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Bagis hints departure…

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

[Tim Drayton]

This is CCTV footage showing the suspect who was arrested and then released yesterday in the investigation into Ali İsmail Korkmaz's murder, a bus driver with the initials S.K., standing with a club in his hand and chatting casually with a number of uniformed police officers:

http://webtv.radikal.com.tr/turkiye/434 ... bette.aspx

[Tim Drayton]

Abdullah Yaşa has been awarded 15,000 euro by the European Court of Human Rights in compensation for the injuries that the he suffered in 2006 when a tear gas canister was fired from close range directly at his face.

http://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/?hn=429158&kn=7&ka=4&kb=7

Gezi looks like it will end up being a very costly exercise for Turkey when similar cases make it to the ECHR. It is unfortunate that the Turkish taxpayer will have to foot the bill rather than those who are responsible.

[Tim Drayton]

Another nail in the coffin of the AKP government’s strategy to fight the peaceful protests in opposition to its increasingly autocratic rule! The AKP had attempted to justify the attacks on protestors by cleaver and club wielding thugs as being the genuine outrage of small businesspeople whose businesses are being adversely affected by the Gezi protests. Now Tarkan Konar, making a public statement on behalf of business owners in the Beyoğlu area of Istanbul close to Taksim, has said that, “As in society at large, among small businesspeople, just as there are those who physically or morally support the protests, there are those who oppose them.” He also said, “Genuine small businesspeople can have nothing to do with guns, cleavers, knives and clubs.”

http://www.radikal.com.tr/turkiye/beyog ... ji-1142063

[Tim Drayton]

[...] and the people of Turkey demonstrate clearly that they are very creative (i.e. standing man) in this thinking.

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Yet another example of the creativity behind the Gezi movement (which, to sound a note of caution, is not supported by the Turkish people in their entirety) is the following clip, already being dubbed 'Animate Gezi', which puts across the Gezi message in cartoon form. It is mostly visual, so anyone watching can get the vast bulk of the message:

http://webtv.radikal.com.tr/turkiye/437 ... syonu.aspx

[repulsewarrior]

...thanks Tim, enjoyed that.

[Tim Drayton]

A lengthy and thought-provoking article (in English) about the Gezi protests, from a left-wing perspective:

http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/12 ... ritarianis

The author's basic thesis is that the AKP is defending neo-liberalism in its attempts to crush the protests.

[Maximus]

The prime minister’s recently appointed chief adviser Yiğit Bulut has said he would die for Recep Tayyip Erdoğan if it was necessary, speaking during a TV program on private broadcaster A Haber.

“We were fooled in the past. A person cannot always stand in the same place when he thinks, sees and realizes,” Bulut said. “Today, I would die for Erdoğan if necessary. There are millions like me.”

A commenter by the name of OZman Cometh says:

If this dude can change perhaps there is hope for all the narrow viewed, partisan countrymen of ours. Not sure about the telekinesis bit . Open your eyes people.

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/i-am-r ... sCatID=338

[Tim Drayton]

The AKP mayor of Safranbolu, Necdet Aksoy, went to the police headquarters to file a complaint about an assault he had suffered. As he was leaving the building, he was photographed by a local newspaper reporter, Ayhan Yıldırım, and he immediately proceeded to punch the reporter in the face, causing him injury (the reporter is pictured below, following the punch). The AKP gets worse by the day.



http://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/?hn=429602&kn=7&ka=4&kb=7

[Tim Drayton]

The prime minister’s recently appointed chief adviser Yiğit Bulut has said he would die for Recep Tayyip Erdoğan if it was necessary, speaking during a TV program on private broadcaster A Haber.

“We were fooled in the past. A person cannot always stand in the same place when he thinks, sees and realizes,” Bulut said. “Today, I would die for Erdoğan if necessary. There are millions like me.”

A commenter by the name of OZman Cometh says:

If this dude can change perhaps there is hope for all the narrow viewed, partisan countrymen of ours. Not sure about the telekinesis bit . Open your eyes people.

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/i-am-r ... sCatID=338

The appointment of this lunatic - who recently alleged that the German airline Lufthansa was trying to murder Prime-Minister Erdoğan using telekinesis - by Erdoğan as an adviser, at a time when he desperately needs to compromise and seek dialogue with his opponnets, shows the extent to which he has lost the plot.