Turkish people protest in ~90 cities!

[Proto-Shaman]

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...&type=1&ref=nf



Turks are marching to the Parliament!!

[Styggnacke]

about 30 people died today... whole Turkish Republic is burning right now...

Source?

[Baldur]

wow that looks pretty hardcore.

[Musso]

Why do people not like AKP and what's the alternative?

[Petros Houhoulis]

I interrupt my usual routine of playing Stormfall/Farmville 2/Avengers Alliance/Zombie Lane/Top Eleven/War Commander/Superball/My Lands in order to inform you of the recent message that I received through facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/RichardDawk...ocation=stream

Turkey's Islamist-rooted government is clamping down on media. Use social media to share this and other information from Turkey and back to Turkey. Do what you can to help Turkish advocates for secular government. There are many good secular people in Turkey who simply want basic civil liberties and a government that doesn't put its thumb on the scales to favor Islam.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2013/05/2013531112443894367.html

I tried hard to concentrate on my games' progress and leave you have some respite, but no! I am still picking negative news about Turkey, even without to resort to any Greek Turkish-bashing media.

Ah, the Greek Turkish-bashing media have picked up just another issue as well. Watch where you are stepping!

[Nox-C]

http://www.vgtv.no/#!/video/65023/op...istanbul-riots

[dado]

was there even more than thousand protesters...better said thugs

[Annihilus]

It is not normal how brutal the police is. AKP must pay for this, hang that arab bastard Tayyip!

[Petros Houhoulis]

It is not normal how brutal the police is. AKP must pay for this, hang that arab bastard Tayyip!

Actually it is less brutal than the typical Turkish police force of the past:

1977:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taksim_...acre#The_event

The estimates on the number of participants in the Labour Day celebrations on Taksim Square in 1977 is usually given as 500,000 citizens.[3] Many participants and in particular the so-called Maoist block had not even entered the square when shots were heard. Most witnesses stated that they came from the building of the water supply company (Sular İdaresi) and the Intercontinental Hotel (now called The Marmara).[2] Subsequently the security forces intervened with armoured vehicles making much noise with their sirens and explosives. They also hosed the crowd with pressurized water. Most casualties were caused by the panic that this intervention created.[1]
Casualties

The figures on the casualties vary between 34 and 42 persons killed and 126 and 220 persons being injured. An official indictment against 98 participants of the celebrations presented 34 names of killed persons.[4][notes 1] The Confederation of Revolutionary Trade Unions (DISK) prepared a list with 36 names.[notes 2] In another publication the name of Mehmet Ali Kol was also mentioned. Fahrettin Erdoğan, the press advisor for DISK concluded that these names taken together would raise the death toll to 42.[5]

On the day of the incident, Istanbul Radio Station announced that 34 people had been killed and 126 persons had been injured. According to the autopsy reports only four victims had been killed by bullets. In three cases the cause of death could either be a bullet or injuries to the head and 27 victims had been crushed. Several witnesses stated that Meral Özkol had been overrun by an armoured vehicle.[6]

"Democracy"!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taksim_...nter-Guerrilla

Ever since the Taksim Square Massacre, the fact that none of the perpetrators were caught and brought to justice has fueled allegations that the Turkish branch of Operation Gladio, the Counter-Guerrilla, was involved. One of the first persons to raise such allegations was the then leader of the opposition Bülent Ecevit.[10] At a meeting in Izmir, he said on 7 May: "Some organizations and forces within the State, but outside the control of the democratic State of law, have to be taken under control without losing time. The counter-guerrilla is running an offensive and has a finger in the 1 May incident."[11] Later he declined to comment on the incident, just like the then Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel. But in a confidential letter Demirel sent to Ecevit, he warned his rival that he might become the victim of the same circles, if he would speak at Taksim Square on 3 June 1977. The letter that was disclosed by Ecevit warned that shots might be fired from Sheraton Hotel. The forces to conduct such an attack in order to spoil the stability of Turkey Demirel were suspected to be "illegal communist or terrorist organizations" or "foreign enterprises or international terrorist organizations" that had been encouraged by the incidents on Taksim Square on 1 May 1977.[12]

Since the beginning, the CIA has been suspected of involvement. After the incident, Ali Kocaman, chair of the trade union Oleyis, stated that police officers and Americans had been in the Intercontinental Hotel that had been closed to the public for that day.[7] Bülent Uluer, the then Secretary General of the Revolutionary Youth Federation (Turkish: Devrimci Gençlik) said on 2 May 1977: "Most victims were among us. About 15 of our friends died. This was a plan of the CIA, but not the beginning nor the end. To solve these incidents, one has to look at it from the angle."[1]

