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Cafe Babel: Post-Gezi Park embraces ‘park forums’ spirit – Cansu Ekmekcioğlu

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Abbasağa Park forum | Sinan Cakmak Right after the #OccupyGezi movement was ‘evicted’ from Taksim Square’s infamous Gezi Park on 15 June, thousands of people began to gather together in neighborhood forums to discuss the local and national issues directly affecting their lives. Every evening people from all walks of life come to parks around nine in the evening to [...] → Read the full article…

Şiddet Öyküleri: “I am a citizen-journalist now!”

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Berhan Soner, working for Olay Newspaper, which has been published in Bursa for 17 years now, and undertaking the editorial work for the online version of the newspaper, has been just another journalist who was condemned during the Gezi Park events. Soner drew government’s attention by what he wrote on Twitter, which is described as a “menace” by the PM [...] → Read the full article…

Hurriyet Daily News: Police fire water cannon, tear gas to disperse demo for gas canister-hit teenager fighting for life

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ISTANBUL - Police fired water cannons and tear gas at a group of demonstrators who gathered in Taksim Square to protest the violence used against a 14-year-old teenager who has been in intensive care for 46 days after being hit by a tear gas canister in Istanbul during the Gezi Park unrest. Berkin Elvan was not a protester but a by-stander [...] → Read the full article…

habersoL: We met during the resistance- A rapper called Ozbi, A song called ‘Asi’

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We interviewed Onur Dursun, aka Ozbi, who received attention with the song called “Asi” (Rebel) and its video that he made for the Gezi Resistance. “The fear wall has been broken. It depends on little sparks after this point. I am not a politician but organizing is much needed.” Onur Dursun, aka Ozbi, who received attention with the video he [...] → Read the full article…

Bostonbul: Briefing about recent protests in Turkey sheds light on police brutality and human rights violations

July 29, 2013 Media Contact – Gaye Ozpinar / Fusun H. Tufan – Tel: (641) 715- 3900 x 677028# – info@bostonbul.org July 30, 2013, 11am, State House (Room 437), 24 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts Boston, MA, July 29, 2013 – Bostonbul (www.bostonbul.org) and a panel of experts will be discussing the recent protests in Turkey with introduction from Representative Denise [...] → Read the full article…

The guardian: My sacking is an attack not just on journalism, but on Turkish democracy

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By Yavuz Baydar Turkey needs freedom of expression more than ever. Erdoğan’s clampdown could stop dead our transition to a liberal democracy Last week I was fired from my job as independent ombudsman for the Turkish daily newspaper Sabah, following the censoring of my column. I had worked for the newspaper in this position since 2004. I had been hired [...] → Read the full article…

Hurriyet Daily News: Residents of Kuzguncuk act to save their gardens

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ISTANBUL – Hürriyet Daily News Locals of Istanbul’s Kuzguncuk neighborhood campaign to prevent a historical vegetable garden from allegedly turning into a private school By Vercihan Ziflioğlu vercihan.ziflioglu@hurriyet.com.tr The residents of Istanbul’s Kuzguncuk neighborhood are campaigning against the zoning of a historical vegetable garden, which they allege will be turned into a private school. Reports that the General Directorate for [...] → Read the full article…

Evrensel: He’s painted the Gezi Resistance on ceramic, and got fired

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During the Gezi process, the painter Noyan Yayla has always been critical about the government and reacted to the brutal police interventions through his art, and he has been fired by the Güray Seramik House, where he was working. His ceramic work with the graffiti tag, “Shut up, Tayyip!”written on it was broken into pieces. The incident has aroused the [...] → Read the full article…

Şiddet Öyküleri: “I am looking for the witnesses of the police violence I was subjected to”

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A young woman, who rode a bike, photographed the events helped people the during Gezi protests in Ankara on 2 June, has been beaten up by the police while eating at a cafe. She was harshly abused by the police for half an hour because she had a cycle helmet that was taken as evidence of ‘being a demonstrator’. She [...] → Read the full article…

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