Update 02:44 a.m. There are reports that security forces have made arrest at night in Hopa. Here is a video in which Metin Lokumcu can be seen… Increasingly tense AKP government triggers more and more police brutality towards protestors. Before PM Erdoğan’s election rally, protestors clashed with police. A retired teacher, Metin Lokumcu died of … Read more
Of course, it is not nice. In a human sense. Nor the reactions are nice. The PM and others are not showing the same level of negative reaction to recently increasing police brutality. Moreover, citizens of this country witnessed several times police officers not behaving nice to deputies. In terms of deep state, bureacrats were … Read more
via I woke up to learn that popular music service Fizy.com is banned due to copyright issues. MÜYAP, a copyright violation hunter, is behind it. News in Turkish here. a discussion in Friendfeed here. http://twitter.com/tinca/statuses/19736397254492160 http://twitter.com/SenolEfendi/statuses/19731607174774784 Saturday Mothers to raise issue of missing persons again Today’s Zaman The Saturday Mothers decided to accelerate their efforts … Read more
I wonder if some of our freedom loving citizens were that sensitive for the stone throwing Kurdish kids. I witness an alliance between gauchist Turkish groupuscules and mainstream opposition parties and citizens against the government. Probably these groupuscules are enjoying their time as they could never get that much media attention if times were different. … Read more