Tag Archives: EVERYWHERE TAKSIM

Bianet: Ali Ismail Korkmaz Murder Suspects Charged With Life Sentence

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Prosecutors completed their indictment on Ali Ismail Korkmaz case, charging 5 individuals with life sentence for beating Kormaz to death during Gezi Resistance protests in Eskişehir. Eskişehir – BIA News Desk Prosecutors completed their indictment on Ali Ismail Korkmaz case, charging 5 individuals with life sentence for “premeditated murder” of Kormaz. According to article by Fırat Alkaç in Taraf newspaper, the [...] → Read the full article…

Jadaliyya: Self-fulfilling prophecy: understanding the uprising in Turkey – Erdem Yoruk

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For most people around the world, the recent uprising against Turkey’s ruling Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (AKP) is still a puzzle. Why did a protest over a park lead to country-wide unrest so quickly? The Turkish government has explained what happened by resorting to a conspiracy theory, referring to an international “interest-rate lobby” that planned to overthrow the government. Yet, [...] → Read the full article…

Etha: Tunç ‘Let them come and take us too’

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Haydar Tunç, who is the father of Hasan Tunç who is 20 years old and one of the arrestees of Gezi resistance, believes his son was arrested to take revenge due to the Taksim Gezi Park actions. Tunç stated: “This process is not an organizational operation process. My child is a member of a legally acknowledged party. Being a member [...] → Read the full article…

Hurriyet Daily News: Police to replace private security in public universities: Turkish PM

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Police will replace private security firms in universities, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced as a response to the Gezi Park protests, which have particularly been led by young university students. “We will place in state universities the state-owned security forces instead of private security. Seeing that there were very different things has pushed us to further responsibility,” Erdoğan [...] → Read the full article…

Radikal: Burcu Sarak tells what she’s gone through in the Gezi lockup

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Music group Grup Abdal’s singer Burcu Sarak was taken into custody on the 6th of July. Her mother was also taken into custody because she didn’t want to let the police take her daughter. Burcu Sarak tells what she has gone through in the detention house: “They made my friend strip stark naked; they insulted and swore me; they didn’t [...] → Read the full article…

T24: An Eyewitness Accounts: How Was Ali İsmail Korkmaz Beaten To Death?

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An eyewitness told the day when Ali İsmail Korkmaz was beaten to pulp. Korkmaz passed away in Eskișehir in the hospital where he was treated. The fifth fatality during the Gezi protests occurred yesterday when Ali İsmail Korkmaz passed away due to brain hemorrhage. Korkmaz, 19, was a freshman at the English Teacher Department at the Faculty of Education of [...] → Read the full article…

Hürriyet: They were trying to calm down their mothers on the phone by saying, “Don’t worry mom, I am okay,” while the doctors were suturing their heads

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We continue the testimonies of the youths: Today we talk with a daring young lawyer, a graduate of the Istanbul University, Faculty of Law. She has been part of the Gezi movement from the start both as a protester and as a lawyer. She tells us about her first-hand experience. Let’s listen to her What is your name?  – Rozerin [...] → 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…

Now Everybody Has a Story

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The course of the protests that started as a demonstration against the construction of a shopping mall in place of Gezi Park under the guise of building a replica of former Ottoman military barracks influenced people in different ways. As a Kaldıraç (a monthly revolutionary socialist magazine) poster hanging in Taksim says, “Now everyone has a resistance, solidarity and violence [...] → Read the full article…

15 June 2013 EVERYWHERE TAKSIM EVERYWHERE RESISTANCE!

This is the official announcement of Taksim Solidarity in English: Taksim Solidarity generated this announcement through meetings and forums that took long hours till the early morning. Our resistance that started in order to prevent the demolition of Gezi Park and save its trees has spread to Istanbul and to the entire country with the anger of thousands of citizens [...] → Read the full article…

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