Türkiye

Police Block Istanbul’s Gezi Park As Peace Protests Erupt

September 1, 2013 AFP, www.france24.com Resist! Syria, Türkiye, Worker Rights and Jobs

There were also further protests across Turkey against military action in Syria. In the southern Turkish town of Antakya, close to the Syrian border, which has a large Alawite community, the same faith shared by Assad, some 2,000 people on Sunday protested their opposition to any military intervention in Syria. "No to war, resistance, Syria! Greetings to the Syrian people who do not bend to imperialism!" chanted the demonstrators, according to an AFP photographer at the scene. Up to 30,000 people protested in Diyarbakir, the main city in the south-east Anatolia, where the majority of the population is Kurdish. They called on the Turkish government to revive the peace process as fighting flares in Syria between Kurds and Islamists.

Global Unrest Defines a Fearless Summer of Protest

August 23, 2013 Graciela Razo, www.occupy.com Resist! Brazil, Democracy, Environment, Fearless Summer, Finance and the Economy, Türkiye, Worker Rights and Jobs

The summer of 2013 has seen some of the largest, most vocal mass protests around the world since 2011. When sparks flew out of Turkey’s struggle to save Istanbul’s last standing green space in Gezi Park, other parts of the world took note: people exercised power through occupations, strikes and blockades from Frankfurt, Germany to Sanford, Florida and beyond. While the demonstrations have shaken many people out of complacency, institutional powers have also sat up. An escalated war on whistleblowers, Orwellian surveillance state tactics and diminishing civil liberties have stacked up. But after a fearless summer of mass mobilizations, the world’s protesters are resisting more now than ever before.

Video: Taksim Commune: Gezi Park And The Uprising In Turkey

August 6, 2013 Brandon Jourdan and Marianne Maeckelbergh, www.globaluprisings.org Educate! Türkiye, Video

This short documentary tells the story of the occupation of Gezi Park, the eviction on July 15, 2013, and the protests that have continued in the aftermath. It includes interviews with many participants and footage never before seen. Since the end of May 2013, political unrest has swept across Turkey. In Istanbul, a large part of the central Beyoğlu district became a battle zone for three consecutive weeks with conflicts continuing afterward. So far five people have died and thousands have been injured. The protests were initially aimed at rescuing Istanbul’s Gezi Park from being demolished as part of a large scale urban renewal project. The police used extreme force during a series of police attacks that began on May 28th 2013 and which came to a dramatic head in the early morning hours of Friday May 31st when police attacked protesters sleeping in the park.

Police Block Wedding Ceremony In Istanbul’s Gezi Park

July 24, 2013 By, www.huffingtonpost.com Organize! Türkiye

Police on Saturday fired water cannon and tear gas in downtown Istanbul to disperse anti-government demonstrators after barring them from entering a park where they had hoped to celebrate the wedding of a couple who met during last month's widespread protests. The clash occurred after police closed Gezi Park near Istanbul's landmark Taksim Square, then forced demonstrators to a pedestrian street and fired the water cannon, according to the private Dogan news agency. Police also chased some protesters down side streets and fired tear gas, according to the websites of Radikal and Hurriyet newspapers. No casualties were immediately reported. The newly married couple and hundreds of protesters were later allowed into Gezi Park, where photographs were taken. But the crowd was soon again forced out of the park, apparently after it began to chant anti-government slogans.

Video: Turkey United/Istanbul United

July 24, 2013 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Türkiye, Video

A video showing the arc of protests in Istanbul (so far). The video was made by Ron Wiles, which includes Jenna Pope's photos from Turkey, and the song that was composed by Klavierkunst (Davide Martello) while he had his piano in Taksim Square. The combination of beautiful music and photos tells the story of the peaceful, nonviolent resistance movement and the violent response by the government of Turkey.

