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Turkey Blocks is an independent digital research organization that monitors internet access restrictions and their relation to political incidents in Turkey. Using its network of monitoring probes, the project has uncovered and documented systematic mass-censorship of communications infrastructure, primarily social media services, during national emergencies and incidents of political significance relating to human rights, freedom of expression and public policy in the region. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Turkey BlocksA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Geochemical and petrographic approach for the origin of the limestone blocks of thewalls of the Great Temple of Hattusha, Çorum (N-Turkey)Influential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: 2020 Monthly PlannerThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Age of radiolarian‐chert blocks from the Senonian Ophiolitic Mélange (Ankara, Turkey)Cited 63 times
- Go sideways: Censorship in TurkeyA closely related topic
- Go sideways: NetBlocksA closely related topic
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Age of radiolarian‐chert blocks from the Senonian Ophiolitic Mélange (Ankara, Turkey)
The River Orontes in Syria and Turkey: Downstream variation of fluvial archives in different crustal blocks
A comprehensive cost-optimal approach for energy retrofit of existing multi-family buildings: Application to apartment blocks in Turkey
Allochthonous blocks misidentified as the basement: Implication for petroleum exploration in the SW Thrace Basin (Turkey)
Rotations of Normal Fault Blocks Quantify Extension in the Central Tauride Intramontane Basins, SW Turkey
Biostratigraphy of Lower Permian foraminiferal assemblages from platform-slope carbonate blocks within the Mersin Mélange, southern Turkey: Paleogeographical implications
Domestic Arrangements: The Maid's Room in the Ataköy Apartment Blocks, Istanbul, Turkey
Investigation of ageing effects on riprap blocks used in Gelingüllü earthfill dam, Yozgat, Turkey
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕2020 Monthly PlannerDumkist Planners · 2019
Loaves and FishesDorothy Day · 1963
Global migration and educationAnna Kirova · 2006
The Conspirators HierarchyJohn Coleman · 1992
Solvents and Self-Organization of PolymersPetr Munk · 1996
The Wide Awake Third ReaderClara Murray · 1908- 📕Beş bakişRichard Burdett · 2010
- 📕Westöstliche AbhandlungenFriedrich Max Meier · 1954
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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