Women are in rebellion! And you can’t stop it with gas, tanks, batons! Women are resisting along with all oppressed groups for the last two days! Workers, Kurds, LGBT’s, Alaweits, Muslims, non-Muslims, atheists and all the oppressed, exploited, insulted, constantly blamed to be the traitors are rebelling in Turkey. The resistance that started in Gezi Park in Taksim İstanbul spread [...] → Read the full article…
The protests having begun 6 days ago as a reaction to exterminating the trees at Taksim Gezi Parki and having expanded across the country are all an answer to the manipulation of the government to their lives; to the trials of the government to regulate the social life according to their own political believes; to the extermination of the whole [...] → Read the full article…
The actions initially referred to as the “Gezi Park Protests” which within a short period of time spread beyond Gezi Park and Istanbul are known to the public. The events first began in Istanbul, and later continued in Ankara, İzmir and many other cities of Turkey with widespread police violence against the protesters. Organizations sensitive to human rights focused during [...] → Read the full article…
(05.06.2013) The World Medical Association has called on the Turkish authorities to end immediately the excessive use of force against peaceful protestors and to ensure the right to freedom of expression and assembly. It has also called for an independent and impartial investigation into the excessive use of force and for officials found to have ill-treated demonstrators or other members of [...] → Read the full article…
In a written statement on the growing public resistance across the country, Kurdish Communities Union (KCK) Executive Council Presidency said the resistance has given a message for the structuring of a new democratic Turkey. KCK called on the Kurdish people to take initiative in the resistance and to take responsibility for the healthy progress of the process together with the [...] → Read the full article…
Taksim Dayanışması, a solidarity group that advocated for the preservation of Taksim Gezi Park, submitted its demands to Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç. The group demanded an official statement that confirmed the cancellation of all construction efforts in the park. Taksim Dayanışması, a solidarity group that advocated for the preservation of Taksim Gezi Park, has met with Deputy Prime Minister [...] → Read the full article…
Turkey’s prominent artists released a joint statement yesterday that condemned mainstream media censure on Gezi resistance and demanded objective coverage. Turkey’s prominent artists condemned yesterday the attitude of mainstream media towards Gezi Park resistance. “As cineasts, artists and authors of Turkey, we are condemning mainstream television and newspapers channels such as NTV, CNN Türk, Habertürk, Kanal D, ATV, Star, Show [...] → Read the full article…
Speaking about the Taksim resistance which has spread to the whole country on its eight day now, Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş commented the protest as a ‘legitimate rebellion’ against repression. Demirtaş said they stood by people’s legitimate resistance which -he said- was the only way to achieve democracy and freedom. He pointed out that protestors on [...] → Read the full article…
On May 31 2013, state power /Turkish police has used disproportionate force against citizens protesting the the government’s decision to build a shopping centre at the expense of one of Istanbul’s most famous park Gezi Park. Freedom of assembly and the right to express an opinion is a component of the constitutional and fundamental human rights and freedoms. Turkish citizens [...] → Read the full article…