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[Tim Drayton]

Sabri Çelebi - the man who attacked protestors with a cleaver and later absconded to Morocco for a while - has just been arrested in Istanbul.



http://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/?hn=437964&kn=7&ka=4&kb=7

[Tim Drayton]

Sabri Çelebi - the man who attacked protestors with a cleaver and later absconded to Morocco for a while - has just been arrested in Istanbul.



http://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/?hn=437964&kn=7&ka=4&kb=7

It seems that he returned to Turkey yesterday and was arrested at Sabiha Gökçen airport on re-entering the country. He spent the night in police custody and was scheduled to be brought before the courts this afternoon.

[DrCyprus]

Sorry, I'm not in the line of helping/working for the enemy that occupies my country no matter how much I consider Turkish individuals to have equal rights as humans.

(Just as I wouldn't have worked for the Germans during WW II no matter that there existed a few nice German peasants at the time. )

The bitterness and hatred that spews forth from your keyboard and onto this board is only bested by the petulant lies, racism and intolerance which your very psyche subsists upon.

[Tim Drayton]

[my translation of an article in Radikal newspaper]

It has been learnt that, in response to “intelligence that ‘Gezi’ protests may repeat themselves at universities in the autumn”, the Ministry of the Interior has sent a circular to 81 provincial governors’ offices and universities calling for precautions to be taken. According to a report by Habertürk’s Hasan Bozkurt, in the circular sent to 81 provincial governors’ offices and universities, it is requested that security meetings be held at universities before the new term, to be chaired by provincial governors and attended by rectors and police officials.

In the circular, in which it is stated that no illegal protest at all must be permitted at campuses, it is requested that special measures be taken for ministers who visit campuses.

In the ministry circular, the need is stressed for camera systems to be installed at campuses, for sufficient forces to be available in the event of protest and for law-enforcement officers to be in the vicinity of campuses on a 24-hour basis.

http://www.radikal.com.tr/turkiye/tum_y ... ni-1148292

[GreekIslandGirl]

Sorry, I'm not in the line of helping/working for the enemy that occupies my country no matter how much I consider Turkish individuals to have equal rights as humans.

(Just as I wouldn't have worked for the Germans during WW II no matter that there existed a few nice German peasants at the time. )

The bitterness and hatred that spews forth from your keyboard and onto this board is only bested by the petulant lies, racism and intolerance which your very psyche subsists upon.

You tried to accuse me of racism before, but soon showed yourself to be embittered and full of lies - so good attempt to deflect from your own shortcomings. As for hatred of the enemy that keeps my birthplace under occupation, I make no apologies. But I wish it weren't so and that Turkey will remove its troops.

[Tim Drayton]

Sabri Çelebi - the man who attacked protestors with a cleaver and later absconded to Morocco for a while - has just been arrested in Istanbul.



http://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/?hn=437964&kn=7&ka=4&kb=7

It seems that he returned to Turkey yesterday and was arrested at Sabiha Gökçen airport on re-entering the country. He spent the night in police custody and was scheduled to be brought before the courts this afternoon.

The court released him pending trial.

[Tim Drayton]

[my translation of an article in Cumhuriyet newspaper]

Riot Control Vehicle Intervention on the Way to Ataturk’s Mausoleum

The police intervened against a march staged by citizens to mark Victory Day of 30 August. A brief clash erupted after a riot control vehicle sprayed water on about five thousand people. Citizens responded by stoning the riot control vehicle.


In Ankara, citizens, under the leadership of the Atatürk Thought Association assembled in Kızılay square and marched to Ataturk’s Mausoleum. Citizens carried torches on the march, during which the slogans “Everywhere is Taksim, everywhere is resistance” and “We are Mustafa Kemal’s soldiers” were shouted. However, the march, which began in Kızılay’s Gazi Mustafa Kemal Avenue, encountered an intervention by the police in Gençlik Street. The rapid intervention police wished for the street, in which thousands of people were marching, to remain open to traffic. Shortly afterwards, a riot control vehicle intervened with pressurised water against the citizens who had closed the road.

