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[DrCyprus]

I just thought it would be great to have a thread about the war the state of Turkey wages upon the Turkish people.


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Sex as a police punishment


What you will read below is extremely disturbing. It is the firsthand impressions of a Boğaziçi (Bosphorus) University student who was detained by police in connection with the Gezi Park incidents in Istanbul.

We, as a generation, grew up in an atmosphere of state brutality, when most of the time sex crimes were part of the torture process during military regimes. Horrible stories and horrible statements were heard. One example is the unforgettable self-confession of a retired general of the September 12 regime. He said, “When I have rock-hard young men at my service, why should I use batons?” when he was asked about torture done with batons… He was arguing that it did not happen, why he should use the baton, when he had other weapons…


Daily News Photo, Emrah Gürel

That was the 1980s. We thought those days were over… Now, it is 33 years later. We live in the age of limitless, endless information exchange where nothing can be hidden… When everything is documented, police brutality is filmed, recorded, not tolerated, unless encouraged by dark-minded administrators…

I will not go on discussing how pathetic a man can be when he uses his sexual skills as a punishment for the other sex. How pathetic it is for him to see sex as punishment… We can discuss that later.

The entry you will read below came through the Internet. It was on the Facebook page of the person narrating. It was also in Hürriyet columnist Yalçın Bayer’s web version of his column. It was sent to Yalçın Bayer by Professor Işık Aytaç, again from Bosphorus University, as the account of her student Erkan Yolalan, who shared his story on his Facebook page.

Erkan Yolalan first thanks everybody who has assisted him, especially to those who fetched him a lawyer.
Here is his story:

“I am at home, I’m fine. I want to write what I went through. My only aim is that everybody knows what is being experienced while in detention. I have no other aim; I want to say that at the beginning. I will write all of the events that happened to me from the beginning and with all swear words and insults included. With all its openness…

“Last night (June 3, 2013) around 9 p.m. I was detained in Beşiktaş, at traffic lights on Barbaros Avenue. I was not involved in any action like swearing or throwing stones. They took me in bending my arm the moment they saw me. Some friends of mine saw on TV how I was taken into custody. Then hell began.

“After crossing the lights in the direction of the seaside, while I was at the edge of the platform where the IETT bus stops are at the seaside, any policeman who was there and any riot police squad member (çevik kuvvet) who saw me started kicking and punching me. For about 100-150 meters, in other words, all the way to the Kadıköy ferry station, whoever was present there was kicking and punching. Insults and curses such as ‘Are you the ones to save this country, mother f***, sons of ****,’ never ended. I could not count how many people hit me before I reached the detention bus.

“Just as I was taken near the buses, a few policemen called from behind a bus, ‘Bring him here.’ They took me behind the bus and started kicking and punching me there. I learned later that because of the cameras they took me behind the bus to beat me.

“When I was inside the detention bus (İETT) the lights were out, and I heard a girl’s voice begging inside the bus: ‘I did not do anything, sir.’ I could not even see who was hitting me as I was taken inside the bus and after I was in the bus. The only thing I was able to do in the dark was to cover my head. Curses and insults continued. I sat. Everyone who was passing near me was hitting me. I got up and went to a corner. They wanted me to take a seat again. I told them everyone who passed by was hitting me when I was seated.

They again swore, slapped and punched me and made me sit.

“They were hitting the girl and throttling her. A civilian policeman whose name is İsmail said exactly this to the girl, ‘I will bend you over and f*** you right now.’ [He – Erkan Yolalan- later added that this policeman İsmail also said, “Now that it is dark and the lights are off I will ****”]

“And the response of the girl was heartbreaking. With a low voice, she could only say ‘Yes, sir.’
“And next, we, the three people present at the bus, were forced to shout: ‘I love the Turkish police. I love my country.’ They made us yell this again and again ordered us to make it ‘louder, louder.’ The insults and beating did not come to an end.

“The atmosphere seemed a bit calmer, but this time they brought another young person. The guy’s nose was broken. When I asked him why he didn’t protect his face, he told me ‘Two people held me by force and a third person punched my nose three times.’ From time to time there were others brought in.

“A young person named Mustafa from Bahçeşehir University was brought then. Twenty policemen from the riot squad had attacked him, and he looked too weak even to stand up. Slapping and punching him near the detention bus was not enough for them, they hit his head with a helmet. That was not enough either, they hit his head on the bus window. They took him inside the bus while continuously hitting him. His hands were cuffed from behind; his head was bleeding; they made him sit on the floor.

