İstanbul Taksim Streets yesterday… Turkish magazine releases ?Gezi Park? issue online after disbanding Recently folded history magazine NTV Tarih has uploaded its last issue online, one week after NTV?s owners disbanded the publication here is the website: www.yasarkenyazilantarih.com(Written history while it?s still living). Municipality skips tent plans, settles for iftar tables at Gezi Park Istanbul?s … Read more
Excessive use of force during Gezi protests should be punished: Council of Europe The Council of Europe commissioner has said the excessive use of force during the Gezi protests should not go unpunished Istanbul’s Gezi Park closed to public again hours after official opening Taksim Gezi Park, which has become the heart of the anti-government … Read more
[All photos are by Arzu Geybullayeva] #occupygezi through the lens of a foreigner I moved to Istanbul in 2007. The largest form of protest I witnessed back then was the march organized to protest the death of an editor and chief of weekly Armenian paper- AGOS. Never did it cross my mind that only few years later I am going to be … Read more
Ruling party MPs walk out of US reception over envoy?s critical Gezi remarks The AKP lawmakers reacted against the ambassador Ricciardone for his highly political remarks over the three-week long Gezi Parkı demonstrations Generation Gap: Turkish Family Split Between Gezi and Old Way By Özlem Gezer in Istanbul AFP The rift currently dividing Turkey also runs right … Read more
Istanbul court rejects ministry?s appeal to suspend Gezi redevelopment, pending definitive ruling An administrative court which had suspended the redevelopment plans of Gezi Park late May, has rejected today a government appeal against the ruling Brazilian Tear Gas Used Against Turkish Protesters [All links lead to sites in Portuguese unless specified otherwise. At the time … Read more
Columnists fired as daily Akşam gets new chief At least four columnists have been fired so far from Turkish daily Akşam, days after Mehmet Ocaktan was assigned as the editor-in-chief NTV Tarih, Popular History Magazine, Closed The administration of NTV Tarih, a popular history magazine in Turkey, closed down the publication as it was preparing … Read more
Two wise men refuse to attend meeting with Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan because of Gezi unrest Wise men Professor Baskın Oran and columnist Murat Belge.. ************** One arrested in southeastern Turkey rape case One suspect was arrested for charges related to the rape of a sixteen year-old. Turkish police detain 20 alleged protesters during raids … Read more
People were eating out in this street: via @castrobey Zambak Sokak, Istiklal Street: via @149Journos Taksim Square after the police attack: İstiklal Street: via @BaranBinboga In Asmalımescit: via @serkanaltunigne İstiklal Street: via @140Journos Cihangir: Via @MrChapullingg Earlier in the Taksim Square: via @cihankardesler Earlier this evening: via y_ozgurpolitika via @Can_Memis Turkey?s middle class taking … Read more
Istanbul mayor to ask residents about all future projects The Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality will ask the public about every major project in the city Occupy Gezi, beyond the religious-secular cleavage The protests in Turkey started on May 27 with a modest resistance movement against the destruction of Istanbul?s Gezi Park and the planned construction, in its place, … Read more
Turkish Liberals Turn Their Backs on Erdogan For an urban elite, including some protesters, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan?s response to demonstrations has led to a final break that began with his intimidation of the news media. Assemblies emerging in Turkey: a lesson in democracy | ROAR By Jerome Roos On June 19, 2013 The protesters are starting to counter-pose … Read more
15 haziran 2013 Taksim.
Abbasağa Park, Beşiktaş, 17 June 2013. Citizens’ Forum. Police is ?Working on? Twitter, Interior Minister Says Reminding that 3 policemen were suspended within an investigation and announcing today?s general strikes as ?illegal?, Interior Minister Muammer Güler said they are working on social media. Turkish trade unions call for strike Workers urged to leave jobs on Monday afternoon … Read more
I am glad that most of Occupiers decided to go back home in order to prevent provocations with these appearing thugs…. via @mkozturk Thugs With Clubs These were men who skipped AKPs peaceful celebration of its power. They were running through Asmalimescit with clubs in hand, shouting ?God is Greatest?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BSIwRoQbyw Here’s pro-AKP thugs: Here is … Read more
Turkish police hitting an headscarved protester. 16 June 2013. Istanbul Police Terror! German TV ZDF 15.06.2013 English subtitles: Arrested protesters… Turkey: Erdoğan Evicts Protesters, Brings Reinforcements to Istanbul After a night of wide-ranging violence in Istanbul, a role reversal occurred: Turkish security forces occupied Taksim Square and anti-government protesters were left on the outside looking in. … Read more
First moments of the intervention… Tayyipci et Apocu : Le tailleur d?Izmir qui aime Recep Tayyip Erdogan et le processus de paix Après la retraite à Rabat, voici le temps de la contre manifestation conservatrice et peut-être du recourt au très peu démocratique référendum (ce qui rappelle un certain Mai français.). Ce week-end, 2 grands meetings comme … Read more