The Roots of Social Rebellion? Social Movements

July 12, 2013 Sreeram Chaulia, www.fpif.org Educate! Brazil, Egypt, Türkiye

Like Rome, the revolution is never built in a single day. In Bishara’s words, the Arab Spring was “fermented” by countless civil society activists, neighborhood organizers, human rights advocates, and nondescript political associations that chipped away at tyrannical regimes during “largely unreported years.” Workers who rose up at the Mahallah textile factory in 2006 in Egypt and the miners agitating against mistreatment in the mining belt of Qafsa in Tunisia in 2008 were some of the forefathers who seeded the ultimate downfall of despots in these countries. The common intellectual lesson from the streets of Brazil, Turkey, and the Arab world is to avoid underestimating half-baked social movements still in their infancy.

Video: Police Attack Thousands of Turkish Protesters

July 7, 2013 Staff, www.aljazeera.com Resist! Police abuse, Türkiye

Turkish riot police have fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse about 3,000 demonstrators who tried to enter a park adjacent to Istanbul's Taksim Square, the heart of recent protests against the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The Taksim Solidarity Platform, made up of a combination of political groups, had called for a march on Saturday to enter the sealed off Gezi park, but the governor of Istanbul warned that any such gathering would be confronted by the police. "Parks are not places for protests. They must serve as a place of calm and tranquility for all people," Istanbul governor Huseyin Avni Mutlu said.

The Age of Revolution: 1989-2013, and Counting

July 6, 2013 Andrew O'Heir, www.salon.com Educate! Brazil, Edward Snowden, Egypt, Türkiye

We live in an age of revolution, and specifically of anti-elite, anti-authoritarian revolution. It’s an age that began in earnest with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and shows no signs of slowing down. Edward Snowden, who on Friday was reportedly offered asylum by both Nicaragua and Venezuela, is in his own way a soldier in that revolution, one who has exposed the secrets of the world’s greatest imperial power and made it look both foolish and vulnerable. That’s the thread that connects this week’s explosive news out of Egypt to the bizarre episode of the Bolivian president’s airplane, which was forced to land in Vienna (almost certainly at the behest of someone in Washington), based on false rumors that Snowden might be on board. Screw national sovereignty – the most powerful nation on earth is hunting a computer nerd! In other words, both these things are driving powerful people crazy.

Breaking: Protesters and Police Clash in Gezi Park Protest

July 6, 2013 Staff, www.hurriyetdailynews.com Resist! Türkiye

Police has intervened firing tear gas and water cannons against few thousands of protesters who were starting to gather at Istanbul’s İstiklal Avenue ahead of a mass demonstration. The pedestrian İstiklal Avenue is one of the main junctions intersecting with Taksim Square, which is adjacent to Gezi Park. Protesters were organizing a "water fight" event in order to peacefully denounce police's repeated crackdowns using water cannons, which contain water mixed with the same chemical substances as the pepper spray, when security forces intervened. The Taksim Solidarity Platform has called for a demonstration to "enter" the park today. "The Constitution says that anyone can stage a demonstration without giving notification, but the legislation says that applying to the authorities for permission is mandatory. So nobody can say they exercise their constitutional rights. This is unlawful," Gov. Hüseyin Avni Mutlu told reporters.

Gezi Park Round II?

July 6, 2013 Staff, taksimdayanisma.org Organize! Türkiye

We are going to our park to deliver the court decision by hand, which cancels the project aimed to disidentify, depopulate and concretize Gezi Park, to the ones who shut the park down to the people. We are going to our park to open its doors to its real owners, so to everyone again. With all the colors that make us who we are, with unwavering common sense, endurance, determination and incredible creativity, we are still together in every sphere of life. We have not given up on our demands and gains and we will never do so. To commemorate our losses, to remind our demands and to condemn the violence that is yet to exist in the entire Turkey, we meet on Saturday (July, 6) at 7 PM in Taksim Square

Popular Resistance Newsletter – Organized Resistance Brings Sweeping Change, Lessons for US

July 4, 2013 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter Brazil, Chelsea Manning, Egypt, Fearless Summer, Freedom of Speech and Assembly, NSA, Türkiye

The big story of the week was Egypt. Protests organized by Tamarod (Rebel) that have been building for months, resulted in the biggest protest in Egypt’s history, four days of mass protest beginning on June 30 that ended the rule of President Mohamed Morsi. More than a week ago, Tamarod recommended that the head of the Egyptian Constitutional Court become the interim president and that is what the Egyptian military announced. The military made the announcement after lengthy meetings with religious groups, including minority religions; opposing political parties, including a Muslim party; and civil society including Tamarod.

