Demonstrations Aganist Erdogan is going on in Turkey!

haydar · Jun 3, 2013

The fire is started from a peacefull tree defending in a park. Where Erdogan wanted to cut the trees and to build a Shopping Mall under the mask of rebuild an historical barrack.

This area is last green park in the city centre and a small group of activist set up a camp in the park to defend the green.
This totally peacefull action is divided with very strict attack of police officers with tear gasses and violance. In fact there was a report from the experts which banns to set up such a project here but Erdogan said that ''he decided and he will set this project here''. A few hippies can't block him.

The police attack is shown in social media and made a flash effect on people who really get bored of Erdogan's despotic decisions who doesn't listen the laws and who acts like an dictator. Last months his anti nature projects and banns with islamic refferences were disturbing the secular and democratic people in Turkey.

Erdogan always reffers %50 voters of him but he forgat that other %50 who are was well educated and activist part of the Turkey.
In the leadership of greens and some left activists the resistance started aganist his bully projects and his despotic banns. Later that the big quantity of the secular people exploded. Erdogan was already doing islamist declarations lately he told that these actions are own to few marginals, alcholics and scrap people.

Now at the 6th day of the resistance all around of the Turkey milions of people walking with flags fighting with police for their rights. Erdogan still doesn't leave his despotic speeches and ordering the press not to show the resistance, ordering police to be as strict as they can be. At leats 1 people died, tousands of people injured. This crowded is very angry and also from Erdogan's voters many people is angry to his despotic speeches.

We will see how the events will go on...

For Freedom and anti dictatorship, and protect our secular republic and no war in Syria; I support this resistance
#occupytaksim#

waltky · Jun 4, 2013

Protesters gaining a broader base...

Unions join forces with Turkish protesters
Tue June 4, 2013 > Riot police move water cannon to Ankara square; Deputy prime minister apologizes for police aggression in initial protests; Public-sector unions join demonstrations against Erdogan; He says the demonstrations are the work of "extreme elements"

A top Turkish official apologized for the "police aggression" that fueled nationwide protests against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as trade unions threw their weight behind the demonstrations Tuesday. The 240,000-member KESK confederation of public-sector workers called for a two-day strike to protest what it called the "fascism" of Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party. The protests began over plans to replace an Istanbul park with a new development, but spread nationwide after a heavy-handed crackdown by police. After chaotic scenes in the streets Monday that continued late into the night and sent tear gas wafting through the air, the situation was relatively calm Tuesday in Istanbul's Taksim Square, near the park where the protest movement began, and in the capital Ankara.

Riot police around Ankara's central Kizilay Square brought in armored vehicles topped with water cannon in a show of force Tuesday evening, but the demonstrations throughout the day were calm. The protests have morphed into larger complaints against Erdogan, who has led Turkey for 10 years. His critics call him paternalistic and authoritarian, accusing him of accumulating more and more power and growing less tolerant of dissent. In Istanbul, the crowds have been chanting "Tayyip resign" -- referring to Erdogan -- and "shoulder to shoulder against fascism."

Police, protestors clash in Ankara, Turkey

Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc apologized Tuesday "for the police aggression against our citizens who were involved in the initial protests and acted with environmental concern," Turkey's semiofficial Anadolu news agency reported. He said security forces had been ordered to only use gas in self-defense. "They are doing a hard job. When they are executing their jobs, they may sometimes use extraordinary, even excessive, use of force. But they wait in a passive mode unless something comes from the other side," Arinc said. And he added, "I don't think we owe an apology to those who caused destruction on the streets and who interfered with people's freedom."

