“Four people died. From now on we all know what can happen. I have thought a lot, I am not angry at Taksim Platform or the artists for not being able to carry the weight of things that might happen. I have never hit anyone in my life. I haven’t thrown a stone or anything else to anyone. For fifteen [...] → Read the full article…
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…
“I haven’t seen Istanbul or Taksim. But until Taksim is free there’s no going back home,” she said. We said our farewells when the riot police began moving and parted ways. Ankara is up and awake. Kızılay, Tunalı… It is like the end of the world. Every street corner, every turn, every street, every square… The skies of Ankara [...] → Read the full article…
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…
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…
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…
If you ever saw TaksimGeziPark, you would never lose your hope for humanity, not to speak of this country. Wonder why? – Voluntary paramedics had built an infirmary. In this infirmary that wouldn’t differ much from Sahra hospital, voluntary doctors and nurses were working while people were granting the extra medicine they had brought. – On the tables under “Supplies” [...] → Read the full article…
Just came back from Taksim, where I spent most of the day. After seeing the realities on the ground, I’m in no doubt, that it didn’t matter to the police, their leaders, the government and Recep Tayyip Erdogan if we were to die or not. We did not stick with any stone throwers nor any political party groups, who were [...] → Read the full article…
“Last night (June 11, 2013) around 23:30 police stopped LGBT activist Hasan Yavuz in Dolapdere, near Taksim while he was bringing medicine, food and drinks to the Gezi Parki resistants. When he was asked by the police if he is bringing these to the aid of the terrorists in Gezi Parki he said “ yes, in the name of humanity, [...] → 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…