Symbolically crushing: “Police who sprayed Gezi’s ‘woman in red’ ordered to plant 600 trees” A social fabric roundup…

Police who sprayed Gezi’s ‘woman in red’ ordered to plant 600 trees A police officer that gained notoriety for spraying pepper spray at ‘woman in red’ has been sentenced to 20 months in jail and ordered to plant 600 trees Turkish policeman sentenced to plant trees for teargas attack on woman in red  World news: Turkey | … Read more

Spirit of Occupy Gezi haunts Turkey’s authoritarian regime in its second anniversary.

Taksim Square and Gezi Park closed on Gezi anniversary Taksim Square and Gezi Park, in addition to numerous other roads and streets, have been closed to the public on the second anniversary of the anti-government Gezi protests which spread across Turkey And He is scared, getting angrier, helpless and his rhetoric increasingly paranoid, not to mention baseless…: … Read more

In the 2nd anniversary, a massive painting in tribute to Occupy Gezi launched in Karaköy, İstanbul

News in Turkish here Taksim Solidarity: We’re Everywhere on 2nd Anniversary of Gezi Park Resistance 2nd anniversary of Gezi Park Resistance will be commemorated on May 31 inGezi Park at 13 a.m. There will be meetings for Gezi in Beşiktaş and Kadıköy districts of İstanbul at 15 a.m Bianet :: English Right groups call to mark … Read more

#GeziyiUnutma- For the 2nd Anniversary A Playlist on #OccupyGezi

An unfortunate moment for the pro-AKP TV channel: University choir makes surprise reference to #OccupyGezi on TV

Alkışlar sana Boğaziçi Caz Korosu. NTV'de Çapulcu musun :)) Susturamayacaksınız #DirenGeziParkı pic.twitter.com/ilV7AdENmy — tuyocu (@tuyocu) May 19, 2015 VIDEO: University choir makes surprise reference to Gezi on TV Members of the Boğaziçi University Jazz Choir changed a song’s finale, adding reference to the Gezi protests during their performance on NTV’s special broadcast for the May 19 … Read more

A Documentary about #OccupyGezi w subtitles: “Cennetin Düşüşü” (The Fall Of Heaven)

  Published on May 7, 2015 “Adalet Cennetin Düşüşüyle Gerçekleşsin!” Haziran 2013’te Gezi Parkı’nda başlayıp tüm Türkiye’ye yayılan Gezi Direnişi’ni ve adalet talebini anlatıyor. Cennetin Düşüşü toplu gösterimlerin ve festivallerin ardından, ücretsiz olarak kanalımızda yayında. View image | gettyimages.com English:  The biggest and the most everlasting protest movement against the government’s neoliberal policies in Turkey … Read more

MTV Documentary: Rebel Music | Turkey: Flowers of Gezi Park (Full Episode) | #OccupyGezi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grcse_8GYIk   Published on Apr 30, 2015 Watch as the band Tahribad-ı İsyan wields hip-hop as a beacon of truth, journalist Gökhan Biçici reveals the country’s realities despite being beaten and arrested, and Juliana Gözen raises her voice on campus and in the streets fighting for women’s rights.

Among a few rare good news, “All Defendants Acquit from Taksim Solidarity Case

All Defendants Acquit from Taksim Solidarity Case Bianet :: English All defendants has acquitted from the “Taksim Solidarity” Case, in which 26 people were tried. Court acquits 26 Gezi protesters, including Taksim Solidarity Platform members An Istanbul court on April 29 acquitted 26 people, including prominent members of the Taksim Solidarity Platform, who had been detained during … Read more

25 Mart #MehmetAyvalıtaş Davası

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Facebook continues to protect a Facebook Page that supports police brutality in Turkey

The page has been created to support Ahmet Şahbaz, a policeman who has killed Ethem Sarısülük during Occupy Gezi. A video quiet explicitly shows how Mr. Şahbaz aimed and shot Ethem Sarısülük. Many complained about the page but that’s the answer Facebook gives. The page not only supports Ahmet Şahbaz but gives support to other … Read more

Another scandal of AKP Justice: Çarşı Football Fans on Trial for ‘Coup’ today.

Turkey: Football Fans on Trial for ‘Coup’ | Human Rights Watch www.hrw.org/news/2014/12/15/turkey–football–fans–trial–coup 4 hours ago – (Istanbul) – The prosecution of 35 football fans on coup-plot charges is a blatant misuse of the criminal justice system. The trial of supporters of Beşiktaşfootball club, associated with its Çarşı fan group, began Çarşı davasında ilk duruşma dfae

Ayşe Özer: BİR DERDİM VAR BİN DERMANA DEĞİŞMEM #CarsıYanlızDeğildir

BİR DERDİM VAR BİN DERMANA DEĞİŞMEM Ahir ömrümüzün en güzel Haziran’ının hemen ertesinde bir 2 Temmuz mitingiydi. Mitingin bitişinde Ankara’da Ziya Gökalp Caddesinde yolu trafiğe açan Çevik Kuvvetin Çarşı’nın cıvıltılarını duyduğu andaki tepkisi şuydu: “Amirim Çarşı gelmiş, ne yapalım, trafiği tekrar kapatalım mı? Bize destek kuvvet, acil!” Ethem’in vurulduğu yere gitmeye çalışan kitleye izin vermeye … Read more

A pro-AKP columnist attempts to exploit #Ferguson and Louis Fishman (@Istanbultelaviv) corrects…

Ceren Kenar was quick to use Ferguson riots to whitewash AKP’s response to Occupy Gezi… Gezi and Ferguson: A Reply to Ceren Kenar Ever since Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson, Turkish pro-government press has been quick to highlight injustices carried out by that city’s police department and lack of due process in the case. … Read more

The moment Berkin Elvan was killed by police…

  Berkin Elvan – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Berkin Elvan (January 5, 1999 – March 11, 2014) was a 15-year-old Turkish boy who was hit on the head by a tear-gas canister fired by a police officer in .

New Gezi Park crisis simmering While Turkish intel, security to get exclusive authority on personal data…

Artillery Barracks project in Gezi Park back on municipal agenda Istanbul Municipality has again included a controversial construction project on the site of Gezi Park Turkey to go ahead with Istanbul park plan Aljazeera.com Turkish authorities have said they intend to go ahead with the redevelopment ofIstanbul’s Gezi Park, the same project that spurred deadly nationwide … … Read more