“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 days I have been attacked at with chemicals several times just because I have been in a square that’s hundred meters away from my home. I almost broke my leg on a cement flower pot as I was trying to escape blinded by the teargas. I stepped on a fifty year old woman who had collapsed on the ground, couldn’t even help her get up. I have seen people whose heads were cracked open, people covered in blood. Over and over again I have been tear gassed in my home. Over and over again I have been insulted. I do not hit anybody, I do not throw stones.
If that park and the square won’t be emptied without the current governer and the police commissioner being removed from office while these crimes against humanity are being committed, then everybody should take responsibility. For myself I know the answer to that. Things that will happen from now on, will happen on their own”
Efe Oztezdogan
Excerpt from Facebook
June 14, 2013
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