Category Archives: Texts

Jadaliyya: ‘Ottomanalgia’ and the protests in Turkey

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It was the sixth day since a peaceful sit-in had begun in Gezi Park in Istanbul to protect the last remaining green space in the center of the city. Protests had spread throughout the country due to the excessive use of force by police, including tear gas, water cannons, and plastic bullets against protesters from various backgrounds. On this same [...] → Read the full article…

The Guardian: Concern at response to Turkish protests

As academics at the University of Oxford, we would like to express our deep concern about the events taking place in Turkey. In response to the protests in Istanbul, as well as in other towns and cities in the country, rights and freedoms are being severely curtailed. In addition to what seems to be the deployment of excessive police force, [...] → Read the full article…

A life made dark!

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“As the equipment was entrusted to me, I couldn’t just leave them there. I was made a direct target,” says Muharrem Dalsüren, who lost one of his eyes by a gas bomb fired by the police in Ankara. Muharrem Dalsüren, a sanitation employee for the Çankaya Municipality, lost an eye after gas bombs were shot by the police while he [...] → Read the full article…

A Professor and His Student Lost Their Eyes!

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A YTU Professor and his student from the same university lost their eyes during events that began on October 27th. Dr. Burak Ünveren, a research assistant at YTU (Yildiz Technical University), and Selim Polat, a student from YTU, got wounded by tear-gas canisters and rubber bullets. Mr. Ünveren, 31, got injured in his left eye during the intervention by riot [...] → Read the full article…

Blinded by a tear gas cannister!

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A group of about 200 demonstrators marched on the Antalya headquarters of the ruling AK Party on Saturday evening, The headquarters, located on the main street (Gazi Bulvarı) was attacked with Molotov cocktails and stones. Riot police responded with high pressure water canons and tear gas. In the battle ensuing, Vedat Oğuz received a direct hit to his eye and [...] → Read the full article…

Send The Necessary Evidence…

Today I talked to Nonlethal Technologies Company in United States, from which Turkish police provides most of CN and Cs gas. The man on the phone was the same person that I asked a week ago whether being exposed to this amount of gas would affect my health or not. This time the point I wanted to make was about [...] → Read the full article…

I apologize to you, my Kurdish brother, my Kurdish Sister

My personal campaign I started after the Gezi Parki Resistance As you know since 2 weeks there is a movement that started in Taksim that later spread to whole Turkey. That day the intervention to the 500 people there was so brutal that hundreds of thousands followed them. During these 2 weeks a lot of people became one. Liberals, socialists, [...] → Read the full article…

Raving Police!!!

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  A security guard, for almost 13 years leaves his workplace; Mimar Sinan University on Saturday morning 1st of June 2013, to go home. He gets stuck between police forces and the resisters nearby Yıldız Technical University. He raises his hands and asks for permission to pass saying; “ I am also in public service and I am going home”. [...] → Read the full article…