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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…

RT: Anonymous, Syrian Electronic Army hack Turkish govt networks, leak emails incl PM’s

Turkish government networks were hacked on Wednesday, compromising the private information of staffers in PM Tayyip Erdogan’s office, a source in PM’s office confirmed to Reuters. The attack was in support of the ongoing anti-government protests. Staff email accounts were reportedly accessed after a phishing attack, and those affected were cut off from the network, a source said. Anonymous hacked [...] → Read the full article…

The New York Times: Civil disobedience on a Turkish game show- Robert Mackey

Video from Monday’s broadcast of the Turkish quiz show “Kelime Oyunu,” or “The Word Game,” which took the current street protests in Turkey as its theme While most of Turkey’s journalists were carefully avoiding mention of the tens of thousands of protesters who poured into the streets this week, in a show of deference to the government that enraged supporters [...] → Read the full article…

Hürriyet Daily News: Tensions decrease despite some clashes in Gezi Park protests

Tension seemed to diminish on June 4, as the protests over the demolition of Taksim Gezi Park entered their second week, after spreading to nearly every province in Turkey. The heart of the protests in Istanbul’s Gezi Park continued in a more festive mood, a stark contrast to last week’s brutal police raids on the area. The protesters who took [...] → 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…

BirGun: Police bashed up 25 people in Sancaktepe

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25 people returning from a rally last night in Sancaktepe in support with Gezi Park demonstrations were hospitalized after being beaten up by the police. While 22 of the protesters were sent back home after being treated immediately, 3 of them who were in more serious status were referred to Kartal Research Hospital after the initial treatment in Sancaktepe District [...] → Read the full article…

Time: Live from ‘Occupied’ Gezi Park: In Istanbul, a new Turkish protest movement is born- Pelin Turgut

Last Friday, Ali Riza Gurs, manager of a local food business, saw the number of sit-in demonstrators at an Istanbul park swell, and spotted a problem: They were hungry and thirsty and would not leave Gezi Park, which is located in the heart of Istanbul and one of the city’s few remaining green spaces, because of bulldozers waiting to raze [...] → Read the full article…

Fıratnews: A protester shot to death by a gun in Hatay

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A young man, Abdullah Cömert, participating in the Gezi Park protests in the Armutlu neighborhood of Hatay’s town center, was dead, as a result of police shooting. According to the eye-witnesses, Cömert was killed by the bullets coming from the Scorpion police vehicle. It’s been reported that last night at 23:55 PM in the Armutlu neighborhood, there had been a [...] → Read the full article…

CNN: Report: Court to hear case at center of Istanbul protests- Gul Tuysuz

Istanbul (CNN) – A district court said it has agreed to hear a case against the rebuilding of historic barracks — a project that has been one of the catalysts for days of protests in the city, Turkey’s semi-official Anadolu news agency reported Friday. The court has ordered a temporary stop on any construction at Taksim Gezi Park, where the government [...] → Read the full article…

Daily Kos: Protests in Turkey – 24 arrested for social media crimes

Tonight 24 people were arrested in a police operation in Izmir. They were charged with using social media to ‘instigate public hatred and animosity’. The police used IP addresses to determine the addresses of 38 suspects but were able to locate and arrest only 24 of them during their raids on the 38 addresses tonight. The opposition party CHP has [...] → Read the full article…

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