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A California woman has filed a lawsuit against Apple following company’s statement that they deliberately slow down iPhones as they get older.
Violetta Mailyan and her lawyers demand the off-the-wall amount of $999,999,999,000, Patently Apple reported.
Last week Apple confirmed that it does deliberately slow down the operation of older iPhones order to avoid the devices from shutting down because of aging batteries.
Turkey’s main opposition party has filed a lawsuit against the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, accusing Ankara of “aiding and abetting a terrorist organization.”
The Republican People’s Party (CHP), Turkey’s main opposition party, has filed a criminal complaint against senior officials of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), including President Erdogan, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, National Intelligence Organization (MIT) Chief Hakan Fidan.
The complaint accuses Ankara of being complicit in violence caused by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which Ankara itself considers a terrorist organization, as well as the group’s accumulation of weapons, for political gain.
“More fatally, just in order to go through election periods calmly, the terrorist organization’s activities of transferring and piling up weaponry, both in rural areas and in urban centers, were openly overlooked,” CHP Deputy Chair Bulent Tezcan said as part of the filing.
The complaint cites the fact that only eight out of 290 requests to conduct anti-terror operations by the Turkish Armed Forces were granted during election periods.
As evidence, Tezcan cited a secret meeting between leaders of the AKP and jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan.
The complaint follows statements made by CHP leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu, accusing the AKP of aiding terrorist organizations by “overlooking the stockpiling of weapons by the PKK.”
Highlighting unrest within the Turkish government, the nation’s highest court opened its own investigation into government links to the PKK last summer. This followed a criminal complaint by the ruling AKP against the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP).
Critics claim that the AKP’s complaint is political, attempting to force the HDP to comply with the Erdogan government.
Southeastern Turkey has been engulfed in violence as Turkish security forces crackdown on Kurdish communities to root out militant groups. The government’s actions have been roundly criticized by a number of rights groups.
“If we cannot solve the Kurdish issue in democratic ways, I am sure the next generation of the Kurds will be very radical,” Mehmet Yuksel, a representative of the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party, told Sputnik.
“We already see youths of old that are much more radical. They already think that the political ways are not the solution.”
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By Lisa Hagen and Ben Kamisar
Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) presidential campaign filed a lawsuit Friday evening in federal court against the Democratic National Committee, following the suspension of his campaign from the DNC’s voter database.
Earlier in the day, campaign manager Jeff Weaver threatened that it would take the DNC to federal court if the national party committee didn’t lift the suspension.
The lawsuit comes hours after the DNC barred the Sanders campaign from accessing the party’s voter file, as well as his campaign’s own data, after a breach by a campaign staffer obtaining private data from the campaign of Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton.
The Sanders campaign said it has fired that staffer.
The 12-page lawsuit filed with the U.S. Court for the District of Columbia claims that the loss of access to the voter file amounts to “damage and financial losses … that are incapable of precise calculation, but exceed $600,000.00 per day.” It argues that the “loss of DNC support could significantly disadvantage, if not cripple, a Democratic candidate’s campaign for public office.”
It notes that a fundraising drive between Dec. 14 and Dec. 16 raised $2.4 million for the campaign from donors mostly from “the strategic use of Voter Data.”
The suit asks for “immediate restoration” of the campaign’s access to the voter data system, damages “presently known to exceed $75,000.00” and whatever else “the Court deems just and proper.”
Sanders’s team only had hours to prepare the lawsuit, shown in some typographical errors present in the court filing.
Journalist Cüneyt Arat (L) and the President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (R). (Photo: Cihan)
Cüneyt Arat, an Adana-based visually impaired journalist, tweeted on Monday that he has been sued for the second time by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for having allegedly insulted him.
In June, Arat shared a photo of a court document notifying him that he had been sued by Erdoğan. “I’m not at all sorry to be sued by you, @rt_erdogan. You are suing a disabled person the age of your grandchildren,” Arat tweeted. He later shared a photo of himself with Erdoğan, and wrote: “Once you loved me, you praised me. Now you are suing me.”
According to Monday’s tweets, Arat is charged with insulting the president, and may face up to four years in prison. He stated that he has been asked to attend hearings on Dec. 21 and Oct. 14 for the first and second cases, respectively.
Arat also claimed that senior officials from the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) offered by phone to “make him rich” if he publicly apologized to Erdoğan. He said he refused, and will continue to be a voice for people with disabilities.
Denying that he has ever insulted Erdoğan, either on Twitter or in his reporting, Arat argued that he has the right to criticize a president who is constitutionally bound, and who has publicly vowed, to be politically impartial, but who instead organized rallies to support the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) before the June 7 general election.