Former Turkish prime minister Bülent Ecevit recalled he had learned of the existence of Counter-Guerrilla, the Turkish "stay-behind" armies for the first time in 1974.[13] At the time, the commander of the Turkish army, General Semih Sancar, had allegedly informed him the US had financed the unit since the immediate post-war years, as well as the National Intelligence Organization (Turkish: Millî İstihbarat Teşkilâtı, MIT). Ecevit declared he suspected Counter-Guerrilla's involvement in the 1977 Taksim Square massacre in Istanbul, The next year, the demonstrators were met with bullets. According to Ecevit, the shooting lasted for twenty minutes, yet several thousand policemen on the scene did not intervene. This mode of operation recalls the June 20, 1973 Ezeiza massacre in Buenos Aires, when the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance (aka Triple A), founded by José López Rega (a P2 member), opened up fire on the left-wing Peronists.

According to an article in the leftist pro-Kurdish Kurtuluş magazine,[14] MIT deputy chief Hiram Abas was present on the May Day massacre. (Swiss historian Daniele Ganser says that Abas was a CIA agent;[15] the CIA's station chief in Istanbul, Duane Clarridge, spoke glowingly of him.[16]) The Hotel International, from which the shots were fired, belonged to ITT Corporation, which had already been involved in financing the September 11, 1973 coup against Salvador Allende in Chile and was on good terms with the CIA. Hiram Abas had been trained in the US in covert action operations and as an MIT agent first gained notoriety in Beirut, where he co-operated with the Mossad from 1968 to 1971 and carried out attacks, "targeting left-wing youths in the Palestinian camps and receiving bounty for the results he achieved in actions".[14]

2011-2012:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011%E...ests_in_Turkey

20 April

On 20 April, police fired live rounds at protesters in Bismil. One protester was killed, four were injured, and at least 16 were arrested. The incident drew outrage from the Kurdish community, with Selahattin Demirtaş canceling a planned meeting with President Abdullah Gül in Ankara over the shooting.[5] [37][38]

Newroz protests

18 and 19 March

after the BDP and PKK both called for protests, tens of thousands of protesters came together in Diyarbakir waving Kurdish flags and holding up posters of Abdullah Ocalan, chanting "long live the leader Apo," and "the PKK is the people." Hundreds of riot police backed by armored vehicles and helicopters took up strategic positions in the city to prevent several marches from coming together in one large crowd. This resulted in widespread rioting all over the city in which rioters burned down at least four mobile telephone relay stations. In Istanbul police tried to prevent two groups of 1,000 protesters from coming together. Haci Zengin, the head of an Istanbul branch of the BDP, was killed during the protests after being hit on the head by a tear gas canister. Police detained 106 people at the demonstration[72] and nine were injured[73]


20 March

Two police officers were shot in Yuksekova in Hakkari province. In Batman, Ahmet Turk was taken to hospital after suffering from the effects of teargas fired to disperse crowds at the protests he was attending, a total of 15 people were injured during protests in the city. In Şanlıurfa police fired pressurized water as well as live ammunition at a protest attended by Leyla Zana, in which one protester was arrested. In Mersin a great number of protesters were also arrested. In Cirze over 5,000 protesters clashed with police, hurling petrol bombs and fireworks at the police. Police also clashed with demonstrators in Istanbul. A total of 24 people were injured.[74] One of the policemen injured in Yuksekova died of his wounds the next day.[75]

21 March

Protests continued for a fourth day. Though less violent than the protests on previous days, this marked the most violent Nowruz celebration since the 1990s. At the same day PKK attacks killed 5 policemen in the mountains outside Sirnak and injured one in a bombing of the AKP's Diyarbakir headquarters.[76]

These are only the protests/terrorist activities which resulted to deaths. Dealing with all the police violence incidents in Turkey is a task that someone could dedicate his/her whole life at studying and researching it.

[Petros Houhoulis]

AKP dictatorship will end some day!!!

Yes, no doubt about it, the AKP dictatorship shall end some day. That day another dictatorship shall take over. I wonder who shall fall onto the role of the Deep state Kemalists and the AKP Islamists in the future. Do you have any ideas?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_state