Internet culture

The Istanbul Village Heads Solidarity Association has filed a criminal complaint against Turkish cartoon magazine Leman's management and one of its caricaturists over an "insulting" cover, which depicted a village head - allegedly drawn akin to jailed outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan - taking a selfie with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an.

There are some very scary photos floating around the internet. This particular one is up near the top as one of the creepiest. Watch the reflection of the woman in the window as the man is taking a selfie. Twitter brought the image to the mainstream media, after it was previously featured on 9gag. Some say it is photoshop, others another woman and the mystery goes on.

Anonymous have released a new video threatening to go after ISIS following the Brussels terrorist attacks. The online hackers named their new ‘attack’ against ISIS with the code name ‘#opbrussels and #opbelgium. They pledge to eradicate ISIS. ‘As long as we continue to exist we will chase after you’, the video says.

Social media and selfies are two things that have become interwoven into the everyday fabric in our western culture! Some selfie fanatics go the the extremes to stand out from the rest, even endangering their lives get to take that one selfie on the top of a skyscraper or hanging of a tall bridge.

London is the most popular hashtag on twitter with ‘London’ and ‘travels’ posted over 630,000 times in 2015, 200,000 times more that the next destinations, Paris, New York, Rome and Tokyo. The word ‘London’ in itself was tweeted over 80,000,000 times in 2015 along with the words ‘art’, ‘tarvels’ and ‘fashion’.

Net Patrol has received more than 2,600 reports concerning child pornography or online harassment since the service launched in August 2013.

After ice bockets and the condom challenge, there’s a new craze taking Chinese social media by storm. It’s the challenge of true womanhood based on the premise that only a “real woman” can hold up a pen using her breasts.

Manny the cat loves to take selfies, or at least fondle GoPro cameras. According to Instagram user @yoremahm, Manny learned to use the camera by chance when it reached out to touch the camera during a shoot one day. Now, Manny’s selfies have become an Internet sensation.

A Turkish hacker team broke into a Russian minister's Instagram account on Jan. 3, as the crisis over Turkey's Nov. 24 downing of a Russian jet continued to spill online.

A number of Turkish banks reported serious disruption in online operations and credit card transactions Dec. 25, as hackers stepped up a series of cyberattacks seen in the country over the past week.