Nowadays, land and inhabited spaces are images of the “money” that needs to augment itself through their use and market values. When I arrived in İstanbul, I immediately went to one of the forums held in the parks. I wanted to witness the point reached in the course of a month. The attendees’ contribution, enthusiasm, sincerity, seriousness, authenticity impressed me [...] → Read the full article…
“The resistance of revolutionaries and people will teach AKP a painful lesson” says Beycan Taşkıran, ESP Istanbul Provincial Executive, who had a rib fractured during the police attack which started on June 15th against the Gezi Park protests and who had been put in an airless jail cell for 4 days right after being detained. Beycan Taşkıran is a socialist [...] → Read the full article…
Abbasağa Park forum | Sinan Cakmak Right after the #OccupyGezi movement was ‘evicted’ from Taksim Square’s infamous Gezi Park on 15 June, thousands of people began to gather together in neighborhood forums to discuss the local and national issues directly affecting their lives. Every evening people from all walks of life come to parks around nine in the evening to [...] → Read the full article…
ISTANBUL - Police fired water cannons and tear gas at a group of demonstrators who gathered in Taksim Square to protest the violence used against a 14-year-old teenager who has been in intensive care for 46 days after being hit by a tear gas canister in Istanbul during the Gezi Park unrest. Berkin Elvan was not a protester but a by-stander [...] → Read the full article…
July 29, 2013 Media Contact – Gaye Ozpinar / Fusun H. Tufan – Tel: (641) 715- 3900 x 677028# – info@bostonbul.org July 30, 2013, 11am, State House (Room 437), 24 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts Boston, MA, July 29, 2013 – Bostonbul (www.bostonbul.org) and a panel of experts will be discussing the recent protests in Turkey with introduction from Representative Denise [...] → Read the full article…
By Yavuz Baydar Turkey needs freedom of expression more than ever. Erdoğan’s clampdown could stop dead our transition to a liberal democracy Last week I was fired from my job as independent ombudsman for the Turkish daily newspaper Sabah, following the censoring of my column. I had worked for the newspaper in this position since 2004. I had been hired [...] → Read the full article…
A young woman, who rode a bike, photographed the events helped people the during Gezi protests in Ankara on 2 June, has been beaten up by the police while eating at a cafe. She was harshly abused by the police for half an hour because she had a cycle helmet that was taken as evidence of ‘being a demonstrator’. She [...] → Read the full article…
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İstanbul – BIA News Desk Pianist Fazıl Say, signer of a letter in The Times by 30 intellectuals regarding Gezi Resistance, made a statement backing his decision to sign the letter – a declaration that AKP Vice Chairperson Hüseyin Çelik claimed to be “arrogant”. “This letter was meant to give a message. I was approached to sign the letter. I [...] → Read the full article…
It has turned out that the police, whose use of excessive power in the Gezi protests has been debated repeatedly, have started to do the courts’ jobs. Though the German citizen of Turkish origin Ekim Deniz Doğan who was arrested on July 7 was released by the court, the Public Security Branch Office (a department of the İstanbul Police Department) [...] → Read the full article…
Hello friends, comrades! First of all, I salute you with the Taksim revolts unabated excitement. As one of the captives of this revolt, I see all of your never ending determination and celebrate your courageous, honorable actions. Friends, companions, comrades! On these days, we witnessed the collapse of the wall of fear and turning to a massive movement. Taksim has been [...] → Read the full article…