Category Archives: Support Messages

CHOMSKY SPECIAL

Noam Chomsky’s call to the World about the Taksim Gezi Park Resistance Chomsky Salutes the Gezi Park Resistance Noam Chomsky’s call to the World about the Taksim Gezi Park Resistance What is taking place on the streets of Istanbul and other Turkish cities today is first of all, an inspiring illustration of what the general population can do to combat [...] → Read the full article…

WMA Urges Turkish Authorities to End Excessive Force

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…

Gezi Park Resistance message from Roger Waters

“To all my friends in Turkey I am with you! We are with you! You are so right to resist the forces of autocracy and repression. It doesn’t matter who they are. If I read the Internet right, in your case, you are resisting autocratic religious zealots. Turkey is your country and we support you and yearn for your freedom, [...] → Read the full article…

Coelho: Shame on us

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

A Message to the Protestors from Slavoj Zizek

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…

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…

Firat News: Demirtaş – We stand by the people

Speaking about the Taksim resistance which has spread to the whole country on its eight day now, Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş commented the protest as a ‘legitimate rebellion’ against repression. Demirtaş said they stood by people’s legitimate resistance which -he said- was the only way to achieve democracy and freedom. He pointed out that protestors on [...] → Read the full article…