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The World Medical Association: WMA urges Turkish authorities to end excessive force

(05.06.2013) The World Medical Association has called on the Turkish authorities to end immediately the excessive use of force against peaceful protestors and to ensure the right to freedom of expression and assembly. It has also called for an independent and impartial investigation into the excessive use of force and for officials found to have ill-treated demonstrators or other members of [...] → Read the full article…

Radikal: Police said, “If you are a lawyer, what are you doing here, whore?”

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Crime report from the Ankara bar association: The police have committed the crime of torture that is not compatible with human dignity, and they have deployed disproportionate violence. They have beaten people who declared, “I am a lawyer.” The Ankara Bar Council has lodged a crime report and demanded the identity, and started a criminal case against the police officers [...] → Read the full article…

Story of Başak

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My name is Başak. I am 21 years old. Who did this to me? Handful of dogs!!! I guess a bit further than this would be death… We are not those provocateurs who, with sticks in their hands, are breaking the windows of the banks, destroying the streets and starting fire, and stirring up people making them run around. It’s true; I participated [...] → Read the full article…

Firat News: KCK – Taksim resistance a message for a new Turkey

In a written statement on the growing public resistance across the country, Kurdish Communities Union (KCK) Executive Council Presidency said the resistance has given a message for the structuring of a new democratic Turkey. KCK called on the Kurdish people to take initiative in the resistance and to take responsibility for the healthy progress of the process together with the [...] → Read the full article…

Bianet: Taksim Solidarity Submitted its Demands – “We Are Against Construction in Gezi Park”

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Taksim Dayanışması, a solidarity group that advocated for the preservation of Taksim Gezi Park, submitted its demands to Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç. The group demanded an official statement that confirmed the cancellation of all construction efforts in the park. Taksim Dayanışması, a solidarity group that advocated for the preservation of Taksim Gezi Park, has met with Deputy Prime Minister [...] → Read the full article…

Bianet: Photo Essay – Thousands Bring Gezi Parkı Resistance to A New Day

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There are thousands of people in Gezi Park and Taksim Square. They are bringing their struggle to a new day as they are saluting the resistance under the trees carved with names of who has lost lives. Leaving behind Day 8 of Gezi Parkı Resistance, thousands are bringing the resistance to a new day. Scores joined Gezi Park by the [...] → Read the full article…

Do not hit my wife

I am M.D. Ömür Mavioğlu. I am a retired faculty member of 9 Eylül University. I am an anesthesiologist and rehabilitation specialist. In my medical career of 31 years, I have tried to serve the people with all my knowledge and ability without  compromising my principles. I’ve never acted violently in my daily life and always abhorred acts of violence. [...] → Read the full article…

T24: Human Rights Foundation of Turkey: “640 thousand people have joined the demonstrations, 4 thousand people have been taken into custody and 3 thousand people have been injured”

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Human Rights Foundation of Turkey drew attention to the 4 thousand people who had been taken into custody during the Resistance against the demolition of Taksim Gezi Park. 3 thousand people have been injured, mainly in Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir. In its current commentary, Domestic Affairs has claimed that, in 400 demonstrations that took place in 75 cities, 3 thousand [...] → Read the full article…

Firat News: Leyla Khaled supports Taksim protest

Leyla Khaled, who was in Diyarbakır for the 1st Middle East Women’s Conference supported the protest in Taksim square and invited the demonstrators not to leave the square until their demands are met. The conference in Diyarbakır was dedicated to the memory of Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan, Leyla Şaylemez, who were brutally murdered in Paris on 9 January. Leyla Khaled is a [...] → Read the full article…

Technosociology: It takes a quiz show host: #Occupygezi and culture jamming aganist censorship Turkey

I’ve written about the abject failure of Turkish media to adequately cover the news of the most important protests in the country since the 1980 coup. Many media outlets aired irrelevant documentaries and talk shows (talk show about legal definitions of theft, cooking shows, dolphin training, etc) while clashes spread to dozens of provinces and many neighborhoods in many major [...] → Read the full article…

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