Okan Göçer sustained head injuries due to a tear gas canister on June 1st on Istiklal Street where he had gone to participate in the Gezi protests. He was in a coma for twenty one days. The left side of his head collapsed as a result of his broken skull. We met with him at Okmeydanı Hospital. He wore a [...] → Read the full article…
Nurse Hazal Kangal was taken into custody while she was on her emergency service shift. Nurse Kangal, who was on duty in Ankara, Basbakanlik during Gezi resistance had been on call for 24 hours when she was taken into custody for “being flagged” on another incident. Kangal was detained before within the scope of Hopa case, for attending the protests [...] → Read the full article…
Next ‘chapullers’ of the ‘Chapullers Tell the Story of Gezi’series are LGBT individuals… They have been one of the trending topics due to their Gezi slogans and their discourses. Two of those chapullers, Şehriban and Harun, told insanhaber.com how they have taken their place in Gezi. One of the groundbreaking elements of Gezi Resistance was LGBT individuals. They put their [...] → Read the full article…
Die Gezi-Park-Befragungen, die das türkische Bildungsministerium unter Lehrern und Schülern durchführt, weitet sich immer mehr aus. In Ankara ließen manche Schulleiter ihre Schüler mitten in den Ferien in die Schulen kommen. Sie verlangten, dass die Schüler auf ein Blatt Papier die Namen derjenigen Lehrer aufschreiben, die sie „dazu aufforderten, an Demonstrationen teilzunehmen“. Zudem sollten sie die Namen der Mitschüler vermerken, [...] → Read the full article…
“Dakar TOMA”, “TOMAZILLA”, “At-At TOMA”, “TOMAdurma”, “Çapulsavar”, “TOMAĞĞĞ”… What’s your favorite TOMA? TOMA – acronym for Intervention Vehicle to Public Events in Turkish – has inspired Gezi Park activists to launch a mock campaign where people are to design their own TOMAs. Initiated under slogans like “Don’t expect everything from the government” and “We won’t learn how to design TOMAs [...] → Read the full article…
For most people around the world, the recent uprising against Turkey’s ruling Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (AKP) is still a puzzle. Why did a protest over a park lead to country-wide unrest so quickly? The Turkish government has explained what happened by resorting to a conspiracy theory, referring to an international “interest-rate lobby” that planned to overthrow the government. Yet, [...] → Read the full article…
Paradoxically, Gezi Park presented Erdoğan with a golden opportunity, one that could also have helped Turkish democracy part company from the tendency of powerful political parties to drift into populism-fuelled authoritarianism. For the global media what happened in Gezi Park throughout June is now old news. Not so much for the citizens of Turkey. Gezi still remains the single most [...] → Read the full article…
After the first week, the police intervention decreased considerably and Kordon was transformed into a liberated, ‘Police Free Zone.’ Therefore, it was easier to sit and talk. On the evening of May 31st, I and my parents were at a wedding. Gezi Park was not a significant issue on my agenda. How could it be, anyway? There was nothing extraordinary [...] → Read the full article…
Turkey’s President Abdullah Gül voiced his “deep grief” over the loss of lives during anti-government protests held during the Gezi Park unrest, as he drew attention to the peaceful use of the right to protest and expressed hope that no such loss would happen again in the country. “We have felt deep grief for everybody who lost their lives during [...] → Read the full article…
A court arrested four suspects (including a policeman) for the willful murder of Ali Ismail Korkmaz, a Gezi Park protestors who died in the results of massive beating in Eskişehir province. By Beyza KURAL – Istanbul – BIA News Desk beyza@bianet.org A court arrested four suspects (including a policeman) who stood trial for the willful murder of Ali Ismail Korkmaz [...] → Read the full article…