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Post by pjotr on Jun 5, 2013 23:38:44 GMT 1
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Post by Bonobo on Jun 6, 2013 20:34:27 GMT 1
They are fighting for the right to have their own voice. Also, for a fair and serious treatment by the authorities which have been turning to dictatorial methods recently.
Those young educated intelligent guys are true democracy warriors. Remind me of Chinese students in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
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Post by Bonobo on Jun 7, 2013 18:46:41 GMT 1
The lady in a red dress has become the symbol of Turkish protest.    s Horrifying image of 'woman in red' being doused with pepper spray becomes symbol of Turkish protests
Women feel threatened by official promotion of the Islamic headscarf and concerns about women's rights
Many have joined in the street fighting raging in Turkey since Friday
British student Melisa Kenber said she was sprayed in the face for filming police during protests
Deputy Prime Minister apologised for police brutality as Ankara appeared to soften its stance against protestors
Bulent Arinc due to meet protest organisers today in bid diffuse tensions after days of heated demonstrations
Large trade union due to stage walkout today as protest movement gathers support
Turkish police arrest 25 people for 'spreading untrue information' on Twitter and provoking protest
Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2335924/Turkey-Protests-Horrifying-image-woman-red-doused-pepper-spray-symbol-Turkish-protests.html#ixzz2VYNmBNM8dd |
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Post by pjotr on Jun 19, 2013 17:50:15 GMT 1
Guys, www.aljazeera.com/video/europe/2013/06/201361931549239752.htmlNon-violent protest against an increasingly oppressive Turkish authorities. The gap between the Turkish authorities and it's supporters, members, voters and militants of prime-ministers Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (26 February 1954) and President Abdullah Gül (1950) on one side and the Secular opposition of Turkish conservatives, liberals, social-democrats, socialists, nationalists, Turkish Kurds and Kemalists (Secular Atatürk supporters) is growing. The longer the demonstrations continue and the harsher the language (statements) of Erdoğan and the opression of the Turkish police, the wider the gap will become. The situation in Turkey is closely monitored by the Turkish and Turkish-Kurd migrant communities in Western-Europe. I know secular-humanist and moderate liberal Turkish Muslims in the Netherlands who oppose the Turkish Erdoğan government, in the same time he has considerate support amongst conservative or orthodox Sunni-Muslim Turks in various European countries. When he visited Germany and the Netherlands he was received by hundreds and sometimes even thousands of supporters who wave Turkish and AK-party flags in the stadiums he attended. I wonder whether the Turkish army will support Erdoğan against the Turkish population (the opposition). In the past the Turkish Army was secular, and the protector of Turkish republican and Kemalist (Atatürks heritage and state ideology) ideals and the Turkish secular state. Do we see today a silent Islamization of Turkey, by a Muslim government party which is disguised as a conservative party? The demonstrators fight for the preservation of the secular consitution, the secular democracy. It's not about a park, but about the direction Turkey will go. The protest movement is turning into a Turkish occupy movement. Only the Turkish Occupy movements of Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir have wider support. Bonobo and Tufta, doe these protests remind you of the Solidarity movement and the confrontations between the Communist authorities and their notorious riot police and the democratic opposition of that Polish Union? Is the Turkish democracy in decline? What is the link with Egypt and Syria? Izmir, the most secular Turkish cityOther imagesTurkish police abuses protesterCheers, Pieter P.S.- Most of the Facebook messages I receive are coming from a former Turkish colleage of mine who follows the Turkish protest movement agains the government. The messages (no surprise) are in Turkish, but I can understand some of the messages due to the photo's, cartoons and sometimes video's which are add to them. |
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Post by pjotr on Jun 21, 2013 18:21:46 GMT 1
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Post by pjotr on Jun 21, 2013 18:22:59 GMT 1
Turkish Doctor Association denounces state violence against protestersDate and Time:5 June 2013 - 11:35 - Police brutality in Turkey occupygeziThe Turkish Doctors’ Association said on Monday a protester has died of his injuries after a vehicle slammed into a crowd of protesters. Huseyin Demirduzen, who heads the association, told The Associated Press that the 20-year-old man died in a hospital in Istanbul on Monday. He says the four-wheel drive rammed into a group of protesters who were marching along a highway late on Sunday. It was not known if the driver drove into the crowd deliberately or didn’t realize that there were protesters. In a related development, the Turkish police fired tear gas to disperse a crowd of protesters in Ankara – capital of Turkey – on the fourth day of a protest movement against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.  An injured demonstrator lies on the ground on June 1, 2013 during a march to parliament and the prime minister's office in Ankara (AFP Photo / STR)According to sources about 500 demonstrators were arrested on Sunday as they were chanting slogans against the regime, calling for the prime minister resignation. Turkish President Abdullah Gul insisted that peaceful demonstrations are part of democracy. Gul called on citizens to remain calm. He added he would take into account calls for change. He warned however that he would not tolerate dissidents to use the protests to forward their agendas. Turkey has been experiencing a series of violent protests since Friday, which of the like the country never witnesses since the rise to power of the Justice and Development Party, AK-party, – led by Recep Tayyip Erdogan – in 2002.
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Post by pjotr on Jun 21, 2013 18:25:17 GMT 1
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Post by pjotr on Jun 21, 2013 19:09:45 GMT 1
Bo and Tufta, Is there some solidarity with these Turks in Poland? There is some historical connection between Poland and Turkey, simular to the Polish Hungarian connection. The Ottoman Empire was one of only two countries in the world that refused to accept the partitions of Poland and reserved a place in its diplomatic corps for an Ambassador of Lehistan (Poland).The Polish village of Polonezköy (Adampol) in Turkey Located on the outskirts of Istanbul's Alemdağ district on the Anatolian side of the Bosporus, Polonezköy was founded in 1842 by Polish refugees who were welcomed by the Ottoman Empire after their country was divided up between Prussia, Austria and Russia. The Ottomans welcomed those Polish refugees into their lands. Today their descendents have made this land their home. They have become people of this country while at the same time preserving their traditions, religion and languages.  Noting that the Poles living in Polonezköy have maintained their identity thanks to the tolerance of both the Ottomans and the Turkish Republic, Polonezköy is a matter of pride for the Turks. It is a good example demonstrating the development and civilization of our country and symbolizing the world's peace, humanity and development. There was a cultural unity that the world needs. Polonezköy is a bridge between Turkey and Poland. Thus Polonezköy should maintain its identity, he added. In a country where there is not much tolerance for ethnic and religious minorities like Kurds, Allawites, Greeks, Armenians, Arabs and christian minorities, this is an important historical and cultural element in the Turkish-Polish relationship and bilateral ties. Cheers, Pieter |
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Post by Bonobo on Jun 21, 2013 20:24:33 GMT 1
Bo and Tufta, Is there some solidarity with these Turks in Poland? There is, though not officially. When I read people`s entries on Polish news sites, majority support the Turkish protest. Some ask when Poles will arise like that!  |
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Post by pjotr on Jun 27, 2013 14:47:46 GMT 1
Bo and Tufta, Is there some solidarity with these Turks in Poland? When I read people`s entries on Polish news sites, majority support the Turkish protest. That is good. The Poles know what it is to be oppressed and to rise against it. They will if the economical situation will get worse, if there is really mass unemployment, the gap between rich and poor will get bigger, and if Poland becomes too dependent on Russian energy, political influence, and for instance European (read German/French) control. Patriotic Poles will rise for Freedom, prosperity, jobs, bread (like under communism) and Polish independence. History always repeats itself. Only the situation and the rulers and foreign influences are never the same. |
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