Thousands of Turks protest the election fraud

[Ryujin]

Many people in Istanbul took to the streets last night after controversial election results that gave Erdogan a narrow win.

For the first time since Erdogan came to power; Istanbul voted against him.

[Paris-Brest]

They are crazy, they should stay at home if they don't want to die.

[meisje]

They are crazy, they should stay at home if they don't want to die.

It cannot be worser than France where people and protesters were beaten and even raped by Police Officers

[Petros Houhoulis]

It cannot be worser than France where people and protesters were beaten and even raped by Police Officers

It can be worse, Sultan Mad Terrorist is known for killing his own misfortunate subjects:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casual...rotests#Deaths

Deaths[edit]

Deathplace of Ethem Sarısülük in Kızılay, Ankara. Had set as the memorial place in post-40 days.

• Mehmet Ayvalitas was the first known death related to the demonstrations. The 20-year-old Socialist Solidarity Platform (SODAP) member was hit and killed when a taxi drove into a group of demonstrators on an Istanbul highway during an anti-government protest. Huseyin Demirdizen, a board member of the Turkish Medical Association (Türk Tabipler Birliği; TTB) confirmed his death and said four other people were also injured, one of them seriously.^[47]
• Selim Önder, an 88-year-old musician, was exposed to excessive amounts of tear gas on 31 May while trying to buy souvenirs and died a few days afterwards.^[48]
• Abdullah Cömert, 22-year-old youth branch member of the Republican People's Party (CHP) in Antakya, received a head injury in Hatay and later died in hospital.^[49][50] Initial reports described a wound from gunfire, but an autopsy ascribed his death to an injury from an exploding tear gas canister.^[51][52]

Internet activists and hackers RedHack, which got national and continental fame during protests because of their abilities to find the evidences online like their releasing of proofs on Reyhanlı bombings about Gendarmerie and government having intelligence about the bombings before they happen, released police documents on 11 September, showing the working hours, vehicles and places of police officers, this showed 5 to 6 police officers who must be responsible for Abdullah's death.^[53][54][55] Some time after these leaks that helped jurisdiction to take action better and faster and long time after he has been shot by the police canister, the official forensic investigation has been completed and it was officially proved that police officer's shot caused Abdullah to die.^[56] Investigation and case will continue until a definite decision about who is or who are responsible for the murder of Abdullah.

