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[Kikapu]

More on the kebab spring…

“Turkish markets tumble as protests unsettle investors”

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/ ... E120130603

Turkish Lira has been on a downward spiral against other major currencies for the last 2 weeks. I guess upgrades by credit agencies on Turkey hasn't been that good after all. Imports have climbed also, since Turkey is no longer able to hide expenses for fuel with Iran, disguised as gold exports. Talk about "smoking mirrors" economy when Turkey was able to show $20 Billion USD as gold exports that went to pay Iran for the gas behind the scenes and not showing $20 Billion USD as imports for the same gas from Iran.

Borsa Istanbul Stock Exchange National 100 Index

78,814.58.....down 7,228.96.......down 8.34%

http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/XU100:IND

I want to record this for historical purposes. The Index was 93,000+ only few days ago and it closed on 03/06/13 at :

XU100:IND 76,983.69 .......down 9,006.32 .......down 10.47%..........WOW!

[Demonax]

Superb article on how Erdogan has badly miscalculated with his brutal crackdown:

ERDOGAN OVER THE EDGE

The unrest roiling Turkey is not about Gezi Park, though it would have been poetic if it had been: the park was once an Armenian cemetery, appropriated by the government and transformed into a barracks after the Armenians “abandoned” it. The protests are about authoritarianism, plain and simple. What will happen now is anyone’s guess. The demonstrators are disorganized, and while they know what they don’t want, they aren’t sure what they do want. The opposition parties are hopeless. Politicians do not resign in Turkey generally; Tayyip Erdoğan certainly won’t. But he has damaged himself greatly and unleashed an unpredictable evil upon a land that has already known far too much of it. How strange that such a shrewd politician should make so grievous a tactical blunder. Then again, it is well known that whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad.

http://www.city-journal.org/2013/eon0603cb.html

[Get Real!]

He’s gone to Morocco and Tunisia to find solace among other failed Muslim rulers.

[Maximus]

He’s gone to Morocco and Tunisia to find solace among other failed Muslim rulers.

Isn't he going to Gaza soon too?

[Get Real!]

He’s gone to Morocco and Tunisia to find solace among other failed Muslim rulers.

Isn't he going to Gaza soon too?

That’s just showing off… I doubt he’d make it out of there alive after all the atrocities he committed against Syria and verbal attacks against Israel.

Pretty much everyone hates him now.

[bill cobbett]

Fifth night of clashes in Istanbul and elsewhere in Turkey.

Massive demonstrations in several neighbourhoods of Istanbul, but nowhere near the same brutal over-reaction from the "police".

Friends report that many people who have been using Twitter to spread info on safe places to take refuge, places to get treatment for injuries etc have been arrested and that people have been "visited" with suggestions to remove vids from places like youtube, erase blog entries etc.

Pro-democracy demonstrations in the south-eastern town of Antakya were particularly severely dealt with by the "police" this past evening.

Here's a brief vid on the night's events in Antakya...

[Tim Drayton]

Wouldn't surprise me if shortly there is a staged massive pro akp rally....

It seems that the AKP party machine is trying to rally its supporters (and it has many) to stage a large demonstration at the airport to welcome Erdoğan back from his north African visit.

http://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/?hn=420910&kn=7&ka=4&kb=7

[bill cobbett]

Wouldn't surprise me if shortly there is a staged massive pro akp rally....

It seems that the AKP party machine is trying to rally its supporters (and it has many) to stage a large demonstration at the airport to welcome Erdoğan back from his north African visit.

http://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/?hn=420910&kn=7&ka=4&kb=7

Yes and some of Caliph Erdogan's supporters couldn't wait to welcome the bugger back and have already taken to the streets in his support... and with no sign of CS gas, plastic bullets etc...

Here's a vid of their demo...

[Maximus]

A third person is pronounced dead

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/third- ... sCatID=341

[Maximus]

Mr Davutoglu, the spin doctor of the "zero problems" policy has finally surfaced to comment since the protests started a week ago. Three people have been pronounced dead, about one thousand arrested and many more left seriously injured.

“These sorts of incidents happen everywhere and they are considered unexceptional. Then why are they regarded extraordinary when happening in Turkey? There is not a second class democracy in Turkey. In democracies, these protests may happen. There is a right to demonstrations in Turkey. We respect peaceful demonstrators, but there are ones who abuse,”. Recalling the protests on wall street as an example.

For him it seems that this is normal, there's nothing to worry about. Its the protestors who abused that are to blame for the way the police handled it. Erdogan has accused anti-government protesters of walking "arm-in-arm with terrorism", three days after the protests began.

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkis ... sCatID=338