The Turkish Medical Association said that at least 3,195 people were injured in clashes Sunday and Monday, with 26 in serious or critical condition. Most of the injuries were in Istanbul. One protester, Mehmet Ayvalitas, died of his injuries, the medical association said. And the governor of Hatay in southeastern Turkey said that a 22-year-old man, Abdulah Comert, was killed with a firearm by unknown people during demonstrations late Monday, Anadolu reported. Erdogan's opponents appear determined to continue the demonstrations despite the prime minister's comment Monday that he expects the situation to return to normal "within a few days." Erdogan, who left the country Monday on a four-day trip to North Africa, has responded by dismissing the demonstrations as the work of "extreme elements" and marginal groups. "My smart citizens will recognize this, then they will give them the right lesson," he said Monday.

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Turkish media slammed for poor riot coverage
Jun 4,`13 -- Dense clouds of acrid, choking tear gas may have been blanketing the central square of Turkey's largest city, but it was penguins that dominated the evening on one of the country's largest private television stations. Its nature documentary ran uninterrupted, while another channel opted for a cooking show and a documentary on Adolf Hitler.

As Istanbul was convulsed by some of the most severe anti-government protests Turkey has seen in decades, the country's broadcast media looked away. Regular newscasts briefly mentioned the protest, before moving on to other topics. There was no word of the violence, of the riot police clashing with protesters for hours, or of the many injured in what even Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan later said might have been unnecessarily heavy-handed tactics. Turks were outraged. They turned to social media in droves; Twitter and Facebook updates were virtually the only means of finding out what was going on in Istanbul, where tens of thousands of protesters were facing off against riot police.

A furious Erdogan lashed out. "There is now a menace which is called Twitter," he said Sunday, dismissing the protests as demonstrations organized by an extremist fringe. "The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society." But to many in Istanbul, it was a lifeline. As word spread through cyberspace, more and more people crowded onto Taksim Square, where protests began last Friday over government plans to rip up trees in neighboring Gezi Park to make way for reconstructed Ottoman-era barracks and a shopping mall. Eventually, the outcry was too loud to ignore. Television stations gradually began showing snippets of the protests during the weekend, until many had near-blanket coverage by Monday night.

But the damage had been done. In the days of protest that have ensued, demonstrators held up placards lambasting the media, criticizing them for keeping the public in this country of about 75 million uninformed and turning a blind eye to events that quickly spread from Istanbul to the capital, Ankara, and other cities. On Sunday and Monday, protesters converged outside the offices of the private NTV and HaberTurk television stations. Some held placards depicting the country's three main private television stations as the three wise monkeys, who see no evil, speak no evil and hear no evil. In Taksim, protesters overturned an NTV satellite van, smashing its equipment and ripping the doors almost off their hinges. The battered, graffiti-covered shell still stood on the square on Tuesday morning.

In a country where authorities have few qualms about jailing outspoken journalists, many have accused the media - particularly TV - of self-censorship, shying away from anything that could anger the establishment and Erdogan's government. Some television personalities turned to more subtle ways of making their views known. A popular quiz show on the Bloomberg-HT channel, Word Game, made the protests the theme of Monday night's competition. Host Ihsan Varol asked competitors what "must be done to decrease tension?" The correct answer was one of the protesters' main demands of the heavy-handed police in Istanbul and other cities: "Withdrawal."

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haydar · Jun 5, 2013

This is not a Turkish Spring...

The reaction is a civil protest aganist to Erdoğan's totaliter speechs.
Erdoğan doesn't know what does democracy means. He is trying to be only person who can decide for everything because he has %50 of the votes.

And recently he started to refer Islam when he explain the banns in social life such as to forbit to sell alcohol after 22:00.
Turkey is a secular regime and can't accept this kind of laws. He forgat something people from his voters also there is big quantity who belives the secular regime.

If Erdogan apoligise for the violance maden by Police to civil people and if he apoligize that he described protestors as alcholic and useless people this people will be calm.
Protester profile of these event are mostly intellectual and educated people. their educational average even better than many european countries.
This people can decide better than Erdogan which is good for country. They collect the rubbish everynight after demonstration and they already set up a libliary in the protest area.
Doctors, Engineer, Teachers, and University Students e.g. are the main organiser of the protests.

