The Wall Street Journal summarises the 'new reason' for protesting for Turkish people. The news can also be seen at Wall Street Journal's web page.
Showing posts with label Resistance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Resistance. Show all posts
8/08/2013
7/26/2013
More than 4000 academics around the world have signed a petition to protest police brutality
On July 19th a petition was signed by academics to call upon Turkish Government to to obey international law in the treatment of protesters and those providing medical treatment to them
'Doctors and nurses treating patients affected by tear gas and other police brutality, as well as the Istanbul Medical Chamber General Secretary, have been apprehended by police a clear violation of customary international and human rights law . More than 4000 academics around the world have already signed a petition to protest the police brutality. We call upon the Turkish government to obey international law in the treatment of protesters and those providing medical treatment to them, and to start a good-faith dialogue with the protest movement.'
Unfortunately the police brutality still continues all around Turkey
Turkey Must End Violent response to Protests Science Mag
'Doctors and nurses treating patients affected by tear gas and other police brutality, as well as the Istanbul Medical Chamber General Secretary, have been apprehended by police a clear violation of customary international and human rights law . More than 4000 academics around the world have already signed a petition to protest the police brutality. We call upon the Turkish government to obey international law in the treatment of protesters and those providing medical treatment to them, and to start a good-faith dialogue with the protest movement.'
Unfortunately the police brutality still continues all around Turkey
Turkey Must End Violent response to Protests Science Mag
7/25/2013
Artists and Scholars Send a Letter to Turkish PM to Support Protesters in Turkey
'Artists and scholars, including celebrities known for their activism, such as Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon, Ben Kingsley and movie director David Lynch, have condemned the Turkish authorities’ heavy-handed crackdown on the Gezi Park protests in Turkey in a full-page letter published July 24 in the British broadsheet The Times and addressed to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. '
Penn, Sarandon and intellectuals condemn Gezi crackdown in letter addressed to Turkish PM
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| Letter to the Prime Minister of Turkey |
7/23/2013
The overseas interest has waned but what is happening in Turkey and did the protests really come to an end?
Turkish protests haven't ended since the first day they started. They have changed forms and the protestors came up with many creative ways to continue their protests. I will share a photo journal about the days that passed but in the mean time you may read the article -published at Guardian- from here.
6/25/2013
Susan Sarandon Supports Turkish Resistance
Susan Sarandon offers her support to Amnesty’s Campaign on Turkey
In her letter she says ' Since the clashes in Taksim Square began on May 28, Turkish police have used shocking levels of force to disperse peaceful protestors. Despite harsh international criticism, Turkish authorities have failed to step in to curb police abuse and help their own citizens
Thousands of activists have been injured and unjustly imprisoned.
Over the weekend, police were seen firing tear gas directly at makeshift hospitals and detaining doctors and other medical personnel who were treating injured protestors. Recently, just as scores of lawyers were preparing to make a statement about the protests, they were arrested. People have also been detained simply for posting protest information on social media.
This must stop now.'
6/24/2013
Brasilian and Turkish protestors continue supporting each other, Meanwhile Erdogan spreads his fury over Brasilians too!
The protestors from two countries - Brasil & Turkey' understand and support eachothers' similiar causes which are demands like 'No corruption', 'Transperency of the government' and ' Freedom of Speech'.
In the meantime Turkish Prime Minister extended his uncontainable fury to 'Brasilian protestors'. According to yesterday's article at Bloomberg.com, Erdogan likens Turkish and Brasilian protestors and says “Right now, the same game is being played in Brazil'.
In the meantime Turkish Prime Minister extended his uncontainable fury to 'Brasilian protestors'. According to yesterday's article at Bloomberg.com, Erdogan likens Turkish and Brasilian protestors and says “Right now, the same game is being played in Brazil'.
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| Photo published by BBC Turkce 'A Brasilian Protestor kisses a Turkish Flag' |
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| Poster designed by Brasilians in support of Turkish Resistance |
6/21/2013
Occupy Taksim - Stockholm flashmob
Occupy Taksim - Stockholm flashmob
I like it towards the last quarter of the clip. It shows that this mob has a reason to make music.
And btw have a look at all the berries they are selling in Stockholm at the moment. ;)
Based on music made during protests
The original song with a wonderful summary of past 23 days in Turkey
The lyrics say ' This is just the beginning, the struggle continues'
And in the metro...
6/20/2013
'Duran adam' inspires silent protest all around Turkey
"On Sunday I felt a big blank. What should we do next?" said 32-year-old Ilker Gumus, an industrial engineer, referring to last weekend's clashes around Gezi Park and Taksim Square that were among the fiercest so far.
"I was a bit pessimistic at first. I thought, 'This is over.' But then the 'Standing Man' came along in Taksim and I said 'Yes, we will go on!'."
"I was a bit pessimistic at first. I thought, 'This is over.' But then the 'Standing Man' came along in Taksim and I said 'Yes, we will go on!'."
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| Silent Protest - Call for finding a spot to resist |
6/17/2013
Saturday night in Istanbul
My heart is totally with all the anti government protestors' in Turkey. Despite the fact that they have been violently attacked by police many times they have been keeping their protests to only peaceful means. Please read on for an insiders details.
