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  • Istanbul Showcased at First-ever INN London 12-15 April – PR Newswire – The Sacramento Bee

    Istanbul Showcased at First-ever INN London 12-15 April – PR Newswire – The Sacramento Bee

    Istanbul Showcased at First-ever INN London 12-15 April

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    By INN London

    Published: Tuesday, Apr. 9, 2013 – 5:13 am

    LONDON, April 9, 2013 — /PRNewswire/ —

    Art, Architecture, Books, Design, Food, Fashion and New Media

    Victoria House, Bloomsbury, WC1B 4DA

    Tickets in advance (£5) from http://www.innlondon.org/event   or on the door (£10)

    The first-ever INN London, held on 12-15 April at Bloomsbury’s Victoria House over 22,000 square feet, will focus exclusively on Turkey’s cultural and business capital Istanbul. A showcase of Istanbul’s best contemporary art, design, food & fashion; INN will be the place to meet, have conversations, do business, shop, eat and be inspired.

    (Photo: https://prnewswire2-a.akamaihd.net/p/1893751/sp/189375100/thumbnail/entry_id/0_e6fphbld/def_height/400/def_width/400/version/100012/type/1 )

    Discover beautiful world-class products never seen before in London.   Be the first to explore cutting edge fashion by Zeynep Tosun & NIAN; enjoy Kahve Dunyasi’s fine coffee, delightful coffee Dragees and double roasted Pistachio Turkish Delight; immerse yourself in literature with Andrew Finkel’s interview with Elif Shafak, this year long-listed for The Women’s Prize for Fiction, on Sunday and in architecture with Emre Arolat on Saturday; explore Superpool’s city-scapes; eat luxury street food with chef Silvena Rowe; new painting, sculpture and video by Istanbul’s leading fine artists; experience the future of digital art and new media at Kurye Video and GRID, invest in Merve Kahraman’s amazing bunny chairs and Viking lamps, jewellery by Zekie and Dilara, and Dora Teymur’s hand made shoes: finally linger over evening Raki and Meze – true Istanbul style.

    What’s it about? INN London are curators of cities.  They will reveal what makes Istanbul unique in this exciting lifestyle & cultural experience which brings Istanbul’s leading architects, artists, designers, fashion designers, galleries & shops, as well as celebrity guest chef Silvena Rowe, to London and will include a programme of cultural talks and events, information on travelling in Turkey as well as the chance to purchase exclusive artist prints, Turkish books, magazines and products.

    How do I get a ticket? Purchase a ticket in advance (£5) from or at the door for £10.

    Any special talks to attend? There will be a curated programme of cultural talks and events held at the INN Conversation Bar Area, tickets for these special events will also be available at .

    Highlights include:

    Award-winning architect Emre Arolat INN conversation with Andrew Finkel – Saturday 13 April at 2.30pm:  (tickets £7 including entry to the exhibition)

    Author Elif Shafak, long-listed for The Women’s Prize for Fiction,INN conversation with Andrew Finkel – Sunday 14th April at 2.30pm: (tickets £7 including entry to the exhibition)

    UK/Turkey SME Business Breakfast – Monday  15th April at 9-11am: (tickets £10)

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    11th April

    9.30 – 10.30: Press Breakfast with Kit Malthouse, Deputy Mayor of London for Business and Enterprise and Jessica Hand, ex-HM Consul General Istanbul and Moscow, Director UKTI Turkey, acclaimed Chef Silvena Rowe and Curator Isabella Icoz

    10:30 – 15:30: Press and Trade: Preview & Open Day

    EDITORS’ NOTES:

    LISTINGS INFORMATION:

    Exhibition Dates 12-15 April

    Exhibition Opening Hours 12, 13, 15 April 2013: 11-7pm / Sunday 14 April 2013: 11-6pm

