Music group Grup Abdal’s singer Burcu Sarak was taken into custody on the 6th of July. Her mother was also taken into custody because she didn’t want to let the police take her daughter. Burcu Sarak tells what she has gone through in the detention house: “They made my friend strip stark naked; they insulted and swore me; they didn’t [...] → Read the full article…
An eyewitness told the day when Ali İsmail Korkmaz was beaten to pulp. Korkmaz passed away in Eskișehir in the hospital where he was treated. The fifth fatality during the Gezi protests occurred yesterday when Ali İsmail Korkmaz passed away due to brain hemorrhage. Korkmaz, 19, was a freshman at the English Teacher Department at the Faculty of Education of [...] → Read the full article…
Police forces firing rubber bullets at the Gezi Park resisters from anti-riot armored vehicles, aka scorpions, used bullets containing metal balls and not colored dye. The bullet that wounded tradesman Volkan Kesanbilici and caused him to lose his left eye had dozens of metal balls in it. Kesanbilici was hit on May 31 by a police bullet fired from a [...] → Read the full article…
Ali İsmail Korkmaz, 19, who was beaten up by an unidentified group while he was runing away from tear gas firing of the police at Gezi Park solidarity demonstrations in Eskişehir on 2 June 2013, has passed away at Osmangazi University Hospital. An entry on Ekşi Sözlük – an online urban dictionary in Turkish – tells about the events of [...] → Read the full article…
Two plain-clothes officers posing as well-wishers attempted to enter the Taksim Ilkyardim Hospital Intensive Care Unit where 16-year-old Mustafa Ali Tombul was being treated after a tear gas canister broke his skull. Tombul, a high school student, had brain surgery after being injured during demonstrations in the Tarlabaşı neighborhood of Istanbul. New details relating to the police assault on Mustafa [...] → Read the full article…
Last Saturday night, the police detained 59 demonstrators who wanted to enter Gezi Park. Among the detainees only 8 of them were issued arrest warrants. In the Çağlayan courthouse, where those 8 protestors were held, it was claimed that three lawyers representing the protestors, two of which are women, were battered by the police because they wanted to take to [...] → Read the full article…
Upon the Taksim Solidarity’s call, people wanted to enter the Gezi Park yesterday and confronted once again with the police crackdown by pressurized water and tear gas bombs; they even tortured the protestors in the middle of the streets. Besides the police, some civilians with machetes also attacked the protestors. Özgür Doğan tells us one of such incidents that he [...] → Read the full article…
It is impossible for us to forget about that photograph. It was on 31 May 2013. The first days of Gezi resistance. Lobna Allami is the girl lying on the ground in the red t-shirt and blue shorts as a consequence of the incident in which tents were burnt down and people were attacked with tear gas bombs; the incident [...] → Read the full article…
The woman who was attacked by some machete weilding people in Taksim before the very eyes of the police told her story to SOL. The individuals who attacked people in Taksim in front of the police became the main agenda of Turkey today. People took pictures of the attacks and shared them instantly on social media. In one of the [...] → Read the full article…
During the Gezi protests, the night of 2nd June, Anatolian University student Caner Ertay was subjected to police torture, first by the riot police and then by the anti-terror branch. Ertay told what happened that night to ‘Stories of Violence from Turkey’, how he was carried in the trunk of a car rom hospital to hospital. This was the same [...] → Read the full article…