Revolution News: Information for the International Community regarding an illegal highway construction in Ankara

ankarapost

We would like to give a brief summary about the recent course of events in Ankara, regarding an illegal highway construction by Metropolitan Municipality. An eight-lane highway plan, passing through the natural protected area within Middle East Technical University (METU) land, as well as conjoint neighborhoods, was put into action by Ankara Metropolitan Municipality without juridicial approval. METU community and [...] → Read the full article…

Hurriyet Daily News: ODTÜ shows no lesson learned: EU envoy

n_56600_4

ANKARA – The debate over a controversial road construction on the Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ) campus shows that “some people have not learned their lessons,” according to the outgoing EU ambassador to Turkey. “It is unfortunate that it was undertaken without waiting for the final [court] decision.,” Ambassador Jean-Maurice Ripert, Head of the Delegation of the European Union, told [...] → Read the full article…

Bianet: New Trees to Be Planted on METU Campus

metu - 2

Various groups from METU released a statement, saying that Ankara Municipality’s bulldozers committed an “unlawful environmental massacre” by cutting trees on METU campus on the night of October 18. Various groups from METU will plant trees today on METU campus after Ankara Municipality’s bulldozers cut several trees on the night of October 18. Orta Doğu Academicians Association, METU Alumni Association, [...] → Read the full article…

Hürriyet Daily News: Clashes erupt in ODTÜ campus as university returns municipality payment for removal of trees

n_56608_4

Clashes have erupted on the campus of Ankara’s Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ) between police and people gathered to protest the removal of trees for a road construction passing through the campus. The police repeatedly used tear gas to disperse crowds on the night of Oct. 21. Hundreds of protesters have been present on campus since the morning, attempting to [...] → Read the full article…

ODTÜ Rector’s Office: Violation of ODTÜ Campus on October 18th, 2013

odtu-lang-en

This statement is considered necessary in response to the popular concern of staff, press and the general public about the violation of our campus by the Ankara Metropolitan Municipality on the night of the 18th October 2013. On the 2nd October 2013, ODTÜ was notified by fax that the Ministry of Environment and Urban Planning had approved the Plan of [...] → Read the full article…

ODTÜ Statement from the Student Collectives

ODTU

The Student Collectives published a statement about the insidious assault against the ODTÜ (Middle East Technical University) on the last day of the religious festival, after midnight: This assault is not only against the trees in the ODTÜ campus but also against the University itself! We are going to resist all over Turkey! The aggressors who assaulted the ODTÜ by [...] → Read the full article…

Notes To The Future – Patti Smith


Listen my children and you shall hear the sound of your own steps, the sound of your hereafter. Memory awaits and turns to greet you, draping its banner across your wrists. Wake up arms, delicate feet. For as one to march the streets!

Poem: Patti Smith / Translation: İnan Mayıs Aru / Editing: Yağmur Telli Yücel / Graphics: Çağatay Apaydın / Music: Vladimír Godár – Záhrada VII. (Emeleia)

Footage in this film are taken from various recordings shot during Gezi Uprising and shared on the net as “Gezi Video Archives”. Thanks to all resistance cameramen.

13 October 2013

Public Seminar: Michael Hardt on Continuity and Leadership – An Interview After the Talk Turkey Conference

Michael Hardt at the Occupy Solidarity and Global Consequences panel  and here in an interview after the conference, argues that since 2011— different from previous “nomadic” global movements—these new protests have been rooted in territory, demand a new definition of publicity and commons beyond the false “public/private” separation. Furthermore, with their “multitude” form, these occupations and encampments have provided a [...] → Read the full article…

Bianet: “No Return From the Mistakes of Taksim Project”

taksim project

Issues that people are facing in the traffic or formation of little pools around Taksim area are because of the flaws of construction projects; these flaws are irreversible, Murat Ergün, professor of construction at ITU, told Bianet. Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality completed its pedestrianization project of Taksim Sqaure. Currently, the car traffic between Tarlabaşı Boulevard and Cumhuriyet Avenue is going to [...] → Read the full article…

  1. Pages:
  3. 1
  4. ...
  5. 11
  6. 12
  7. 13
  8. 14
  9. 15
  10. 16
  11. 17
  12. ...
  13. 108