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[bill cobbett]

No, they ain't letting up.

Last few hours according to Indy media with a picky...

[Istanbul] Thousands of people have forced riot coltrol forces to retreat from Elmadağ to Talimhane. The protesters barricaded the entrance of Dolapdere. Police officers are retreating slowly.
18.04:
[Istanbul] The barricades on Siraselviler Caddesi have been removed by the police, and TOMA has taken up position there.
18.02:
[Antakya] The resistance continues at Antakya Sevgi Park. There will be a news release at 19.00.
17.59:
[Istanbul] Beşiktaş and its surroundings are calm. However a large number of riot control police are located at the region.
17.56:
[Istanbul] Police are trying to take people under custody around the monument at Taksim Square. People are protesting against police's attitude.
17.49:
[Istanbul] The conflict at Taksim Square has completed its tenth hour. Police have been attacking protesters with gaz bombs,stun grenades and pressurized water for ten straight hours.
17.46:
[Istanbul] People who have been wounded during the clashes in Harbiye are being taken to the infirmary in Gezi Park. There are hundreds of wounded.
17.43:
[Istanbul] About ten thousand people,with a certain number of people recently got sacked, around Harbiye District are marching towards the riot control forces. The attacked made by the police continues with large number of gas bombs.
17.42:
[Istanbul] Police trying to remove the barricades to the Sıraselviler direction which put by protestors.
17.35:
[Ankara] The Modern Jurists Association Ankara Branch will organize a press conference at 6:30pm (18:30pm) in Yüksel Caddesi concerning the lawyers who were beaten and taken into custody at the Caglayan Courthouse.
17.30:
[Mersin]At 6pm (18:00) in Mersin in front of the Taş Building, there will be a protest against the Taksim invasion, organized by the labor and democracy platform initiative.
17.30:
[Istanbul] The 44 lawyers who were detained at Caglayan Courthouse have been taken to Haseki Hospital for medical attention.
17.23:
[Istanbul] Clashes continue in Harbiye District. Police have been intensely attacking with stun grenades.
17.19:
[Istanbul] Police have thrown tears gases to the library in Gezi Parkı as well.
17.15:
[Istanbul] Lawyers declared that they will wait in front of Caglayan Courthouse until such time as their colleagues who were beaten and taken into custody are released.
17.15:
[Diyarbakır] The unions and other organisations will give a collective press statement this evening at 7 pm, because of the violent vacation of the Taskim Square.
17.12:
[Istanbul] People can reach Taksim Square through Kazancı Slope(Kazancı Street) and Istiklal Street.
17.11:
[Istanbul] Police forces are attacking at the Mete Avenue where an infirmary is located nearby. The wounded are affected by the attack and tearsgas.
17.10:
[Istanbul] The voluntary Doctors are giving medical treatment to a huge amount of people, while the police attacks continue. Photo (Fotoğraf: Elif İnce)
17.09:
[Istanbul] Police threw gas bombs to the center of Gezi Parkı and the area around the pool is under impact of teargas.
17.03:
[Istanbul] 5.000 people, who try to come over to the Gezi Park from the Elmadağ side, are attacked with teargas by the police.
17.02:
[Istanbul] The police fires teargas at the Gezi Park. The Teargas is noticeably from there to Tarlabaşı and Tünel (railfunicular railway).

[Cap]

[Tim Drayton]

AKP member of parliament İbrahim Yiğit criticised Prime-Minister Erdoğan in parliament today, saying:

Başbakan olaylar ve eleştiriler karşısında sinirleniyor. Yüzde 50’yi tutuyorum diyor. Türkiye’de iç savaş mı çıkaracaksınız, insanlar birbirlerini mi öldürecekler?

The prime minister gets annoyed in the face of events and criticism. He says he is holding the fifty percent back. Are you going to start a civil war in Turkey; are people going to kill one another?

http://www.radikal.com.tr/politika/ak_p ... ak-1137179

[Tim Drayton]

The reports I have seen are that clashes have continued in the Taksim area all day.
Demonstrations are planned in many places this evening throughout Turkey.

[Demonax]

Journalist Tim Pool live streaming from Taksim Square and Gezi Park:

http://www.vice.com/read/tim-pool-live- ... m-istanbul

From capulcu.fm:

http://www.capulcu.fm/

[bill cobbett]

Couple of paras from today's Amnesty International condemnation under the headline

"Increased police repression continues to go unchecked in Turkey"...

...Protests in Turkey are likely to continue to escalate unless authorities engage in meaningful discussions with activists, Amnesty International said after riot police this morning once again used tear gas and water cannon against peaceful protesters in Istanbul’s Taksim Square and Gezi Park.
The further police action against demonstrators contradicted statements by the Governor of Istanbul this morning that they would not intervene in the park.

The Istanbul Medical Association revealed that there were more casualties as a result of today’s police assault on protesters. These included nine people injured by plastic bullets, several broken limbs, a number of cases of head and chest trauma and one fractured skull.
The Turkish authorities have, so far, failed to investigate any of the reports of abuse and no one has been brought to justice.
“Instead of continuing to repress peaceful activists, the Turkish authorities should start to look at the actions of their own police and bring to justice those responsible for the shocking abuse we have seen over the past two weeks,”...

Much more criticism from Amnesty at... http://amnesty.org/en/news/increased-po ... 2013-06-11

[Demonax]

Things very heavy right now:

http://www.dha.com.tr/canli-yayin/

[Oceanside50]

Have any politicians stood up and voiced their support for these demonstrators

[Kikapu]

I think is about time the EU and USA start discussions on "arming" the protesters in Turkey to bring about True Democracy to the country than deciding in arming the rebels in Syria to continue dictatorship if they should oust Assad. I'm talking about body equipments to protect themselves from the riot police, or as Erdogan calls them, "My Police". They need helmets, gas masks, Body padding and large catapults, for them to be able to send the teargas canisters back to the riot police. Also lots of fireworks, rockets to be set off horizontally, to counter the riot police's weapons against them!

By the way, why is VP keeping quiet these days? I thought he supported Erdogan arming the rebels in Syria to bring about democracy to that country, and now he doesn't want the same to the "rebels" in Turkey. Talk about being a hypocrite.

As VP would say, "karma is a bitch sometimes". Erdogan is saying, "Tell me about it".

[Cap]

Have any politicians stood up and voiced their support for these demonstrators

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