• Ethem Sarısülük, a 26-year-old human rights activist who worked at OSTIM, died on 2 June; he was reported dead 11 days after he was shot in the head in Ankara by Ahmet Şahbaz, a police officer.^[57][58][59]
• Mustafa Sarı, a Police commissioner, died on 5 June, falling off a bridge while pursuing protesters in the southern province of Adana.^[4]
• İrfan Tuna died in Ankara on 6 June from a heart attack that resulted from overexposure to tear gas.^[5]
• Zeynep Eryaşar, a 55-year-old woman with diabetes, died in Avcılar, Istanbul on 15 June, from a heart attack that resulted from the crowd and police pressure.^[60][61]
• Ali İsmail Korkmaz, a 19-year-old student from Antakya, studying in Anadolu Üniversitesi (Anadolu University) in Eskişehir suffered a severe brain injury on 2 June after being attacked by a group that eyewitnesses allege included undercover police. He was confirmed dead in early July. In his autopsy report on 10 July, the cause of death was stated as cerebral hemorrhage caused by violent blows onto his head during the attack.^[62] The camera records showing the people attacking Ali İsmail Korkmaz was found in a local hotel, police took the records and shortly after it was told by the court that the videos were irreversibly damaged.^[63] although the hotel owner denied this.^[64][65][65] Later, the "irreversibly damaged" video was uploaded to the internet but according to legal experts it had a cut of 18 to 20 minutes.^[66] The prosecutor responsible for the case was changed in the middle of the proceedings after sending the hard disk to the Forensic Medicine Association to clarify whether the camera recordings were deleted by officials.^[67][68] The reason was reported as the judiciary holiday until 1 September by officials.^[69][70] As the investigation continued, the governor of Eskişehir, Güngor Azim Tuna alleged that "mostly civilians were responsible for the death rather than our police".^[71][72] Soon after, new video recordings of the street during the event were found and it was cleared that 4 polices and 4 civilians besides them are responsible for the death.^[73] 5 people including the responsible civilians and a police officer were arrested.^[74] The case still continues for these 8 people.^[74] Korkmaz's family also applied to the court for an investigation on the Doctor Hasan Gücel who didn't treat Ali without a document from the police at first and sent him home with a painkiller while he was having a brain hemorrhage,^[75] stating that he is as responsible as others for the murder.^[76] Although, the governor of Eskişehir, Güngor Azim Tuna, didn't give investigation permission on the doctor. The family decided to apply to the higher courts.^[76]
• Ahmet Atakan, a 22-year-old protester taking part in a demonstration in a left-wing stronghold of the Armutlu neighborhood in Antakya, demonstrating solidarity with protests against the illegal road construction through Middle Eastern Technical University's old forest, died from heavy cerebral damage caused by a tear gas canister fired by police at around 2 a.m. on 10 September while Ahmet was on a rooftop. Mevlüt Dudu, a Member of Parliament of Republican People's Party from Hatay confirmed the death first on Halk TV even though he was still alive at that moment. Soon after, hospital officials confirmed the death.^[7][77] The teargas canisters with bloodmarks were found around his death place and the investigation still continues as eyewitnesses and a big margin of the Turkish people defends that his death reason was the canister that shot him on the rooftop, AKP supporters and officials defend he simply fell down from the rooftop whilst he was trying to throw a solar panel on the riot police vehicle.^[7][78] Special investigators hired by Ahmet's family found the bloody tear gas canister on 13 September, near the area in a sewage and this was interpreted as an attempt to get rid of the evidences by responsibles. MP of Republican People's Party from Hatay, Refik Eryılmaz has accompanied the family and investigators while they gave the evidences (the canister and a second amateur video), to the Chief Prosecutor's.^[79][80][81] During the investigation process, lots of wide sit-ins and protests to provide "justice in the case and on evidences" and to put officials under pressure, giving them no way to get the death covered up with any scenarios, were held and are still being held across Turkey.^[79] While the final news mostly proved that the death caused by the police's shot, the official forensic investigation and case is still going on for and to clarify the situation and also look for any responsibles.
• Serdar Kadakal, a 35-year-old tonmeister at a Jazz & Blues Bar in Kadıköy, Istanbul, also living in the district, lost his life on the evening of 13 September 2013 because of a heart attack triggered by extreme inhalation of OC spray and teargas during re-ignited protests of early-September in Turkey in the district of Kadıköy, a district where the mass protests and police brutality took place in Istanbul besides Taksim. There are some opposite allegations about the cause of his death being made by police, too. The autopsy report is still being processed.^[82][83][84]
• Berkin Elvan, a 14-year-old boy was hit in the head by a tear-gas canister during the evening protests at Okmeydanı, on 15 June 2013, sustaining severe head injuries.^[85][86] After 267 days in coma, Berkin decreased to 16 kilos and got in critical condition, then he was taken to the intensive care unit. That evening Turkish President Abdullah Gül called the family for "good wishes" and to ask "if there is something they can do", this call was criticised a lot as the boy was shot by government's police force and was in coma for 267 days. Two and a half days after these, the 15-year-old boy's heart stopped around 07:00 AM and was in that condition for 20 minutes, doctors managed to rework his heart but the time without bloodflow was too much, so his brain died and his brain death, then soon after his death was reported by the doctors and the family with "deep sadness, weeping and anger against those who did this and didn't care and help at all, throughout 269 days in Berkin's coma. Lots of commemoration marches and huge protests were organized around Turkey and is going to take place during this day(11 March, Berkin's Death) and upcoming weeks, until elections. All these; voice tapes of Erdoğan, his family and his friends showing corruption and bribery, AKP's cold conflict with Gülen movement and lately. Berkin's death, the latest victim of Occupy Gezi protests, are expected to affect ruling AK Party's votes in a bad way.
  
  • On 31 July, thousands gathered in Taksim Square to support Berkin Elvan and his family and to tell the government to find the responsible of Berkin's injury, while it was planned that the father Sami Elvan was going to make a press statement.^[87] Police attacked the protesters and cleared the square, blocking the entries.^[88] Some were injured and some were arrested.^[89] Then the family made the short statement inside the crowd before the police interference again. Soon after, police interfered again, preventing the family from freely speaking as the crowd got bigger into the İstiklal Avenue. These was criticised as against to the freedom of speech.^[90] Member of Parliament from Republican People's Party and also the party's assistant director Sezgin Tanrıkulu was also seen talking to the police to stop the attack but he was manhandled by the police too.^[91] During the interference in İstiklal Avenue and Mis Street a police was seen pointing his gun at the protesers.^[91] As the protests continued through the night news of lots of injuries and arrests by the riot police have arrived.^[89] Turkish media was silent to the protests and demands except the channels like Halk TV, Ulusal Kanal, Cem TV, etc., while the foreign media channels like CNN International, BBC and Reuters put on coverages and at least articles.^[90]

Most of those killed were from the Alevi minority.^[92]