Journalists and public figures who are critical of Erdoğan and the AK Party have been targeted by police and prosecutors with the same charge, which is widely considered to be a new method of intimidating political opponents.
Dozens, including journalists Sedef Kabaş, Hidayet Karaca and Mehmet Baransu, as well as high school students, activists and even Merve Büyüksaraç, a former Miss Turkey, have been prosecuted for having allegedly insulted Erdoğan on social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook.
In April, the international advocacy group Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on Turkey to end prosecutions for insulting public officials, criticizing the increasing number of criminal cases, some filed against minors, in the country.
Source: Zaman
YEREVAN. – Electric Networks of Armenia (ENA) CJSC sued Glendale Hills CJSC, requiring to declare it bankrupt, ENA press-service told Armenian News – NEWS.am.
According to the information, Glendаle Hills owes ENA roughly 138 million AMD for electricity. The question is considered in the Court of General Jurisdiction of Yerevan’s Kentron and Nork-Marash Administrative districts, under the supervision of Judge Aleksey Sukoyan.
Comments of Glendаle Hills Company with regard to this matter couldn’t be received.
Besides Glendаle Hills, a number of other companies owe ENA, among them Nairit, Hrazdan Cement, Vanadzor Chemical Plant, Artsakh Energo, Garni and Dzoraghbyur. In fact, some of those companies owe ENA over 1 billion AMD. The debts of Vanadzor Chemical Plant, Nairit and Hrazdan Cement comprise 400 million AMD, that of Garni reaching 46 million AMD.
May 27, 2015 2:41 PM
The Armenian Apostolic Church has filed a case in Turkey’s Constitutional Court for the return of land and the iconic Kozan monastery in Adana. The monastery once was the largest belonging to the Armenian Church in Turkey, and it is one of thousands of properties seized by the Turkish state. Report Voice of America
This is widely seen as a groundbreaking legal case for the prospect of reclaiming the Catholicosate of Cilicia, which dates back to 1293, was taken over a century ago by Turkish authorities, during the mass killings of Armenians. Ankara has strongly denied the killings by Ottoman Turks was genocide.
Church spokesperson Teni Pirri-Simonian said the timing of the suit is deliberate.
“We are doing this 100 years after the genocide, for the youth. It is the center of our faith, it is the center of our identity. Therefore the church, by having its headquarters, is also giving life to all these symbols,” said Pirri-Simonian. “Now if it would have its ripple effect, of course it will have it. The church left more than 1,000 churches in different parishes, in different towns that our people were living in before the genocide.”
Pressuring Ankara
The case is not expected to be the last faced by Turkish authorities. Analysts say Yerevan and the wider Armenian Diaspora see the opening of the case as a means of adding pressure on Ankara to recognize the genocide claims.
Political scientist Cengiz Aktar of Istanbul’s Suleyman Sah University said the Armenian Diaspora and its supporters are investing heavily in the project.
“There is now a worldwide effort to develop more and more claims at all levels. There are two big groups, and one is based in the United States and the other in France, who come with extensive records of properties confiscated or taken by force, illegal action,” said Aktar.
Estimates of the value of the properties being sought could run into tens of billions of dollars. The Armenian Church in Istanbul, however, has remained silent about the case.
Journalist Fatih Gokhan Diler of Agos, Turkey’s bilingual Turkish Armenian newspaper, said the silence likely is a combination of rivalry and fear.
“There is [a] certain rivalry between the Church in Armenia and the Church in Istanbul. So they [are] not always on the same side on these kind of cases,” said Diler. “And they do not want to speak much about Armenian genocide, confiscated Armenian properties and all hard issue. They cannot say openly their views, because they might be some problems coming from the government.”
Turkey’s Constitutional Court
The ruling AK Party, which is in the midst of a general election, has not commented on the case. It did introduce a limited program of returning some confiscated properties taken from Turkey’s Christian minorities, but that program has ended.
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has not yet decided whether to accept this latest case filed by the Armenian Church.
The Armenian Church has said if it fails, it will take the case to the European Court of Human Rights; but in January, the Strasbourg court ruled in Turkey’s favor in the case of a local Armenian foundation seeking the return of a building in Istanbul.
Former European Court judge Riza Turmen warned it is far from certain the Armenian Church will be successful.
“These [are] very difficult cases because of the past history. When [going] to court, because of the time that has elapsed, there are many legal obstacles for these cases to become successful,” said Turmen.
With potentially hundreds of cases by individual members of the Armenians Diaspora, as well the Armenian Church, observers warn that Ankara could be facing a wave of litigation, both nationally and internationally.