Xanadu · Jun 5, 2013

haydar said: ↑

We will see how the events will go on...

For Freedom and anti dictatorship, and protect our secular republic and no war in Syria; I support this resistance
#occupytaksim#
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What will happen next is the organisation of the (angry/emotional) demonstrators. The system is using politics, mass media, unions and their communicators to organize them. This is how people are loosing their freedom. Angry and emotional people can be organized easier.
Resistance (struggle with the system/politics) leads to dictatorship in the end, knowledge that resistance is leading to dictatorship will keep you free (because then people could see their own organization approaching/going on, now they can't)

ThirdTerm · Jun 5, 2013

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This seems like the Turkish occupy movement and the protesters are mainly complaining about Erdogan's Islamist government's increasingly authoritarian and conservative nature. Erdogan is turning his back on Turkey's traditional secularism, which makes Turkey's accession to the EU more difficult, and the liberal-minded Turks are not happy with the country's current path to become another Arab state.

waltky · Jun 5, 2013

Taksim Square ground zero for Turkish Spring?...

Taksim Square ground zero for Turkish Spring?...

Who Are Turkey’s Protesters?
1 June`13 > The View From Taksim Square

I was, in my capacity as a reporter, among the thousands of citizens who thronged the streets of central Istanbul on May 31 in what some are labeling “A Turkish Spring” and “A Turkish Occupy” movement. Other commentators have resorted to the lazy old clichés of “secularists versus Islamists.” Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan insists they are "provocateurs." None of these capture the nature of protests that have engulfed the country. These began when police staged a predawn operation on May 31 to disperse citizens who were demonstrating peacefully against a government-backed development project that would uproot dozens of trees in Taksim Square. The diversity of the protesters defies any such neat categorization.

Destination Taksim

It was close to 8 p.m. as I inched my way along Istiklal Avenue, one of the main commercial arteries leading up to the square. When I hit the historic Francophone Galatasaray Lycee, the crowds grew. I could barely move. Amid all the clapping and chanting, there was one common refrain, “Erdogan resign! Government resign!” Early on, I encountered a group of young men and women who were all wearing the same white and yellow masks to shield themselves from the acrid stench of tear gas that pierced the air. They said they worked for an advertising company. "Our boss printed special T-shirts for us and gave us the masks; he encouraged us to be here,” Selin Bayraktar told Al-Monitor. “Why would he do that?” I asked. “We initially joined the demonstrators to protect our trees, nothing political,” explained Bayraktar. But when Erdogan, “imperiously” waved aside their objections, declaring that the project would proceed, “something snapped,” she said. “We are not for or against any political party, we are against dictatorship, Erdogan is a dictator, write this if you dare.”

Riot police use tear gas to disperse the crowd during anti-government protests at Taksim Square in central Istanbul

Farther on, members of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) linked arms to form a human chain. There may have been around 50-60 of them. I couldn’t quite tell, but they were a minority. Ilhan Cihaner, a CHP lawmaker, nodded at me bleary-eyed. “Pepper gas,” he said. “The protests will continue until the park is saved. But it's not just about the park, it's about this repressive regime: People are fed up. They have to go.” Never mind that CHP members on the city council voted in favor of the project. Time to move on. As I get closer to Taksim, the smoke thickens. I feel dizzy and my lungs begin to burn.

The scenes are increasingly chaotic. Water cannons spray the crowd. Police in riot gear are dragging a man toward an armored van. “For me, it's only about the trees, nothing else. I voted for Erdogan,” piped up an unfazed 30-something housewife, her hair covered Islamic-style. “Destroying all the green space, where will my kids play? It's not right.” And her name? “No need,” she responded as a youth with a pierced nose and tattooed arms sprayed a milky liquid on her face. “It's for the tear gas,” he explained. His name was Mert and he was in his final year at the nearby German Lycee. Were his parents worried about him? “No, they support me. Look, we are talking about one and a half million trees.” What? Had he seen the park? It couldn’t even fit a hundred, let alone a million. Disinformation, it seemed, was flowing as fast as the gas. He shrugged and continued to spray.