With thousands of citizens in the street suffering the effects of water containing additives, the riot vehicle met with a barrage of stones. After rapid response commanders saw to it that the riot control vehicle left the scene, the clash ended. The thousands of citizens who came to Anıtpark next to Ataturk’s Mausoleum took part in the concert that was held there. At the venue, the slogan, “This is only the beginning; the struggle continues” was shouted.

http://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/?hn=438316&kn=7&ka=4&kb=7

[Tim Drayton]

The Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), which styles itself as being the political wing of the Kurdish struggle in Turkey, has announced that it will hold mass demonstrations to mark the International Day of Peace on 1 September. They wish, through these events, both to express their disappointment at the lack of any progress on the part of the government after the PKK has met its side of the bargain and withdrawn the bulk of its combatants from the country, and also to voice their concerns over an intervention in Syria.

http://www.radikal.com.tr/turkiye/surec ... si-1148585

[Tim Drayton]

[my translation of an article in Cumhuriyet newspaper]

Ministry Inspectors: Disproportionate Force was used in Gezi

Ministry of the Interior Inspectors have completed a portion of their investigation into the response to the protests that started in Taksim Gezi Park and spread throughout Turkey.

According to a report by Tolga Şardan of Milliyet newspaper, the inspectors have reached the opinion that in Istanbul and Izmir, ‘the police used disproportionate force.’ With a preliminary investigation and disciplinary investigation having been authorised into certain instances of the use of disproportionate force in Istanbul, an investigation has been requested into the club-wielding policeman and the incident involving the burning of the AK party’s sub-province building in Izmir. Interior Minister Muammer Güler has authorised the conducting by the inspectors of a preliminary investigation into the allegations in Istanbul.

‘Disproportionate force was used’

In accordance with their brief from Güler, the civil service inspectors, having visited four cities, have completed the first stage of their work. The four inspectors assigned to Istanbul examined each and every raw record that was made as of the time the events first started and covering a period of hours. The inspectors, preparing their investigation report following their examination, itemised the instances in which the police in Istanbul ‘used disproportionate force.’ The inspectors have requested preliminary investigation authorisation from the Ministry of the Interior with reference to the policemen who used disproportionate force. In response to this written request, Güler has authorised the inspectors’ application. With Güler’s approval, the inspectors will treat the statutory statements of policemen who in the course of the preliminary investigation are determined to have used disproportionate force as being those of ‘suspects’.

In Istanbul, the inspectors, in addition to their preliminary investigation work, have also with Güler’s approval commenced a disciplinary investigation in administrative terms.

Authorisation to cover the spraying of gas at the woman in red

It has been learnt that among the events that the inspectors included in their preliminary investigation was the spraying of gas from a close range at the demonstrator dressed in red, the cause of much public outrage..

Now that the process of gathering statements has been completed, the inspectors will send the report they will compile to the Istanbul Provincial Governate for the necessary action to be taken. If the Provincial Governate authorises an investigation, judicial proceedings will be initiated against the policemen involved for the ‘disproportionate use of force.’

The club-wielders were investigated

In the events as they occurred in Izmir, the inspectors have made significant findings with regard to the use of disproportionate force. Within this context, the inspectors, working in a similar manner to those in Istanbul, investigated allegations that persons who, during the protests in the city, intervened against protestors with clubs in their hands were policemen. The inspectors have determined that certain senior commanders in the Izmir police force acted unlawfully. The inspectors, who have also identified disproportionate force in the intervention against demonstrators by club-wielding plain-clothes policemen, images of which became public, have at the same time attached fault to their commanders, who gave orders to the policemen using clubs that were not part of police equipment.

Policemen not wearing vests

It has been learnt that the inspectors in Izmir have also attached fault in their investigation to the plain-clothes police officers’ failure to wear vests identifying them as policemen.

The inspectors, who have also identified negligence on the part of top-ranking police commanders in the event in which the AKP’s sub-province building was burnt, have sent the report they compiled to the Izmir Provincial Governate with the request that an ‘investigation be authorised.’ If the Provincial Governate authorises an investigation, judicial proceedings will be initiated against the policemen mentioned in the file. The Ankara and Antalya sections of the investigation, by contrast, have yet to be completed.

http://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/?hn=438744&kn=7&ka=4&kb=7

[B25]

OK, Tim thanks for the reports, but so what? Nothing will happen to them, no action will be taken it is all just hot air.

Everyone knows the Turkish authorities exceeded their remit and murdered and beat its own citizens, perhaps Obama should strike Turkey for this instead of Assad, both as bad as each other in my view.