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1 Mayıs 2012 görselleri… Labor Day Imagery in Turkey

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İstanbul’da 1915 anmaları

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Serhatcan Yurdam’dan iki derleme: Taksim’de 1915 Ermeni Soykırımı Anması ************* İnsan Hakları Derneği’nden Anma Etkinliği: “1915 Soykırımı İnsanlık Suçudur”  

!f Istanbul, heavy on politics, has started.. an Istanbul news roundup…

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In Istanbul, a Film Festival Is Heavy on Politics – NYTimes.com official site here !f Istanbul opens with a documentary on nature from Hurriyet Daily News Istanbul Independent Film Festival opened with the screening of ?If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth… Istanbul Biennial announces curator from Hurriyet Daily News The 13th Istanbul … Read more

the 5th year of the assassination: EFD Special coverage for Hrant Dink March from Taksim to Agos daily headquarters #hrantdink

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Both in English and Turkish I will try to cover the march that is to begin at 13 at Taksim Square in Istanbul… Check out increasing number of  links at this post. To begin with: * Sinan Kızılkaya: HRANT?IN ve DEVLETİN HAKKI #hrantdink * Taksim?de toplanma başladı? #kardesimsinhrant * Yürüyüş başladı, twitter mesajları, görüntüleri? #kardesimsinhrant @hrantdink * with the … Read more

NOW: Reports of police violence against pro-Hatip Dicle protesters in Taksim

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Higher Election Council (YSK) cancelled the MP status of pro-Kurdish BDP candidate Hatip Dicle yesterday. Since then BDP fans are protesting. As of 19, there started a march in Taksim and there are reports of police brutality and despite that protests continue. I will collect twitter reports here: https://twitter.com/#!/theserendipity/status/83582986561396736 https://twitter.com/#!/theserendipity/status/83581837481488384 https://twitter.com/#!/organiktus/status/83581975109173249 https://twitter.com/#!/ASLIERDAL/status/83574722046078976 https://twitter.com/#!/nianerten/status/83576256066621441 https://twitter.com/#!/_chiquitita_/status/83575429277040640 https://twitter.com/#!/_chiquitita_/status/83573782245154816 … Read more

Explosion in Taksim Square. 32 wounded…

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Intentional or not, earlier explosion saved lives. Taksim Square is always a crowded place in most of the hours of the day. Sunday early morning hours were probably the least crowded time. Most of Turkish media quickly blamed PKK and a group inside that organization may really be responsible but we do not know yet. … Read more

I don’t think Israel* will get away with this massacre, not this time…

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* I previously used “Zionist entity” just to state my anger by using the Islamic resistance rhetoric but a German friend of mine sort of persuaded me about possible anti-Semitic connotations and I now decide to switch back to normal coverage. Wikipedia entry on Zionist Entity does not explicitly imply anti-Semitic usage of the term … Read more

Labor day special: Back to Taksim square since the bloody 1 May 1977 Labor day…

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[I would advise my readers to check back this post frequently] update: 3 May 2010- 13:00 Famous actors Halil Ergün, Cem Özer, Tarık Akan had also attended the event. Habervesaire has published a good photo galery here. Another gallery here. Turkish Anarchists’ photos here. Linux users were there, too: “Free Software for a Free World” … Read more

Erkan's live from the World Bank/ IMF meetings

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A live coverage from the inside and a post to be updated continously- updates just below the photo

A new turn in Erkan's Field Diary history. Receiving official invitation to press room...
A new turn in Erkan's Field Diary history. Receiving official invitation to press room...

The Meetings has an officially blog-style site for photos, videos and other informative stuff.

Information about the World Bank meetings and events

In the opening talk, Mr. Erdoğan also hinted at protests outside underlining the fact that global economic life is hard and protests are not totally unjustified. Protests in Taksim, very close to meeting center. I have now a post on protest roundup.  And all other media roundup on meetings updated in yet another post.

Glad to make it to the press room with his Lamb of God sweatshirt, unshaved face and hangover mood; not stopped by police for being a potential protester.
Policemen around were very polite maybe because of I did conform the image of an ordinary journalist. Private security guards are less polite by the way. Towards the evening, I had one or two occasions where I had to threaten back because of the latters’ rudeness. (But of course, policemen vs. protesters is another case)

Erkan's live from the World Bank/ IMF meetings- Protests roundup

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last update: 8 October

This might the coolest action in protests. The protester throws a firework through a pipe to a police helicopter.

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