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As Turks Challenge Their Leader’s Power, He Tries to Expand It
June 3, 2013 — After days of demonstrations that have presented Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan with his worst political crisis in more than a decade of power, the Turkish leader responded on Monday with a supremely confident flourish: he simply turned his back and left, boarding a plane to start a four-day good-will tour of Northern Africa.

Throughout the recent upheaval, Mr. Erdogan’s behavior has given new fuel to already-simmering questions about his aims and methods — whether he has turned more autocrat than democrat, or at the least whether a deft politician has fallen into overconfidence. Mr. Erdogan’s political rise has been widely seen as the catalyst for a new era of Turkish influence and prosperity, and he has cast his government as a democratic model for nations with Muslim populations rising up against dictators. Domestically, he has the security of a strong power base among Turkish religious conservatives — a majority of the electorate — who were marginalized by the military and the country’s old secular elite. He alluded to that support on Monday, as protests continued across Turkey’s major cities. He said he could “hardly contain” his constituents from leaving their homes to mount a counterprotest on his behalf. “Be calm, this will all pass,” he added.

But for his opponents, his harsh dismissal of the protesters gathering in Istanbul and Ankara as “bums,” and in particular his allowing the police to crack down on what began as a peaceful demonstration against the razing of a park in Taksim Square, is public evidence of a longer slide into authoritarianism. They cite years of intensifying crackdowns on dissent and the news media, and purges of the military officer corps. “He has a highly majoritarian understanding of democracy,” said Ilter Turan, a political scientist at Bilgi University in Istanbul. “He believes that with 51 percent of the vote he can rule in an unrestrained fashion. He doesn’t want checks and balances.” And after 10 years of Mr. Erdogan (pronounced AIR-doh-wan), a former Islamist activist, many liberal or secular Turks have expressed weariness over what they see as his attempts to impose on their private lives: what Cengiz Candar, a popular columnist, described Monday as his “conceit and arrogance.”

Demonstrators ran from tear gas fired by the police during a clash in Istanbul on Monday. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is facing a political crisis.

He has sought to restrict alcohol, has repeatedly held that women should have at least three children and sometimes seems drawn to peculiar topics for pontification: this year, for example, he declared that the “era of white bread is over,” and that Turks should go whole grain. There is an added sting for many who have supported Mr. Erdogan. In his speeches, he has been an eloquent defender of inclusiveness and human rights — statements that added to his political draw among Turks who might otherwise have been put off by his Islamist past. Increasingly, however, his actions have seemed at odds with his words. Mr. Erdogan has been lionized for serving jail time for reciting a poem with religious overtones in public while he was Istanbul’s mayor. And in an interview last year with The Istanbul Review, a literary journal, he said: “Censorship is an unacceptable method of obstruction, not only in literature but in all arts, media, politics and many other fields. The freedom of expression is a right that we work to solidify every day and a subject we are particularly sensitive about.”

But in the years since he became prime minister, his government has become a leading jailer of journalists and opposition writers. And over the weekend, he was particularly vocal about protesters’ use of social media, singling out Twitter as a “menace” used to disseminate lies. Mr. Erdogan, 59, grew up in a pious, low-income neighborhood in Istanbul when Turkey was ruled by an elite that heavy-handedly banished religious expression from public life. In rising to power, he took that once-peripheral social class to the center of Turkish public life. And analysts say it will be that constituency’s reaction that determines how he weathers the current crisis. For now, it seems to be standing solidly behind him.

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haydar · Jun 6, 2013

Xanadu said: ↑

What will happen next is the organisation of the (angry/emotional) demonstrators. The system is using politics, mass media, unions and their communicators to organize them. This is how people are loosing their freedom. Angry and emotional people can be organized easier.
Resistance (struggle with the system/politics) leads to dictatorship in the end, knowledge that resistance is leading to dictatorship will keep you free (because then people could see their own organization approaching/going on, now they can't)
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The demonstrations are already reached to succsess.

