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Hurriyet Daily News: Over 1,200 hospitalized during Gezi protests, Turkish health ministry says

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In a bid to show that it was well focused on developments concerning the Gezi Park protests, the Health Ministry has announced that 535 people in Istanbul and 1,223 people throughout Turkey were transferred to the hospitals, over the period of a month during the unrest. The Health Ministry cited these numbers to highlight that it had closely followed these [...] → Read the full article…

What is happening in Istanbul?: International intellectuals call on the Turkish government to desist from its repression of popular protest

We deplore the recent crackdown of the Turkish government on its own citizens, the clearly unjustified use of tear gas, acts of force, gas canisters and smoke bombs that have resulted in a vast number of injuries, imperiling the lives of those who seek to exercise their basic freedoms of assembly and protest.  This assault of the Turkish government on [...] → Read the full article…