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Sorry, an old friend of ours just posted this on FB...

What a remarkable sight...

Like army ants on the move over a log…

[Demonax]

Updated pics:

http://occupygezipics.tumblr.com/

Live stream:

http://www.livestream.com/revoltistanbu ... ooterlinks

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[GreekIslandGirl]

Pleased you got out OK, BigOz, and thanks for taking the time to post your experience.

I hope there's a happy ending.

For who?

It's time ....

Never forget - The Fall of Constantinople MAY 29th 1453

[Tim Drayton]

Yes ok Tim... Chemical Erdogan may have been democratically elected but we're in to the area of Tyranny of the Majority, a consensus leader he clearly ain't.

...and yes respect to BigOz for the moving and brill first-hand account.

... and if might add just one picky to this thread; no gas, no violence, no blood, just people, determined people marching across the Bosphorus in their hundreds, who just want their say in Turkey's future...

I hope this is the beginning of Turkey's Tahrir, but one must be careful about drawing over-simplistic parallels.

[Tim Drayton]

The main opposition party in Turkey, the CHP, was to hold a protest meting against the government this afternoon at 16.00. Now, this meeting has been cancelled and people who were planning to attend have been urged to assemble in Taksim instead.

http://www.radikal.com.tr/politika/chp_ ... ek-1135863

[bill cobbett]

The main opposition party in Turkey, the CHP, was to hold a protest meting against the government this afternoon at 16.00. Now, this meeting has been cancelled and people who were planning to attend have been urged to assemble in Taksim instead.

http://www.radikal.com.tr/politika/chp_ ... ek-1135863

Yes and watching the BBC... tens of thousands, perhaps as many as 200,000 people in or trying to get in to Taksim at the mo.

Police have abandoned the square to the protesters.

[Tim Drayton]

It seems that at about 16.00 today protesters in Ankara broke through police barricades and are now occupying the main square at the centre of the city, Kızılay Meydanı.

http://www.radikal.com.tr/turkiye/baske ... ay-1135872

[Tim Drayton]

Another source states that it was today at 17:42 that protestors took full control of Ankara's main square (Kızılay), and that it is now full of thousands of protestors.

http://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/?hn=420290&kn=7&ka=4&kb=7

[CBBB]

Sounds as though it is time for the traditional Turkish remedy, a military coup.

That will bugger up their chances of joining the EU.