    Food & Drink Opening Hours 12-15 April: 12-9pm

    Address Victoria House, Bloomsbury, WC1B 4DA

    Website http://www.innlondon.org

    Admission Advance £5 from ; at the door £10

    NOTES TO EDITORS:

    Exhibitors:

    Galleries: Pi Artworks ( http://www.istanbul74.com) , Dirimart ), Gallery X-ist ), Merkur ) , Elipsis (http://www.elipsisgallery.com) ,  Sanatorium ) , artSumer (http://www.artsumer.com)  Cda Projects ) , Leila Heller Gallery (http://www.leilahellergallery.com) Suat Akdemir, ) Barbara and Zafer Baran (http://www.zb-baran.co.uk)

    Architects: Emre Arolat Architects ) , Superpool (http://www.superpool.org)

    Fashion: Dora Teymur ) , Dilara Findikoglu, Zeynep Tosun ) NIAN (nihanburuk,com) , Janucha ) Gul Agis, DBBBerdan, Tuvana )

    Product Design: Merve Kahraman (http://www.mervekahraman.com); Batya Kebudi ), Zeckie )

    Food: Kahve Dunyasi ) Silvena Rowe

    Sponsors:

    Event Partner: Turkish Culture and Tourism Office UK )

    Travel Partners: Pegasus Airlines ) and London Stansted Airport )

    Business Partners: London & Partners ) Beko )

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  • Pegasus is travel sponsor for INN London showcasing Istanbul

    Pegasus is travel sponsor for INN London showcasing Istanbul

    Pegasus Airlines, the easy way to fly, will be the travel sponsor for the first-ever INN London, held on 12-15 April 2013 which will focus exclusively on Turkey’s cultural capital of Istanbul.

    Running over four days this April, INN London will reveal what makes Istanbul unique, from its contemporary art and architecture, to its fashion, food, drink and cultural life. It will include a programme of cultural talks and events, information on travelling in Turkey as well as the chance to purchase Turkish products.

    INN London is suitable for prospective travellers, those with an interest in what’s new and upcoming in Istanbul and for people looking to set up business links. INN Istanbul will then go on tour with events in the Middle East, Far East and the Americas.

    Exhibitors at INN London will include galleries Pi Artworks, Dirimart, Gallery X-ist, Merkur, Elipsis, Sanatorium, artSumer and Cda Projects; architects Emre Arolat Architects and Superpool; fashion house and Dora Teymur; interior designers Iksel and Merve Kahraman; as well as guest celebrity chef Silvena Rowe producing her exciting take on Turkish street food.

    Senior Vice-President – Commerical for Pegasus, Guliz Ozturk, says: “Pegasus Airlines, which uses Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen as its principal hub for its 70 destinations in 28 countries, is delighted to be the travel sponsor for the first-ever INN London which will focus exclusively on this magical city. London is an important destination for Pegasus with its twice daily flights and connections via Istanbul onto 17 international destinations such as Dubai and Beirut and 25 destinations within Turkey. I’m sure INN London will be a successful and enjoyable event, marking a cultural link between London and Istanbul, as well as to Turkish culture generally, and provide the perfect excuse to visit Istanbul as soon as possible”.

    via Pegasus is travel sponsor for INN London showcasing Istanbul | News | Breaking Travel News.

  • Heating up in London Blue Monday Pop Up Hilton Resort

    Heating up in London Blue Monday Pop Up Hilton Resort

    Hilton Resort London
    Hilton Resort London

    Hotel chain Hilton brought their Hilton Urgent Vacation Care Centre to the banks of the River Thames today

    An event took place in London to help Britons build immunity to Vacationitis and Blue Monday, scientifically proven to be the most depressing day of the year for a range of reasons.

    Some folks braved the snowy weather and enjoyed a mini vacation with the event.

    Hilton Urgent Vacation Care Centre team built a pop-up Hilton Resot on the banks of the River Thames today to cure Vacationitis on a snowy Blue Monday.

