“As the equipment was entrusted to me, I couldn’t just leave them there. I was made a direct target,” says Muharrem Dalsüren, who lost one of his eyes by a gas bomb fired by the police in Ankara. Muharrem Dalsüren, a sanitation employee for the Çankaya Municipality, lost an eye after gas bombs were shot by the police while he [...] → Read the full article…
A YTU Professor and his student from the same university lost their eyes during events that began on October 27th. Dr. Burak Ünveren, a research assistant at YTU (Yildiz Technical University), and Selim Polat, a student from YTU, got wounded by tear-gas canisters and rubber bullets. Mr. Ünveren, 31, got injured in his left eye during the intervention by riot [...] → Read the full article…
A group of about 200 demonstrators marched on the Antalya headquarters of the ruling AK Party on Saturday evening, The headquarters, located on the main street (Gazi Bulvarı) was attacked with Molotov cocktails and stones. Riot police responded with high pressure water canons and tear gas. In the battle ensuing, Vedat Oğuz received a direct hit to his eye and [...] → Read the full article…
A security guard, for almost 13 years leaves his workplace; Mimar Sinan University on Saturday morning 1st of June 2013, to go home. He gets stuck between police forces and the resisters nearby Yıldız Technical University. He raises his hands and asks for permission to pass saying; “ I am also in public service and I am going home”. [...] → Read the full article…
Here, you are looking at the wounds a protester acquired during the police violence. Riot police aimed and fired at people. The tear-gas canister just scraped off legs of this protester in Taksim. He had jeans on, so he felt only a slight burn on his legs. At first, there was no pain or visible holes in his pants. But, [...] → Read the full article…
“I was there in the Çağlayan Courthouse in today’s riot. What started as a simple press release, turned into something else and here are some of the incidents that happened right before my eyes: “RIOT” security guards that built a wall of flesh, looked at us from a meter’s distance and said, “If you come any closer we will knock [...] → Read the full article…
“Ali İsmail Korkmaz, a 19 year old first year university student at A.Ü, suffered a brain hemorrhage in the early hours of Monday morning (on 02.06.2013, day 3 of the Gezi Park protests) after receiving several blows to the head from a small group of thugs. The incident happened in one of the side streets off of Yunus Emre Street, [...] → Read the full article…
Lobna Allami, hit in the head by a gas bomb capsule on the 31st of May during the police attack on Taksim Gezi Parki, has been struggling to stay alive over the past 12 days. Ismail Saymaz, a reporter from the newspaper Radikal, spoke to Fatin, Allamii’s sister. Fatin began working in the music industry after completing her university education [...] → Read the full article…
AKP is attacking brutally again. Evren Kose is in critical condition! As supporter’s of AKP were taking down banners this morning, tens of protestors were injured. Among the injured, Evren Kose is in critical condition. AKP is attacking once more to kill. During the violent police attack, Evren Kose was seriously injured. Following government orders, the police attacked on Taksim. [...] → Read the full article…
They barricaded the Barbaros Boulevard in Istanbul with tanks. And they were running down on people by Riot Control Vehicles and tear gas bombs from three different directions. Everybody just dispersed all over. Me and two of my friends, we took refuge in another friend’s office at the ground level. Then policemen forced into the office. Some of them were [...] → Read the full article…