Tag Archives: Gezi Park

Hurriyet Daily News: Court halts prosecution of officer who shot Gezi protester due to lack of permission

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An Ankara court has stopped the prosecution process regarding the police officer who shot and killed Ethem Sarısülük during a Gezi Park protest because it does not have permission to try the officer. The Sixth Ankara Criminal Court decided to send the investigation files regarding Sarısülük’s alleged shooter, identified as A.Ş., to the prosecutor’s office for the completion of “the [...] → Read the full article…

Hurriyet Daily News: European court says Turkey must revise tear gas laws

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ISTANBUL – Turkey should readjust its legal framework regarding the use of tear gas grenades to prevent further risk of death and injury, according to a European Court of Human Rights decision. The decision came yesterday as a result of the chamber’s session on the case of Abdullah Yaşa, who had applied to the European court over his injuries caused [...] → Read the full article…

CNN International: Counter-terror police arrest dozens in Istanbul raids, Ivan Watson and Gul Tuysuz

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Istanbul (CNN) — Turkish counter-terror police launched pre-dawn raids against scores of targets across Turkey’s largest city Tuesday. At least 30 suspects were detained, Turkey’s semi-official Anatolian Agency reported, in connection with anti-government protests that erupted in Istanbul in late May. What’s driving unrest and protests in Turkey? The Turkish Interior Ministry, the Istanbul governor’s office and Istanbul police declined [...] → Read the full article…

Etha: The Police tortured for hours

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The Turkish police, who has drawn enormous reactions from the people with its actions towards the Gezi protesters, has this time, in Gazi neighborhood, tortured Semih Demir who is 18 years old . The torture has continued for hours on the street, in the forest and at the police station. Semih Demir has described what happened to ETHA: “It was [...] → 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…

FıratNews: Police terror ruins lives

The police terror, described by the PM Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as “epic”, has another one of its victims, İsmail Aslan, who is an undergraduate of philosophy at Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. Aslan, attempting to enter Taksim Square on the 6th of July upon the call for action by Gezi Solidarity Platform, got injured on his forehead by a gas-shell, [...] → Read the full article…

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…

Hürriyet: Volkan, whose eyes were cleared of metal beads

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Gezi witnessing continues with Volkan who runs a stationery store. He came to Taksim to protest against the police violence on the first day of Gezi and to support the young people. During the rioting there he was shot in the eye by a bullet fired by the police. He was operated on twice. During the second operation, his eye [...] → Read the full article…

International Federation for Human Rights: Turkey: Growing and worrying repression of protesters and civil society

Authorities failing to prosecute crimes against protesters. Following the death of a fifth protester, the FIDH deplores the response to the demonstrations that have been held throughout Turkey since 28 May. Rather than promoting reconciliation and ensuring that Turkey’s citizens are protected and freedom of speech respected, the authorities are engaging in a veritable “witch hunt” against protesters, observers and [...] → Read the full article…

The World Medical Association: End excessive force in Turkey

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By Cecile B. Wilson, MD – The President of the World Medical Association (12.07.13) The Turkish Medical Association (TMA) has drawn our attention to hundreds of cases of injury and detention following police confrontations with protestors that began in response to demonstrations in Gezi Park Istanbul May 27. The majority of those injuries according to the TMA were caused by the [...] → Read the full article…