Erdogan built an Afraid Empire. Milions of people gave a civil ultimatum to despotic Erdogan. And they said to him ''you can't rule this country however you want''
Demonstrations stay peacefull after police stopped to attacked. Meanwhile we saw that almost all educated, intellectuals aganist Erdogan.

And now intellectuals, journalists, students started to rise the voice aganist Erdoğan. His carisma is broken...

#occupytaksim#

Here below is link explains how events started and went on.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=472402239509898&set=vb.472013769548745&type=2&theater

waltky · Jun 11, 2013

Uncle Ferd says dat's what he would do...

Erdogan Agrees to Meet with Turkish Protesters
June 10, 2013 - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has agreed to meet with anti-government protesters, even after saying his patience with the marchers is running thin.

His deputy prime minister, Bulent Arinc, says the meeting will take place Wednesday. Arinc also warned Monday that what he calls "illegal demonstrations" will no longer be allowed in Turkey.

The protesters refused to back down Monday, even as police again used tear gas and water cannons to break up an anti government march in Istanbul. Demonstrators responded with rocks and gasoline bombs. Three people have died since the marches began 11 days ago. Thousands have been hurt and thousands of others arrested.

The opposition party accuses Erdogan of fueling tensions and dragging the country into fire. The protests started against plans to tear down a public park in Istanbul. They have since turned into protests against what marchers call the prime minister's imposition of his Islamist views on a secular nation.

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Young women the face of Turkeys protests
Tue, Jun 11, 2013 - They are young, urban and well-educated, and for the past week they have been sleeping in an Istanbul park: meet the women on the front line of Turkeys mass anti-government protests.

We are the women Erdogan would like to see staying at home, actress Sevi Algan, 37, said, referring to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who protesters say is forcing his conservative, Islamic values on the mainly Muslim, but staunchly secular nation. Many of the women happily admit they are accidental activists who never would have guessed two weeks ago that they would be pitching a tent in the epicenter of a nationwide civil unrest. Yet now these young Turks, many of them students, lawyers, teachers and office workers, account for half of the thousands of demonstrators in Gezi Park and nearby Taksim Square and they have taken to their new routine with gusto.

They spend hours under the parks sycamore trees debating their cause, take part in all-night singing and dancing sessions and, when necessary, stand shoulder-to-shoulder with soccer fans on guard against police action outside the parks police-free zone. The protest began after a small campaign to save the parks 600 trees from being razed sparked a police crackdown with tear gas and water cannon on May 31, quickly spiraling into widespread anger against the government. The unrest has injured more than 4,000 people and killed three across the country. Many of the female protesters say the time has come to stand up for their rights in the face of creeping infringements on their freedoms by Erdogans Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP).

Erdogan has won three successive elections, gaining almost 50 percent of the vote in 2011 after presiding over steady economic growth. However, critics accuse him of increasing authoritarianism and of polarizing the country. Women are on the front line because they are the first victims of Erdogans projects, Sevi said. Her list of grievances include Erdogans proposals to limit abortion rights, tighten the rules for the morning-after pill and ban the late-night sale of alcohol. Erdogan has also sparked outrage for declaring that every woman in Turkey should have three children. Would he like more children like us? Ozlem Altiok, an unemployed former flight attendant, said as she chatted with friends in Gezi Park.

Sevi said supporters of the ruling AKP consider the demonstrators bad Muslims, but she insists they are not against Islam. We like to drink, debate, but Erdogan and his people do not have a monopoly on Islam, she said. Look at the solidarity on Taksim Square. Thats what it means to be Muslim. In the park, where free food, yoga lessons and concerts are on offer, clusters of feminists and gay rights activists are camped out next to veil-wearing anti-capitalist Muslims, the sites festive atmosphere and a sense of camaraderie outweigh any ideological differences.

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