Tag Archives: Diren Türkiye

The Guardian: Erdoğan’s chief adviser knows what’s behind Turkey’s protests – telekinesis

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From Lufthansa to the CIA, Turkey’s government has come up with some worrying conspiracy theories to explain Gezi Park It has to be said that when the Turkish government began to flail around for the “real reasons” behind the Gezi protests, their initial conspiracy theories lacked imagination – the CIA, Europeans jealous of their economic success, unspecified foreign forces in [...] → Read the full article…

The Economist: The aftermath of the unrest in Turkey – Tear gas as a dangerous weapon

The Economist July 5 2013

THE mass anti-government demonstrations that have rocked Turkey over the past month are dying down and only now is the full horror of police abuse against protestors beginning to emerge. Human-rights groups say the use of tear gas as a weapon marks a new chilling trend among Turkey’s notoriously nasty riot police. Hasan Kilicgedik, a thirty-year-old Kurd, was among the [...] → Read the full article…

We were detained and able to return home after three days

On July 19th at 7 PM, we were released from Caglayan Courthouse. Police attack at Gazi Park on Saturday night included use of acidified water cannon in front of Divan Hotel against peaceful visitors of the park. Furthermore, the police fired pepper gas and tear gas bombs at at masses of protesters who responded to police violence in front of [...] → Read the full article…

Police attacked murderously

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  Voilent police interventions attempted to suppress the demonstrations that  started in Gezi Park and  spread over the whole country. Despite the threat by the government saying “If the park is not evacuated, what is required will be done”, the citizens did not give up their struggle and did not leave the park.   The police intervention to evacuate the park on [...] → Read the full article…

MD. Savas Comlek: “ It is not possible to describe with words what happened at Gezi on the night of June 11”

We talked with one of the Yesil Gazete editors,  Dr. Savas Comlek,  about the infirmaries in the park and what happenned during his detention. He was taken into custody on June 16 and released the same day, How did you become involved with the Gezi Parki protests? I want to live in a better city. In recent years, the city [...] → Read the full article…

Greenpeace: Gezi Park: A historic defence of democracy

“Find out just what people will submit to and you have found out 
the exact amount of injustice and wrong that will be imposed upon them.” Frederick Douglass, American ex-slave civil rights leader. The citizens of Istanbul now appear in control of Gezi Park, protecting one of the last and most treasured green spaces in Istanbul from conversion to a [...] → Read the full article…

If you shut up at this moment you either become slaves or die.

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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…

Do not despair and remain hopeful

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Duran Akbas, who was seriously wounded when shot by the police yesterday, is still in the intensive care unit after surgery. He has not yet woken up and is in a critical condition. It is said that his survival is nearly a miracle. We have not lost hope, just as we have not lost hope since Mayday for Dilan, Meral [...] → Read the full article…