“We saw his head bleeding. I went near him and held a cloth (the bloody t-shirt of the guy whose nose was broken) to his wound to stop the bleeding. This police named Süleyman cursed at me and told me to ‘f*** off’ to my seat. I told him, ‘He is bleeding.’ He said, ‘He can bleed.’ He did not care at all. They were holding the guy in handcuffs with all his injuries. We pointed that out to a couple of policemen. Finally, one of them opened the cuffs.

“Actually the second heartbreaking incident happened when we were at the police station for statements. Mustafa asked me this: ‘Did they hit me at the bus? What happened?’ The guy could not remember. He was not fully conscious while he was on the bus.

“As a last point, we could not go to the toilet while we were at the bus. They only gave us a bottle of water. Then we were taken to the hospital for doctor’s reports and then to the police station.

“Once we were at the police station, an army of lawyers was waiting for us. And the policemen now were talking to us on polite terms.

“I want to thank all the lawyers, all our friends who called the lawyers and everybody who was worried about us. There is not a bit of an exaggeration in this piece. Everything that has been experienced is true and my only aim is for everybody to hear it firsthand.

Revolt against brutality is continuing. This fascist order will be destroyed.”

New Information: This story was at Parliament today, June 6. Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Antalya deputy Yıldıray Sapan spoke in Parliament. He referred in short to this incident and demanded that this civilian police officer be found. Sapan also asked how the prime minister, Arınç or the interior minister would feel if such words were said to their daughters, wives, sisters or any other person they know.

I want that policeman to be found also. And the others.

Note to international readers: Do you know what will happen? This person Erkan will be terrorized with scores of lawsuits filed against him by the policemen in question, all testifying that he attacked them first. The public prosecutor will process these cases much faster, even before the cases against them begin. Collecting the evidence will take ages. The guy and all the others on that detention bus and any others testifying for him will be found guilty and will be given jail sentences. Earmark this paragraph for future reference.

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[Maximus]

This one is for all the Turkophiles, who want to live under neo-ottoman rule in Cyprus.

[GreekIslandGirl]

Yeah, whatever - who cares how the enemy live and die so long as they remove themselves from Cypriot soil.

[DrCyprus]

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkis ... sCatID=338

Police exercised “excessive force” in trying to quell the Gezi Park protests in Istanbul and İzmir, according to a recent report prepared by Interior Ministry inspectors.

The report demanded permission to open preliminary an investigation into some cases of the excessive use of force in Istanbul.

It also demanded permission to probe plainclothes police officers who were seen carrying sticks, as well as colleagues who failed to prevent arson at a ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) building in İzmir during the Gezi protests.

Interior Minister Muammer Güler allowed the inspectors to conduct a preliminary inspection over the cases in Istanbul, according to daily Milliyet. With Güler’s permission, the inspectors will take testimonies from “suspected” police officers.

After testimonies, the inspectors will send their demand for an investigation to the Istanbul Governor’s Office, whose permission is necessary to open an investigation against the officers. The inspectors have also opened administrative disciplinary proceedings with Güler’s permission.

The incidents into which the inspectors will conduct a preliminary inspection include the case of a police officer seen spraying tear gas at Ceyda Sungur, the “woman in red,” in Gezi Park on May 28. A photo of the incident caused an uproar around Turkey and became one of the most enduring images of the protests.

In İzmir, inspectors examined plainclothes officers whose march through the streets with sticks was deemed an excessive use of force.

The inspectors also determined that some high-level police chiefs were involved in unlawful actions, particularly because they permitted police officers to use sticks, which are not among the list of materials used by police.

The report also faulted plainclothes officers for not wearing vests identifying them as police officers, while additionally declaring police chiefs negligent for failing to prevent protesters from lighting an AKP building on fire in İzmir.

The inspectors’ work on incidents in Ankara and Antalya is continuing.

A small group of people protesting the construction of a shopping mall in Taksim’s Gezi Park in May were exposed to police brutality, triggering nationwide protests against police violence for several months. Five people, including a policeman, have been killed in the protests.

[Get Real!]

In tradition with the Turkey bashing I present my contribution…

[DT.]

In tradition with the Turkey bashing I present my contribution…

Third eagle of the apocalypse???

More like 4th strouthos of Astromeritis

[kurupetos]

[DrCyprus]

Help! Police! Save me from the police!

