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[bill cobbett]

Lots more pictures at ... http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/Defaul ... 03&gpid=26 , which make the Turkish Capital Ankara look like Istanbul in the bad days of the early summer.

[repulsewarrior]

...i admire the Turks who are in conflict with the "Turks" who think there is a "Turkishness" enough. we all have a lot to learn from this, it reminds me of the occupy movement, and the creative groundswell which can find expressions of non-violent action, because their subjugation has gone too far.

there is an enemy, it is Ignorance, Turks (like Greeks; this is a Cyprus forum), have not identified, or challenged, this real enemy. or at least for far too long, they have allowed themselves to become accessories by remaining silent, (or by generalising like "Greeks and "Turks" do). and by denying that they must look within themselves to be free of their fear, the new thinking, for a Humanity of Universal Principals grows just the same, but painfully, and slowly. defining a State, and in it the Liberty where Nations can be defined as equals, is a step in Mankind's evolution, where as Individuals Free, in Association, Expression, and Movement, one chooses to live in Turkey (Cyprus), because they love it as a land, proud to be a Turk (Cypriot), not necessarily a "Turk" (or not "Turkish"/ "Greek").

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/11/jailed-turkish-cartoonists-criticize-erdogan.html?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=8631

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/06/turkey-protests-humor-resistance.html

[supporttheunderdog]

... and a video ...

(do look promptly cos vids are being taken down)

Bill

If Videos are being taken down look at using a program with a downloader like real player or Freemake to "grab" the videos, then look at reposting them (and posting the new links).

[Demonax]

Erdogan blaming the Alevis for the Gezi Park protests....

A report by the Turkish police this week states that 78 percent of the demonstrators in Turkey against the demolition of Gezi Park were Alevis. This enraged the Alevis, who regard the report as an attempt not only to blame them but to depict the demonstrations as an ethnic issue of no concern to the general public.

Turkish human rights activists regard the report as evidence of something more serious. In a query by an MP from the opposition Republican People’s Party, Sezgin Tanrikoglu, Erdogan was asked to explain how the police figured out the 78 percent.

In Turkish ID cards, citizens are identified as Muslims or members of another religion, without stipulating which religion. Tanrikoglu demanded to know whether the police had compiled profiles of Alevi citizens. He also wanted to know who ordered the police to conduct such a survey.

To many Alevi columnists, both for Turkish newspapers and the extensive Alevi press, there’s no difference between the military putschists of yore and Erdogan’s regime. They remind their readers of the massacre in the town of Kahramanmaras in 1978, when 106 people, mainly Kurdish Alevis, were killed....

http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east ... m-1.560780

[Demonax]

Erdogan blaming the Alevis for the Gezi Park protests....

A report by the Turkish police this week states that 78 percent of the demonstrators in Turkey against the demolition of Gezi Park were Alevis. This enraged the Alevis, who regard the report as an attempt not only to blame them but to depict the demonstrations as an ethnic issue of no concern to the general public.

Turkish human rights activists regard the report as evidence of something more serious. In a query by an MP from the opposition Republican People’s Party, Sezgin Tanrikoglu, Erdogan was asked to explain how the police figured out the 78 percent.

In Turkish ID cards, citizens are identified as Muslims or members of another religion, without stipulating which religion. Tanrikoglu demanded to know whether the police had compiled profiles of Alevi citizens. He also wanted to know who ordered the police to conduct such a survey.

To many Alevi columnists, both for Turkish newspapers and the extensive Alevi press, there’s no difference between the military putschists of yore and Erdogan’s regime. They remind their readers of the massacre in the town of Kahramanmaras in 1978, when 106 people, mainly Kurdish Alevis, were killed....

http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east ... m-1.560780

[Tim Drayton]

A large demonstration against the looting of the environment was held in Kadıköy/Istanbul yesterday (22 December), with slogans also being shouted in protest at the ruling AKP’s corruption. The demonstration later turned nasty, and the police intervened with tear gas and water cannons.



http://birgun.net/haber/ye-dir-me-ye-ce-giz-8759.html

[Tim Drayton]

Hundreds of lawyers were prevented by the police from marching through the Beyoğlu area of Istanbul last night (23 December) on the eve of a show trial involving 22 lawyers who are members of the Modern Jurists Association.



http://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/haber/2185 ... ngeli.html

[B25]

Not even Stalin was so successful!

[Tim Drayton]

24 December. A group of students attempted to march in Taksim/Istanbul under a banner reading “We will not give way to fascism” but were blocked by the police, who used a large amount of tear gas to break up the demonstration.



http://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/haber/2210 ... e_gaz.html

[Tim Drayton]

Former Interior minister, Muammer Güler, who was forced to resign recently in the corruption scandal that has shaken Turkey, has now admitted that chemical additives were used in water cannons against Gezi Park protestors. He said, “OC gas, synthetic fire extinguishing foam and food colouring were used in riot control vehicles.”



http://birgun.net/haber/tomaya-gaz-koyd ... -9063.html