Tuna Kiremitçi, a writer who is quite popular in Turkey, today tweeted sarcastically about the state of İstiklal Street, Taksim: “[on the left], how Istiklal Street was once and [on the right] its state after a nuclear war” Discover the world’s biggest tulip carpet in Turkey Created by Andrea Smith April 25, 2017 at … Read more
BBC Turkish has an image gallery of the changing silhouette. Istanbul independent film festival – !f Istanbul – on till Feb 23rd Turkish Press ISTANBUL – Independent film festival “!f Istanbul” is showing the most eclectic and edgy independent films and award-winning documentaries of Istanbul hosts movie poster exhibition Press TV Istanbul’s TÜRVAK Cinema-Theatre … Read more
Turkey needs to be ?encouraged? to reopen Halki Seminary: EU Minister EU Minister Egemen Bağış has said Turkey needs to be ?encouraged? to reopen the Greek Orthodox Halki Seminary in Istanbul ********************* Turkey may face ?tough? EU report The upcoming annual Progress Report from the European Union for Turkey is expected to be the ?toughest? yet … Read more
Hell yeah! via @onudemekistedim http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUfdD4mBiKY Police detaining a protester in Kadıköy, 10 September 2013 Kadıköy Caferağa Barlar Sokağı Polis Saldırısı I guess the angle to throw a pepper gas capsule is problematic here… This is from İzmir: Fireworks at work: The photo-Journalist and the police via @kemal_aslan (I heard that that journalist is Ahmet Şık) @AlperTurgut01 … Read more
I am switching to my Twitter account for immediate reporting… [I will tweet mostly in English] Taksim head injury in Taksim. Antakya Occupiers occupy the boat from Kadıköy to Karaköy Kadıköy
An MEP, Ertuğrul Kürkçü was also injured by the police intervention in Taksim tonight… All photos from Istanbul Riot police resort to tear gas to quell ‘justice marchers’ hoping to make statement at Gezi Park Riot police in Istanbul intervened once more against a Gezi demonstration, including three young protesters who had traveled to Istanbul on … Read more
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLVc4zXPIRU This video is shot at Talimhane, Taksim
[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
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
Başta Erdoğan olmak üzere AKP apolojistleri ısrarla dış kaynak ya da örgütlü güçler iddiasında bulunsalar da Gezi direnişinin özünde yer alan vatandaşların sivilliği ve örgütsüzlüğü gayet açıktır. Eminim istihbarattan anlayan çevreler de bunun farkındadır zaten. Örgütlü güçler lafını açayım. Bir önceki yazıda bahsettiğim gibi Gezi direnişini bireysel katılımlar ve sivil toplum güçleri beraber gerçekleştirdi. Yani … Read more
Turkey Is Now Arresting Dozens for Using Twitter Turkey Is Now Arresting Dozens for Using Twitter Third person killed in Turkey protests Ethem Sarısülük, a Turkish activist who was wounded in the head during Taksim Gezi Park clashes. Twitter detainees in Turkey protests all ?young kids,? says opposition member Twenty-nine people detained overnight in the Aegean province of … Read more
to be updated during the day… Pro goverments thugs attack protestors in Tophane, İstanbul Police detaining an activist A Duman song made up of images. Activists pepper-gassed in İstiklal A good summary from BBC Activists chanting “Sık bakalım, sık bakalım… Okan Bayülgen after pepper-gassed From the İstiklal Street Demonstrators passing the Bosphorus Bridge on foot…
I haven’t expected such a long protest. This is the fourth day. It all started in Gezi Parkı, Taksim by some NGO activists. I don’t think much would happen if police would not intervene harshly. Now thousands awake protesting not only in Istanbul but even in other cities… Interesting… What I see is people are … Read more
As of 31 May 2013 17:25 all TTs are political. 7 of them are pro-Occupy and 2 of them are pro-AKP, anti-Occupy, 1 Nationalist tending to be pro-Occupy