Gezi Resists: first hand account and photos: Turkish Revolution

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Gezi Resists

by selana019

ANKARA, ISTANBUL, IZMIR, OCCUPY GEZI, TURKEY, TURKISH SPRING

Gezi Resists

In #globalrevolution on 4 June 2013 at 02:35

Overlooking Taksim. Via @57UN

June 4, 0314 hrs CET

Dear people,

Throughout the afternoon barricades were reinforced in Besiktas district, not only with stones, but also with lances, Braveheart style. In Izmir massive crowds took the streets while police randomly harassed people along the seaside. On the social media CNN was ridiculed. While the international edition was broadcasting yesterday’s clashes live, the Turkish CNN broadcast a documentary on penguins.

And graffiti, for the record, “rebel so hard tayyip wanna gas me!”

At Gezi Park, medical students prepared a first aid centre, with an abundant stash of supplies. In the late afternoon, clashes were reported around the country. They were particularly heavy in Ankara, where thousands and thousands of students defied police repression. Continue reading “Gezi Resists: first hand account and photos: Turkish Revolution”

Turkey Occupyers Four Demands. Free the 900!

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4 Demands fromn Tirkish Resistance 2 June

1. THAT ALL THE ARRESED WILL BE RELEASED

2. ALL WHO LEAD THE OPRESSION AND AGRESSION TOWARDS PEACEFUL PROTESTERS WILL RESIGN

3. PROTEST BAN FOR TAKSIM AND ISTIKLAL AVENUE WILL END

4. NO MORE RIAD PLANS (TOKI-AVM-BRIDGE) IN NO CITIES Continue reading “Turkey Occupyers Four Demands. Free the 900!”

Anti-Capitalists take streets: Turkey Frankfurt Portugal Spain Greece Ireland London..Blockupy

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Turkey: Mega victory demos as killer police retreat

Anti-Capitalist protests held across Europe

Turkey, Spain, Portugal… southern Europe erupts

Posted on June 2, 2013 by admin

All across southern Europe major demonstrations have erupted. Turkey, Portugal, Spain… Elsewhere, in Germany (Frankfurt) demonstrators protesting against the European Community Bank Continue reading “Anti-Capitalists take streets: Turkey Frankfurt Portugal Spain Greece Ireland London..Blockupy”

Turkey: Mega victory demos as killer police retreat

Police retreat as protesters rally in Istanbul square

After viciously attacking peaceful protestors for 36 hours with tear gas and pepper spray to hold onto the area, Turkish police retreat as thousands of protesters pour into Istanbul’s Taksim Square….

By Guldenay Sonumut in Istanbul

Police have started withdrawing from a main Istanbul square to allow in tens of thousands of protesters campaigning against the potential construction of a shopping centre in a park.

State-run Private Dogan news agency said officers removed barricades after brief scuffles with demonstrators who hurled fireworks at them.

Riot police in Istanbul have fought running battles with thousands of people who turned out to protect a park in the city’s central Taksim Square.

Water cannon and tear gas were used as protesters tried to reach the square and the parliament building in the capital, Ankara.

It all started with a peaceful protest over plans to redevelop the Gezi Parka but it has become bigger than just an environmental protest. It is now a demonstration against the Islamist-rooted government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

First pictures, then videos of brutal police attacks on unarmed protesters in Istanbul caused the protests to spread to other cities, with riot police being deployed in Ankara overnight. Continue reading “Turkey: Mega victory demos as killer police retreat”

Brutal attack on Save Trees Demo sparks Turkey Uprising

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Turkey: Mega victory demos as killer police retreat

Police retreat as protesters rally in Istanbul square

Turkey arrests anti-government protesters

At least 60 people detained as Istanbul protest spreads to Ankara and Izmir, with tear gas sprayed and many injured.

Turkish authorities have arrested dozens of people protesting in the fiercest anti-government demonstrations the country has witnessed in years, with riot police firing tear gas on demonstrators in Istanbul and Ankara.At least 60 people were detained on Friday as they protested in Istanbul at a rally which began over the demolition of a park, but which turned into a broader protest against what they see as an increasingly authoritarian government.”The protesters are saying that this is not about trees anymore,” said Al Jazeera’s Rawya Rageh, reporting from Istanbul.

Several thousand people had attended the Istanbul protest, and there is “an assortment of tear gas cannisters everywhere” in the city’s main Taksim Square, she said. Continue reading “Brutal attack on Save Trees Demo sparks Turkey Uprising”