http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxGFk-AmIX4 It is the 22nd of June 2013. While reporting on protests in Ankara, Turkey my cameraman and I are shot by a police water cannon. With my back to the police vehicle and the light on our camera on I do not believe the police could not have seen we were media doing our … 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
Before the intervention: After… Protesters gather in Istanbul’s Taksim Square with carnations in hand Hundreds of protesters gathered today in Istanbul’s Taksim Square, a week after the police cleared Gezi Park after a muscled crackdown. via @xeciiyan Turkish Foreign Ministry hold talks with German ambassador amid EU row German Ambassador Pohl held talks today with Turkish Foreign … 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
Turkey?s traditional problems and Prime Minister Erdoğan The government is trying to deal with historically bequeathed traditional problems Peace bid in deadlock, BDP warns The peace process, an initiative launched by the Turkish government to find a solution. Government must come to its senses, BDP co-chair Demirtaş says BDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş warns the … 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
Direnen Ankara öğrencilerinin provokatörler ve marjinal gruplar eşliğinde hazırladığı Dış Mihrak destekli video çalışmasıdır. “Bu panoyu ben kırdım!” A few more videos from 18 June 2013 Police violence in Ankara: 37.00 dan itibaren toma nın gelişi ve insanların etrafının sarılışı http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/34506381 1 dakikalık devamı http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/34507965 Kuğulu’ya ulaşan kameramanın olayı özeti http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/34508181 Geride kalıp dayak … Read more
English translations added in the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PSAu-e_pnI
Turkey’s ‘standing people’ protest spreads amid Erdoğan’s crackdown Protesters turn to passive resistance after four people die in Erdoğan’s brutal response to Taksim Square demonstration Lunchtime in the waterfront district of Beşiktaş in Istanbul on Tuesday and Ismail Orhan has been standing silently under a yellow parasol in the blistering heat for more than four hours. … Read more
17 June 2013. This young man is standing in front of Atatürk Cultural Center in Taksim Square since 20:30. It is now 23:40…
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
However, AKP is organizing two major rallies in Ankara and İstanbul this weekend. In this evening’s Ankara rally, PM Erdoğan repeated the same lies about the Occupiers,already debunked accusations and relied heavily to play with AKP voters’ religious sensitivities. I do not exaggarate, in my life, I have never seen such crude and intense exploitation … Read more
Referandum : Ara sandık Referandumu Başbakan?ın geri adımı olarak yorumlayan var ki doğru. Ama parkı boşaltmanın gerekçesi haline gelme riski var. Ayrıca anayasal açmazı gözden kaçırmamak lâzım. Keza İstanbul çapında bir kentte Gezi çapında bir alan için yapılmış bir emsali dünyada yok. Ama meselenin özü başka. Referandum ile kamu otoritesi tarafından daha önce alınmış bir … Read more
Many injured as police enter Taksim Square to ‘clear banners’ Riot police entered Taksim Square, where Gezi Park protests are continuing, around 7.30 a.m Protesters? platform calls for meeting at Gezi this evening The Taksim Solidarity Platform, an initiative organized to prevent a development project in Istanbul?s Taksim Gezi Park BDP and Turkish flags together: Anyone Remember … Read more
I am interviewed here in Voice of Russia (English), Rusyanın Sesi (Turkish) by @omerurun 4 June Taksim Square. Occupiers caught in crime: Doing Yoga This is how barricades are made: A u-turn in Turkish politics? Gezi Park in perspective The simmering dissent and dissatisfaction unleashed at Gezi Park may not be enough to topple AKP‘s … Read more