    Two brave spirits run down the banks of the River Thames this morning in London. We created a pop up resort near Hilton London Tower Bridge to help Brits check their Vacationitis level and enjoy a mini vacation.

    Sand meets snow at our pop up Hilton Resort this morning in London. With a new study showing that Britons are spending less vacation time actually relaxing we’re encouraging everyone to check their Vacationitis level at Hilton London Tower Bridge.These three folks look like they’ve cured their Vacationitis. We took to the banks of the River Thames in London today to encourage Britons to prioritize vacation time.

    latest leisure study shows working Britons on average take only 8 days off a year (out of an average possible 24) and more than half haven’t had a vacation in a year. With a Vacationitis outbreak imminent, we built a pop-up resort today and urged Londoners to take a mini break during the work day.

     

     

     

    Avrupa Times

  • Moving Image

    Moving Image

    Moving Image London 2012

    Contemporary Video Art Fair
    October 11 – 14, 2012 London

    Nezaket Ekici, solo exhibition double bind – Performance Installation : “Atropos”, 2006. Courtesy of the artist, Pi Artworks Istanbul and DNA Gallery, Berlin. photo by Stefan Erhard.

    Participating Artists / Presented by galleries and non-profit institutions (as of September 18, 2012)

    Sama Alshaibi / Selma Feriani Gallery (London)

    Burak Arikan / Analix Forever (Geneva, Switzerland)

    Alessandro Balteo Yazbeck & Media Farzin / Green Art Gallery (Dubai, UAE)

    Janet Biggs / Winkleman Gallery (New York, NY)

    Carlos Bunga / Galería Elba Benítez (Madrid, Spain)

    Peter Campus / Cristin Tierney Gallery (New York, NY)

    Nicole Cohen / Morgan Lehman Gallery (New York, NY)

    Amanda Coogan / Kevin Kavanagh Gallery (Dublin, Ireland)

    Jen DeNike / Anat Ebgi (Los Angeles, CA)

    Ronald Duarte / Progetti (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

    Nezaket Ekici / Pi Artworks (Istanbul, Turkey)

    Kasearu Flo / Temnikova & Kasela Gallery (Tallin, Estonia)

    Rico Gatson / Ronald Feldman Fine Arts (New York, NY)

    Marisa Gonzalez / Galerie Vanguardia (Bilbao, Spain)

    Brent Green & Chris Doyle / Andrew Edlin Gallery (New York, NY)

    Katharina Gruzei / Charim Galerie (Vienna, Austria)

    Micah Harbon / Moving Image Presents (London)

    Gary Hill / DNA (Berlin, Germany)

    Francesco Jodice / Galleria Michela Rizzo (Venice, Italy)

    Anssi Kasitonni / AV-arkki (Helsinki, Finland)

    Joan Leandre / [DAM] Berlin | Cologne (Berlin, Germany)

    Ryan McNamara / Elizabeth Dee (New York, NY)

    Aytegin Muratbek Uulu / ArtEast (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan)

    Luke Murphy / CANADA (New York, NY)

    Michael Nyman / Myriam Blundell_Projects (London)

    Itziar Okariz / Galería Moisés Pérez de Albéniz (Pamplona, Spain)

    Oval Office / Future Gallery (Berlin, Germany)

    Daniel Phillips / DODGEgallery (New York, NY)

    Carolee Schneemann / P·P·O·W (New York, NY)

    Roman Signer / STAMPA (Basel, Switzerland)

    Kate Steciw / toomer labzda (New York, NY)

    Leslie Thornton / Winkleman Gallery (New York, NY)

    Jaan Toomik / Temnikova & Kasela Gallery (Tallin, Estonia)

    Mariana Vassileva / DNA (Berlin, Germany)

    John Wood & Paul Harrison / Carroll / Fletcher (London)

    via Moving Image.

