Paulo Coelho tweeted the following note: Shame on us: tear gas used in Turkey against demonstrators is Made in Brasil @mohamedshehab86 @iavelar there is no such a thing as a "better" tear gas — Paulo Coelho (@paulocoelho) June 4, 2013
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Although triggered by the apparently modest local issue of protecting a park in the very center of Istanbul from commercial destruction, the ongoing protests in Turkey obviously refer to a much deeper malaise. The fact that protests exploded in a country widely perceived as a model of “moderate Islamism” with a booming economy are a key indicator of what causes [...] → Read the full article…
On June 4, after a week of protests that have seen hundreds of thousands of people pour into Istanbul’s Taksim Square and take to the streets of Ankara, Izmir and some 65 other cities across the country, Turkey’s President Abdullah Gül assured anxious businessmen that these events were not comparable to the revolutions that erupted in Tunisia and Egypt in [...] → Read the full article…
PRESS STATEMENT We Demand a Truly Democratic Government Respectful of a Participatory System based on Freedom and Peace! We will Continue to Resist the Authoritarian and Sexist Policies of the Turkish Government! As one of the 79 members of Taksim Solidarity Platform on Gezi Park, Women for Women’s Human Rights (WWHR)-New Ways continues to insist on the following demands of [...] → Read the full article…
Women are in rebellion! And you can’t stop it with gas, tanks, batons! Women are resisting along with all oppressed groups for the last two days! Workers, Kurds, LGBT’s, Alaweits, Muslims, non-Muslims, atheists and all the oppressed, exploited, insulted, constantly blamed to be the traitors are rebelling in Turkey. The resistance that started in Gezi Park in Taksim İstanbul spread [...] → Read the full article…
The protests having begun 6 days ago as a reaction to exterminating the trees at Taksim Gezi Parki and having expanded across the country are all an answer to the manipulation of the government to their lives; to the trials of the government to regulate the social life according to their own political believes; to the extermination of the whole [...] → Read the full article…
What you will read below is extremely disturbing. It is the firsthand impressions of a Boğaziçi (Bosphorus) University student who was detained by police in connection with the Gezi Park incidents in Istanbul. We, as a generation, grew up in an atmosphere of state brutality, when most of the time sex crimes were part of the torture process during military [...] → Read the full article…
Here is a look at gezi protests from GLAAD, Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation: The article by Hannah Moch from June 7th covers the unification that the different and sometimes rival groups experiences as they are united to protect gezi parki. There are opinions from protestors saying the gezi movement has allowed people from different groups to listen and [...] → Read the full article…
Lets have a look at the statements of some eye witnesses regarding the recent death of Adana District Police Commissioner Mustafa Sarı. I feel as if I have to write something about recent events because I need to get this out of my system. At the moment, many people are writing about and commenting on the events. Some of the [...] → Read the full article…