Video from Monday’s broadcast of the Turkish quiz show “Kelime Oyunu,” or “The Word Game,” which took the current street protests in Turkey as its theme While most of Turkey’s journalists were carefully avoiding mention of the tens of thousands of protesters who poured into the streets this week, in a show of deference to the government that enraged supporters [...] → Read the full article…
Tension seemed to diminish on June 4, as the protests over the demolition of Taksim Gezi Park entered their second week, after spreading to nearly every province in Turkey. The heart of the protests in Istanbul’s Gezi Park continued in a more festive mood, a stark contrast to last week’s brutal police raids on the area. The protesters who took [...] → Read the full article…
I’ve written about the abject failure of Turkish media to adequately cover the news of the most important protests in the country since the 1980 coup. Many media outlets aired irrelevant documentaries and talk shows (talk show about legal definitions of theft, cooking shows, dolphin training, etc) while clashes spread to dozens of provinces and many neighborhoods in many major [...] → Read the full article…
25 people returning from a rally last night in Sancaktepe in support with Gezi Park demonstrations were hospitalized after being beaten up by the police. While 22 of the protesters were sent back home after being treated immediately, 3 of them who were in more serious status were referred to Kartal Research Hospital after the initial treatment in Sancaktepe District [...] → Read the full article…
Last Friday, Ali Riza Gurs, manager of a local food business, saw the number of sit-in demonstrators at an Istanbul park swell, and spotted a problem: They were hungry and thirsty and would not leave Gezi Park, which is located in the heart of Istanbul and one of the city’s few remaining green spaces, because of bulldozers waiting to raze [...] → Read the full article…
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…
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…
A young man called Abdullah Can Cömert was killed by the police in Antioch! In Antioch, the police killed Abdullah Can Cömert, 22-years-old, a member of CHP (Republican People’s Party) Antioch youth association. Abdullah Can Cömert’s corpse was brought to the Antioch State hospital. In the meantime, it is reported that about an hour prior to the killing, CHP Antioch [...] → Read the full article…
Istanbul (CNN) – A district court said it has agreed to hear a case against the rebuilding of historic barracks — a project that has been one of the catalysts for days of protests in the city, Turkey’s semi-official Anadolu news agency reported Friday. The court has ordered a temporary stop on any construction at Taksim Gezi Park, where the government [...] → Read the full article…