Migration Research Programme, and runs from September 2015 – August 2018. The project report and online interactive map are now available.
In the new cold war, the stakes for Turkey are heating up Russia’s grand foray into the Syrian civil war has analysts and policymakers scrambling to make sense of Vladimir Putin’s long-term plans. Let’s be clear, Moscow is securing Bashar Al Assad’s regime, which has been steadily losing territory and troops over the past year. The timing of Russia’s air attack on rebel targets also suggests that Russia is diverting attention from the continuing crisis in eastern Ukraine and demonstrating its fresh foreign policy – one that pits Russian interests against those of the United States. For Russia and the United States, Syria is now a proxy battleground. Both countries' goals have little to do with the fate of Syria as a single state, the well-being of the Syrian people (Russia has refused to join any programme to help Syrian refugees) or the equitable resolution of the conflict. The pressing question is how US and Russian allies involved in Syria will react to this unavoidable reality. Read more about Russia in Syria: ■ Syria is a mess, Mr Obama.
The Racial Dot Map: One Dot Per Person for the Entire U.S. BESbswy Turchia: kamikaze "fratello autore strage Suruc". Isis dietro l'attentato (AGI) - Ankara, 11 ott. - L'attentato di Ankara, che sabato ha causato la peggiore strage nella storia della Turchia con 128 vittime e oltre 500 feriti, e' stato compiuto da due kamikaze, entrambi uomini: lo ha riferito il capo dell'opposizione, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, dopo aver incontrato il premier turco, Ahmet Davutoglu. "Mi hanno dato informazioni sull'attentato: capirete che non posso dare dettagli", ha detto, incontrando i giornalisti subito dopo l'incontro. "Mi hanno detto che c'erano due kamikaze, entrambi uomini. Tuttavia, non hanno fatto i nomi di alcuna organizzazione", ha aggiunto nel corso di una conferenza stampa trasmessa n diretta dall'emittente CNNTrk. Migliaia di curdi in piazza contro Erdogan, polizia carica Secondo le autorita' turche, le relazioni del kamikaze di Suruc con l'Isis erano fuori di dubbio, per cui molti analisti turchi trovano un legame jihadista con i responsabili del massacro di Ankara.