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i cried quietly on the boat over to taksim tonight. having spent a few hours earlier today in gezi park, strolling around and chatting with the folks gathered there, i was struggling to understand the inhumanity of the police attack on such a peaceful demonstration.
by the time we had docked in kabataş, my sadness and confusion had turned to anger, and i was eager to climb the hill and stand sho...ulder to shoulder with friends and strangers against this brutality. an avowed pacifist, i knew i would throw no stones, i would go on no offensive. my only intention was to demonstrate my human right to stand in solidarity, to chant slogans, to clap my hands in the air, to peacefully protest.
we gathered on sıraselviler blvd in cihangir. quite a few yards ahead was one of the police's water cannons, but we reasoned that we were in a safe place, along the route the ambulances take in and out of taksim square. (indeed, we stopped our chanting every few minutes to cheer on the brave EMTs as they shuttled the injured out of harm's way and to the hospitals. sadly, there were so many ambulances - going back and forth, empty and then full - that i easily lost count.) there were rumors of clashes in harbiye and that the police were coming up from both sides of istiklal. but things felt relatively calm where we stood, like we had found the one safe public space in the entire area in which we could peacefully protest.
but we were wrong. before long, and without provocation, the tear gas came, raining down on us. the crowd responded as usual: calling out 'slowly' and 'don't run' and walking calmly but relatively quickly to try to get clear of the police attack without causing a stampede ahead. but the police didn't want us to react calmly. before we knew it, the water cannons were on our backs and noise bombs flashing to our sides. but remarkably - incomprehensibly - no matter how fast we ran, we couldn't seem to get clear of them. they were literally chasing us - a group of peaceful protesters trying our very best to show (by running away) that we meant no harm. but they meant harm. they intended not only to scare us but also to injure us, whether by hitting us with pressurized water or tear gas canisters, or by causing the exact stampede we were trying so hard to avoid.
i cried quietly on the boat home from taksim tonight. something in me felt broken. call me naive if you'd like, but i'm not sure i believed something like this existed before tonight, before i saw it for myself. violence in the face of non-violence. the absence of a public space to express our collective yet peaceful discontent. the disrespect one human can show another when they refuse to recognize that they are, in essence, equals.
i am struggling tonight to hold onto the beauty and signs of collective strength i have witnessed during these past weeks - the solidarities formed in gezi park, on the streets of istanbul, and all across social media platforms. i still want to believe in the basic goodness of humanity. but something in me broke tonight. and so i know this night will be a dark one in my personal history; and i worry that it will be a dark night in turkey's history as well.
non-turkish and non-turkish-speaking friends: if you haven't already done so, please take the time to educate yourselves about the situation here. take the time to contact your local consulates and elected representatives to demand that somebody be held accountable for this unwarranted violence. demand that there be public spaces in which people can come together to peacefully protest. demand that human rights - nay, human decency - be respected. we need your help.
by the time we had docked in kabataş, my sadness and confusion had turned to anger, and i was eager to climb the hill and stand sho...ulder to shoulder with friends and strangers against this brutality. an avowed pacifist, i knew i would throw no stones, i would go on no offensive. my only intention was to demonstrate my human right to stand in solidarity, to chant slogans, to clap my hands in the air, to peacefully protest.
we gathered on sıraselviler blvd in cihangir. quite a few yards ahead was one of the police's water cannons, but we reasoned that we were in a safe place, along the route the ambulances take in and out of taksim square. (indeed, we stopped our chanting every few minutes to cheer on the brave EMTs as they shuttled the injured out of harm's way and to the hospitals. sadly, there were so many ambulances - going back and forth, empty and then full - that i easily lost count.) there were rumors of clashes in harbiye and that the police were coming up from both sides of istiklal. but things felt relatively calm where we stood, like we had found the one safe public space in the entire area in which we could peacefully protest.
but we were wrong. before long, and without provocation, the tear gas came, raining down on us. the crowd responded as usual: calling out 'slowly' and 'don't run' and walking calmly but relatively quickly to try to get clear of the police attack without causing a stampede ahead. but the police didn't want us to react calmly. before we knew it, the water cannons were on our backs and noise bombs flashing to our sides. but remarkably - incomprehensibly - no matter how fast we ran, we couldn't seem to get clear of them. they were literally chasing us - a group of peaceful protesters trying our very best to show (by running away) that we meant no harm. but they meant harm. they intended not only to scare us but also to injure us, whether by hitting us with pressurized water or tear gas canisters, or by causing the exact stampede we were trying so hard to avoid.
i cried quietly on the boat home from taksim tonight. something in me felt broken. call me naive if you'd like, but i'm not sure i believed something like this existed before tonight, before i saw it for myself. violence in the face of non-violence. the absence of a public space to express our collective yet peaceful discontent. the disrespect one human can show another when they refuse to recognize that they are, in essence, equals.
i am struggling tonight to hold onto the beauty and signs of collective strength i have witnessed during these past weeks - the solidarities formed in gezi park, on the streets of istanbul, and all across social media platforms. i still want to believe in the basic goodness of humanity. but something in me broke tonight. and so i know this night will be a dark one in my personal history; and i worry that it will be a dark night in turkey's history as well.
non-turkish and non-turkish-speaking friends: if you haven't already done so, please take the time to educate yourselves about the situation here. take the time to contact your local consulates and elected representatives to demand that somebody be held accountable for this unwarranted violence. demand that there be public spaces in which people can come together to peacefully protest. demand that human rights - nay, human decency - be respected. we need your help.
Doctors taken in to police custody
After taking lawyers into police custody now the doctors who volunteer for the protestors' are taken into police custody! Police arrests doctors for helping injured people.
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| Doctor taken into police custody during protest in Turkey. |
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