Category Archives: Protests

Brussels, BELGIUM

On June 1st, 2013, over a hundred people, and on 4th of June, around 350 people in Brussels showed their solidarity with the people of Turkey in the Place du Luxembourg. Protest targeted the excessive use of force by Turkish police, the abuses of the AKP government, and Turkish media which remained silent about the incidents in Turkey. The European [...] → 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…

Geneva, SWITZERLAND

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On the 4th of June, around 200 people gathered in front of the United Nation’s Geneva Centre. Police violence in Turkey and the government’s authoritarian attitude were criticized in the declarations that were read in Turkish, English and French. Demonstrations which had strong echoes in both the Genevan and Swedish presses were ended by singing songs and shouting out slogans. [...] → Read the full article…

New York, USA

On the 1st of June around 1000 people gathered in Zuccotti Park where Occupy Wall Street movement began. The demonstration, organized by artists and intellectuals living in New York, was held under the title “New York Action Group in Solidarity with Occupy Gezi Parkı, Istanbul Facebook Group.” The demonstration, punctuated by slogans such as “We will keep resisting and win”, [...] → Read the full article…

Melbourne, AUSTRALIA

Around 1000 of protesters gathered in front of the State Library in Melbourne on 2nd of June, 2013 and then spread to the Federation Square. Demonstrations were against the Turkish government’s ruthless attitude to the innocent protests in Turkey. They wanted to support the people of Turkey against police violence and lack of freedom, which have been the major cause of [...] → Read the full article…

Portland, USA

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On the 2nd of Jun, around 100 people gathered in Pioneer Courthouse Square in order to support the protests in Turkey. Turkish flags and banners on which “Turkey, resist!” and “Portland is with you” were written were carried by the demonstrators. People shouted the slogans such as “Tayyip resign!” and “Hand in hand against fascism”. The Americans who got interested [...] → Read the full article…

Sydney, AUSTRALIA

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The Queen Victoria Building and the Circular Quay has seen citiziens of Sydney  demonstrating against the Turkish government and the police brutality againts the protests at the Gezi Park, on June 1st, 2013. Protesters supported the resisting people of Turkey with slogans such as “Everywhere Taksim, everywhere resistance!” and “Tayyip will come to our terms!”. Protests in Sydney spread to [...] → Read the full article…