Tag Archives: Personal Resistance Story

Türkiye’den Şiddet Hikayeleri: “I was tortured for hours, physically and psychologically”

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During the Gezi protests, the night of 2nd June, Anatolian University student Caner Ertay was subjected to police torture, first by the riot police and then by the anti-terror branch. Ertay told what happened that night to ‘Stories of Violence from Turkey’, how he was carried in the trunk of a car rom hospital to hospital. This was the same [...] → Read the full article…

A protestor’s opinions of the referendum proposal regarding Gezi Park

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First of all, I’d like to note that the following account belongs entirely to me. It doesn’t bind my friends in the resistance. I am alone and free like a tree in the forest. I find the PM’s declaration about holding a referendum on the Gezi project insufficient and disingenuous. The Gezi Park actions  began when a handful of ecologists, [...] → Read the full article…