Tag Archives: Ahmet Atakan

Hurriyet Daily News: Families of Gezi protests victims and injured protesters establish common association

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The families of those who lost their lives in the police crackdowns during the Gezi Park protests and those who were injured during the protests announced the establishment of a shared association on Jan. 21. The “Gezi Martyrs and Wounded Platform” was formally established following a meeting at the Istanbul Bar Association. The attendance of the elder brother of Mehmet [...] → Read the full article…

Al Monitor: Are Protests on the Rise Again in Turkey? – Orhan Kemal Cengiz

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The demonstrations that broke out across Turkey earlier this year after the police clampdown on an environmentalist protest at Istanbul’s Gezi Park came as a major sociopolitical quake for the country. The first tsunami after the big tremor is beginning to rise as street clashes spread again across Turkey over the Sept. 10 death of a 22-year-old protester in Hatay province. A [...] → Read the full article…

BirGün: My son resisted for his people

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Ahmet Atakan, using his constitutional right to protest in Hatay Armutlu, was killed after being hit on the head by a tear gas canister fired by the police at short range. His family talked to BirGün. The father Ali Atakan asks the authorities to punish the murderers of his son: “We didn’t raise these children so that the state could [...] → Read the full article…