Category Archives: Texts

Bianet: 94 Percent of Gezi resisters participate individually, poll says

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A recent poll conducted by KONDA on 4411 participants on Gezi Resistance revealed that Gezi protestors are averagely 28 years old with 79 percent not affiliated with any political organization and 45 percent attending a protest for the first time. KONDA Research and Consulting Firm released a poll regarding the Gezi Park Resistance in Turkey. According to the poll, 49 [...] → Read the full article…

A protestor’s opinions of the referendum proposal regarding Gezi Park

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First of all, I’d like to note that the following account belongs entirely to me. It doesn’t bind my friends in the resistance. I am alone and free like a tree in the forest. I find the PM’s declaration about holding a referendum on the Gezi project insufficient and disingenuous. The Gezi Park actions  began when a handful of ecologists, [...] → Read the full article…

Jadaliyya: Artists in Resistance: In solidarity with the resistance at Gezi Park

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[The following statement was released by the undersigned group of artists on 3 June 2013 at Gezi Park. Click here for more information. Support messages can be sent to artistsinresistanceturkey@gmail.com.] We, the artists of Turkey, express our serious concern over the ongoing incidents which have erupted in Istanbul with the Gezi Park resistance, and which have instigated spontaneous protests all [...] → Read the full article…

12 June, Press Release from Taksim Solidarity.

As TAKSIM SOLIDARITY, we want to announce that none of our representatives have been invited and none will be participating to the meetings that will be held with Prime Minister. No meeting, while the police violence disregarding right to life so relentlessly continues in and around the Gezi Park, will produce results. As the citizens of Turkey follow closely, a [...] → Read the full article…

Academics for Gezi: Our Call

As academics concerned with the recent developments in Turkey, we stand in solidarity with the people peacefully protesting to protect Gezi Park in Taksim, and we condemn the excessive police brutality that was inflicted on them. What started on Monday, May 27, as a movement to peacefully protest the demolition of a public park and its replacement with a shopping [...] → Read the full article…

Guardian: Erdoğan’s reaction to Turkey protests reveals ominous Putin parallels

“Erdoğan’s polarising tactics might have come straight from the Putin playbook. Instead of talking to the demonstrators – a diverse and previously non-political bunch – he has blamed the protests on a murky foreign conspiracy. Many critical journalists are already in jail and on Tuesday Erdoğan denounced the international media. His ruling Islamist-rooted Justice and Development party (AKP) has made [...] → Read the full article…

A tear gas bomb thrown and smashed everything!

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Tear gas came from all around. People panicked and dispersed. Since the bus I was standing on was a barricade at the same time, dispersing people started to run over each other in this narrow passage. There were injured people lying on this passage. The most severe police intervention that lasted in Taksim all day long occured at around 20.15 [...] → Read the full article…

Where are you, journalists?

  I am reporting exactly what my friend told walking from Gezi Park to AKM (Atatürk Cultural Center) direction. “A the moment we are in front of AKM. There is a woman in a wheelchair who shields protesters with her own body against even slightest interference of the police. There is another woman next to her, who I think is [...] → Read the full article…

Çaglayan Courthouse: “You can’t touch us!”

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“I was there in the Çağlayan Courthouse in today’s riot. What started as a simple press release, turned into something else and here are some of the incidents that happened right before my eyes: “RIOT” security guards that built a wall of flesh, looked at us from a meter’s distance and said, “If you come any closer we will knock [...] → Read the full article…

He Suffered a brain hemorrhage

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“Ali İsmail Korkmaz, a 19 year old first year university student at A.Ü, suffered a brain hemorrhage in the early hours of Monday morning (on 02.06.2013, day 3 of the Gezi Park protests) after receiving several blows to the head from a small group of thugs. The incident happened in one of the side streets off of Yunus Emre Street, [...] → Read the full article…