Category Archives: Accounts of violence

Yurt: Resisters Talk: An AKP supporter mother and a police father

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Berkay Güven is a veterinary surgeon. He is one of those who participated in Gezi resistance since Day 1. He was hit on Tuesday, June 11. He was taken into intensive care unit with suspected cerebral hemorrhage, because of the crack on his skull. After surviving the critical hours, he was taken to the service. He was able to talk during our visit but constantly [...] → Read the full article…

Please listen, hear us, and accept our existence

History is written at Gezi Park in İstanbul, in an unexpected way, at an unexpected moment and by unexpected people. And after the use of disproportionate force, the violence snowballed and spread to many cities and neighborhoods. Unbelievable things have happened. Unbelievable cases of violence took place. But what for? Wouldn’t it be nice if everything went as smooth as [...] → Read the full article…

Hürriyet: They were trying to calm down their mothers on the phone by saying, “Don’t worry mom, I am okay,” while the doctors were suturing their heads

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We continue the testimonies of the youths: Today we talk with a daring young lawyer, a graduate of the Istanbul University, Faculty of Law. She has been part of the Gezi movement from the start both as a protester and as a lawyer. She tells us about her first-hand experience. Let’s listen to her What is your name?  – Rozerin [...] → Read the full article…

Turkiye’den Siddet Hikayeleri – Dogu Eroglu: “Police intervention is not disproportionate, it is remorseless”

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The ones who flooded the streets in Ankara during Gezi Park Resistance, saw her around 4am in the morning trying to deter the police from violence, while the ones who were detained and taken to police stations got to know her while she was objecting to unlawful practices. CHP (Republican People’s Party) MP for Ankara, Aylin Nazliaka, talked to “Violence [...] → Read the full article…

Police attacked murderously

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  Voilent police interventions attempted to suppress the demonstrations that  started in Gezi Park and  spread over the whole country. Despite the threat by the government saying “If the park is not evacuated, what is required will be done”, the citizens did not give up their struggle and did not leave the park.   The police intervention to evacuate the park on [...] → Read the full article…

Police shooting again with plastic bullets

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“Police attacked again -with plastic bullets and tear gas bombs- the demonstrators who went to protest against PM Erdogan at the opening ceremony of XVII. Mediterranean Games, where Erdogan made the opening speech in Mersin,Turkey. The main government channel “TRT 1″ announced days ago that all the tickets were already sold out. Nevertheless  today, we see that many seats -nearly half of the stadium- are empty, [...] → Read the full article…

Jadaliyya: ‘All of a sudden!’: Gezi Park resistance in Ankara

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Perhaps the best words to express the beginning of the resistance in Ankara belong to the Turkish poet Orhan Veli Kanık: “Everything happened all of a sudden!” We had been following the developments in Gezi Park for four days. These developments were similar to what had happened with the Emek Movie Theater, which was constructed in 1924 and was destroyed [...] → Read the full article…

Resist Dilan!

June 16th, 2013 at 13:45 PM… The police brutally attacked people who gathered at the Güvenpark in Ankara to commemorate the death of Ethem Sarısülük (human right activist who was shot by the police during the protests and died on June 2nd, 2013). After the attack, some protesters dispersed all over the Kızılay neighborhood while others, most of whom were university [...] → Read the full article…

Resistance in Eskisehir!

“Eskişehir, 5:40 A.M…  I’ve never ever seen or experienced such a thing before. TOMAs, Riot Control Vehicles, agitated people… They even sprayed pressurized water to the third floors of apartment buildings. They fired pepper gas bombs at people. Then two TOMAs stopped and  police came out in groups of four or five. They rushed into the streets along Aytaç Avenue [...] → Read the full article…

MD. Savas Comlek: “ It is not possible to describe with words what happened at Gezi on the night of June 11”

We talked with one of the Yesil Gazete editors,  Dr. Savas Comlek,  about the infirmaries in the park and what happenned during his detention. He was taken into custody on June 16 and released the same day, How did you become involved with the Gezi Parki protests? I want to live in a better city. In recent years, the city [...] → Read the full article…