  • The pursuit of Julian Assange is an assault on freedom and a mockery of journalism

    The pursuit of Julian Assange is an assault on freedom and a mockery of journalism

    assangeThe British government’s threat to invade the Ecuadorean embassy in London and seize Julian Assange is of historic significance. David Cameron, the former PR man to a television industry huckster and arms salesman to sheikdoms, is well placed to dishonour international conventions that have protected Britons in places of upheaval. Just as Tony Blair’s invasion of Iraq led directly to the acts of terrorism in London on 7 July 2005, so Cameron and Foreign Secretary William Hague have compromised the safety of British representatives across the world.
    Threatening to abuse a law designed to expel murderers from foreign embassies, while defaming an innocent man as an “alleged criminal”, Hague has made a laughing stock of Britain across the world, though this view is mostly suppressed in Britain. The same brave news­papers and broadcasters that have supported Britain’s part in epic bloody crimes, from the genocide in Indonesia to the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, now attack the “human rights record” of Ecuador, whose real crime is to stand up to the bullies in London and Washington.

    Unclubbable

    It is as if the Olympics happy-clappery has been subverted overnight by an illuminating display of colonial thuggery. Witness the British army officer-cum-BBC reporter Mark Urban “interviewing” a braying Sir Christopher Meyer, Blair’s former apologist in Washington, outside the Ecuadorean embassy, the pair of them erupting with Blimpish indignation that the unclubbable Assange and the uncowed Rafael Correa should expose the western system of rapacious power. Similar affront is vivid in the pages of the Guardian, which has counselled Hague to be “patient” and that storming the embassy would be “more trouble than it is worth”. Assange was not a political refugee, the Guar­dian declared, because “neither Sweden nor the UK would in any case deport someone who might face torture or the death penalty”.

    The irresponsibility of this statement matches the Guardian’s perfidious role in the whole Assange affair. The paper knows full well that documents released by WikiLeaks indicate that Sweden has consistently submitted to pressure from the United States in matters of civil rights. In December 2001, the Swedish government abruptly revoked the political refugee status of two Egyptians, Ahmed Agiza and Mohammed el-Zari, who were handed to a CIA kidnap squad at Stockholm airport and “rendered” to Egypt, where they were tortured. An investigation by the Swedish ombudsman for justice found that the government had “seriously violated” the two men’s human rights.

    In a 2009 US embassy cable obtained by Wiki­Leaks, entitled “WikiLeaks puts neutrality in the Dustbin of History”, the Swedish elite’s vaunted reputation for neutrality is exposed as a sham. Another US cable reveals that “the extent of [Sweden’s military and intelligence] co-operation [with Nato] is not widely known” and unless kept secret “would open the government to domestic criticism”.

    The Swedish foreign minister, Carl Bildt, played a notorious leading role in George W Bush’s Committee for the Liberation of Iraq and retains close ties to the Republican Party’s extreme right. According to the former Swedish director of public prosecutions Sven-Erik Alhem, Sweden’s decision to seek the extradition of Assange on allegations of sexual misconduct is “unreasonable and unprofessional, as well as unfair and disproportionate”. Having offered himself for questioning, Assange was given permission to leave Sweden for London where, again, he offered to be questioned. In May, in a final appeal judgment on the extradition, Britain’s Supreme Court introduced more farce by referring to non-existent “charges”.

    Accompanying this has been a vituperative personal campaign against Assange. Much of it has emanated from the Guardian, which, like a spurned lover, has turned on its besieged former source, having hugely profited from WikiLeaks disclosures. With not a penny going to Assange or WikiLeaks, a Guardian book has led to a lucrative Hollywood movie deal. The authors, David Leigh and Luke Harding, gratuitously abuse Assange as a “damaged personality” and “callous”. They also reveal the secret password he had given the paper which was designed to protect a digital file containing the US embassy cables. On 20 August, Harding was outside the Ecuadorean embassy, gloating on his blog that “Scotland Yard may get the last laugh”. It is ironic, if entirely appropriate, that a Guardian editorial putting the paper’s latest boot into Assange bears an uncanny likeness to the Murdoch press’s predictable augmented bigotry on the same subject. How the glory of Leveson, Hackgate and honourable, independent journalism doth fade.