Turkish Court Blocks Plans to Re-make Gezi Park

July 4, 2013 Ayla Jean Yackley, www.Reuters.com Organize! Türkiye

A Turkish court has canceled an Istanbul building project backed by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan which provided the trigger for nationwide anti-government demonstrations last month, a copy of the court decision showed. Authorities may well appeal against cancellation of plans for a replica Ottoman-era barracks on Istanbul's Taksim Square. But the ruling marked a victory for a coalition of political forces and a blow for Erdogan, who stood fast against protests and riots he said were stoked by terrorists and looters. Can Atalay, a lawyer for the Chamber of Architects which brought the lawsuit, said the administrative court ruled in early June at the height of the unrest that the plan violated preservation rules and unacceptably changed the square's identity. It was not clear why it had only now been released. "This decision applies to all of the work at Taksim Square ... The public-works project that was the basis for the work has been canceled," Atalay told Reuters.

Open Letter From Egyptian Revolutionaires

July 3, 2013 Comrades from Cairo, www.roarmag. Strategize! Brazil, Egypt, Solidarity, Türkiye

We draw hope and inspiration from recent uprisings especially across Turkey and Brazil. Each is born out of different political and economic realities, but we have all been ruled by tight circles whose desire for more has perpetuated a lack of vision of any good for people. We are inspired by the horizontal organization of the Free Fare Movement founded in Bahía, Brazil in 2003 and the public assemblies spreading throughout Turkey. None of us are fighting in isolation. We face common enemies from Bahrain, Brazil and Bosnia, Chile, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Kurdistan, Tunisia, Sudan, the Western Sahara and Egypt. And the list goes on.

Taksim Square Protest: Turkey Isn’t Egypt Or Libya, and Occupy Gezi Isn’t the Arab Spring

July 1, 2013 Merve Tahiroglu, , www.policymic.com Organize! Türkiye

As some protesters and media groups have put it, the events in Turkey may be compared to the Arab Spring in many ways, especially with the role of social media and the demands for “freedom.” But to compare the reasons behind the protests in Turkey and those nations, and to compare Erdogan to Mubarak, Qaddafi, or Assad would be a serious misinterpretation of both movements. Let's make something clear: Erdogan might talk and act like a dictator, but he is not an actual dictator and Turkey is not a dictatorship as the Arab Spring nations were at the time. Turkey has been a secular republic since 1923, and has had a multi-party system of parliamentary democracy since the 1950s. This is not a “Turkish Spring,” and to call it that would undermine the meaning of both the Arab Spring and the current movement in Turkey.

Turkish Security Forces Fire on Kurdish Protesters, One Dead, 11 Injured

June 28, 2013 Staff, www.islamicinvitationturkey.com Resist! Police abuse, Türkiye

Turkish security forces killed one person and wounded six on Friday when they fired on a group protesting against the construction of a new gendarmerie outpost in Kurdish-dominated southeastern Turkey, officials said. The shooting, which occurred in the village of Kayacik in the Lice district of Diyarbakir province, was likely to stoke tension among the weekend marchers, although leaders stressed the rallies would be peaceful. Diyarbakir Governor Cahit Kirac said around 200 protesters marched on Friday onto the construction site where the outpost was being built to replace an existing one, with some throwing petrol bombs and setting fire to workers’ tents. “At this point, the soldiers fired warning shots and a riot broke out. There were then reports of one person being killed and six people being wounded, two of them seriously. These reports are not confirmed, we are investigating,” Kirac said.

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