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/help-p ... sCatID=469

One of the most dramatic moments of the victim’s story was when she was telling me how she called for help from uniformed police officers while plainclothes police were dragging her and beating her. She, Pınar, came to understand that her beaters were themselves policemen only after she saw the sad expression of the uniformed police who turned his face away while she was being beaten.

The other tragic moment, you may remember from Erkan’s story, was when undercover police officer “Süleyman” told her: “I’ll bend you over and f..k you here; since the lights are out…”

When I asked Pınar if she would recognize and identify that “Süleyman,” she told me, “Yes, of course I can identify him. Actually, I saw him later at Beşiktaş, Abbasağa Park. When that person understood that I recognized him, he disappeared into the crowd.”

Pınar’s story will take two weeks to write. It will continue next Saturday.

On the third day of the Gezi incidents, Beşiktaş was the scene of clashes with police and protestors. As happens in any anti-democratic and anti-modernized police force, the police in Beşiktaş on that night, unable to catch the real perpetrators, targeted whoever was on the street at that moment and randomly detained young people. This was the story of Erkan Yolalan, a Bosphorus University graduate student. He posted it on his Facebook account, and daily Hürriyet columnist Yalçın Bayer wrote it. I wrote it in English.

Thanks to Erkan, we have found Pınar, the detained person harassed by the police. She told me her story. Both stories are very similar to each other - yes, because they were in the same bus being beaten and harassed…

You can find Erkan’s story in English here.

This person, Pınar, who was brutally beaten and sexually harassed on the night of June 2 and early hours of June 3 by police in Istanbul, spoke to me…

She is 26-years-old and is trained as a kindergarten teacher, but works in television production. She is doing fine, for the moment, trying to cope with the trauma. Her psychological, social and economic wellbeing have been interrupted. She lost her job because she could not show up for work.

Explaining her ordeal in such detail was harder for her than she thought it would be. She almost had to go through the horrible moments over and over again.

I can only say thank you to her for sharing them with us. Thank you, Pınar, for bringing them up for us.

Pınar said she had explained everything as precisely as she could, hoping that her account would make a contribution to humanity. I hope so Pınar, I do hope so…

Here is what she told me:

“On the date June 2, 2013 at 8:45 p.m., I was trying to go to my apartment in Beşiktaş. (I am saying ‘trying to’ because there was gas everywhere. Let alone seeing around clearly, I was not even able to breathe easily.) I was not engaged in any kind of protesting activity - cursing at the police or throwing stones at the police or any kind of activity against the public order. But with a very swift movement, two people bent my arms and started dragging me. I was constantly asking, ‘Who are you?’ to those two people. They not only insulted me and swore at me with words I am not able to repeat here, they never told me that they were policemen, nor did they read me my rights.

“According to the subpoena that arrived at my home a few weeks ago from the 31st Minor Offences Court, an investigation is being conducted into us. A court case is to be opened against us, and a hearing will be held on Nov. 19, 2013. In that document, it was claimed that I was detained on the Dolmabahçe Road.

“Well, I was not in Dolmabahçe. I was detained at the traffic lights on Barbaros Avenue, in front of the pastry shop/café there. (By changing the venue of my detention, they are trying to add some meaning, or reason, to a meaningless act of theirs.)

“From the place where I was stopped to the open area near where the Prime Minister’s Istanbul Office’s high walls are, I was dragged for meters. I was dragged and beaten. They wanted to drag me toward the high walls. While I was resisting between the cars to prevent being dragged to the wall, whenever I raised my head to see where I was, the person who was holding my right arm hit me on the right side of my head.

“On the road leading to the Beşiktaş ferry station, I saw uniformed police near the buses. I yelled ‘Help, save me.’ When a police officer tuned his head with a sad expression, then I understood that those holding me from both sides were also policemen.

“A green city bus had been made the detention bus. While they were forcing me to board the bus, there was no end to the curses/swear words and insults such as, ‘Are you the ones to save this country, children of the mother f…., the sons of b...s.’

“All the windows of the bus were closed; it smelled of sweat and dirt. All the glass was steamed because of the breath of the riot police sleeping at the back of the bus.

“I followed the order, ‘You wait here,’ when they told me so. And I started listening to the voices coming from outside:

- “‘Where are they?’
- ‘They are bringing them, chief.’
- ‘Search them, take their identities.’
- ‘One of them is a female, sir.’
- ‘What? Where is that wh…e?’”

To be continued…

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