    Not a fugitive

    His tormentors make the point of Assange’s persecution. Charged with no crime, he is not a fugitive from justice. Swedish case documents, including the text messages of the women involved, demonstrate to any fair-minded person the absurdity of the sex allegations – allegations almost entirely promptly dismissed by the senior prosecutor in Stockholm, Eva Finne, before the intervention of a politician, Claes Borgström. At the pre-trial of Bradley Manning, a US army investigator confirmed that the FBI was secretly targeting the “founders, owners or managers of WikiLeaks” for espionage.

    Four years ago, a barely noticed Pentagon document, leaked by WikiLeaks, described how WikiLeaks and Assange would be destroyed with a smear campaign leading to “criminal prosecution”. On 18 August, the Sydney Morning Herald disclosed, in a Freedom of Information release of official files, that the Australian government had repeatedly received confirmation that the US was conducting an “unprecedented” pursuit of Assange and had raised no objections. Among Ecuador’s reasons for granting asylum is Assange’s abandonment “by the state of which he is a citizen”. In 2010, an investigation by the Australian Federal Police found that Assange and WikiLeaks had committed no crime. His persecution is an assault on us all and on freedom.

     

     

     

     

    New Statesman

  • 2012 London Olympics Attack Warning

    Multiple indicators suggest that the 2012 London Olympics may be used as a stage for false flag operations: the environment is primed for insider attacks, the security plans are flawed, and the threat indicators match other false flag attacks.

    Large amounts of troops, contractors, and weapons may provide cover for insider agents to carry out attacks at the 2012 London Olympics. Excessive amounts of force and materiel combined with the last minute changes provide a chaotic environment in which equipment may be staged to carry out terrorist attacks. Such a chaotic environment is also ideal for subversive agents that have security credentials to operate in, because it provides them with cover stories for their activities and possible inconsistencies in their behavior.

    Security plans for the 2012 London Olympics are flawed. An independent investigation of the G4S security contractor by Ben Fellows has revealed that the company is implementing measures that are inconsistent with their stated security objectives. G4S is reported to have 200000 casket linings on standby – a measure that indicates a plan to fail at security. G4S is reported to have plans for evacuating London – another indicator of planned failure. G4S is well documented as failing to provide adequate security staff. The combination of these factors suggests that instead of providing qualified security staff to prevent attacks, G4S has been focusing on controlling the effects of an attack. Mitigating large scale disasters is usually handled by the government. It is suspicious that a company that fails at its direct responsibilities expends its limited resources on measures that are outside of its competence and stated objectives. These indicators are especially alarming, since security contractors have privileged access and are therefore well placed to carry out large scale terrorist operations, to plant false evidence, and to destroy real evidence.

    The threat indicators present at the 2012 London Olympics are consistent with the false flag terrorism operations carried out in the past. The film “7/7 Ripple Effect 2” provides a thorough analysis of a recent false flag operation in London and provides a publically available primer of some of the tradecraft that may be used for other false flag operations. Some examples of documented tradecraft include using security credentials to manage subversive agents, using security operations to stage equipment for attacks, using security credentials to place false evidence, using security credentials to destroy real evidence, and fabricating public reports. These examples of tradecraft match the threat indicators present at the 2012 London Olympics and support the concerns for the safety of the public.

    False flag operations are typically conducted to manipulate public opinion. False flag operations are frequently used as pretext for war. It might be too late to provide an effective deterrent for the possible attacks at the London Olympics at this point. Even if it is too late to prevent such attacks, vigilance is needed to mitigate the risk of false flag operations being used as pretext for even greater bloodshed and to bring the responsible parties to justice if such attacks take place.