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[Tim Drayton]

The following video is, in my opinion, an important piece of evidence in that it shows the events that lead to the huge eruption of violent protests that swept Turkey on the evening and night of Tuesday 10 September, and continued for several nights in the Kadıköy district of Istanbul. There is a lot of Turkish spoken and no subtitles, I am afraid, but the basic course of events can easily be followed. A small group of people wish, in a dignified ceremony, to lay down red carnations in Taksim Square to commemorate the death of protestor Ahmet Atakan the previous day, and a spokesperson from Taksim Solidarity wishes to read a press statement.They are met by a huge phalanx of riot police. Taksim Solidarity spokesperson, Mücella Yapıcı, makes a statement ın which she says that she refuses to read the press statement because she has been denied access to the square. Later, one of the members of parliament present announces that the police will only permit the MPs to enter the square, and that they refuse to do so if the others are denied access, and she announces that they will hold a one hour sit-down protest on the spot.

In my opinion, the heavy-handed police treatment of this initially peaceful attempt to hold a short, simple ceremony in memory of a young man who had lost his life lead to the events of that evening.

http://www.capul.tv/taksim-dayanismasin ... c4698.html

[Tim Drayton]

Minister for the Environment and Urbanisation, Erdoğan Bayraktar, has announced a new plan for the road which it was planned to build on land owned by the Middle Eastern Technical University, a project which sparked off fierce protests in both Ankara and nationally, such that it will now pass through a tunnel, and has also given the assurance that any trees which have to be removed will be replanted elsewhere.

After Gezi, another victory for direct action, it would seem.

http://www.radikal.com.tr/turkiye/bakan ... ak-1151402

Middle Eastern Technical University students say that this plan does not meet their objections; they are opposed to the road itself. They will be staging a protest this evening against the project.

[bill cobbett]

Minister for the Environment and Urbanisation, Erdoğan Bayraktar, has announced a new plan for the road which it was planned to build on land owned by the Middle Eastern Technical University, a project which sparked off fierce protests in both Ankara and nationally, such that it will now pass through a tunnel, and has also given the assurance that any trees which have to be removed will be replanted elsewhere.

After Gezi, another victory for direct action, it would seem.

http://www.radikal.com.tr/turkiye/bakan ... ak-1151402

Middle Eastern Technical University students say that this plan does not meet their objections; they are opposed to the road itself. They will be staging a protest this evening against the project.

... and, ever the Piss-Maker Erdogan tells the environmental activists ...

" ...Go and live in the forest ..." ...!!!

From CY PIO...

... "According to Turkish daily Hurriyet Daily News (online, 18.09.13), Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has strongly criticized environmental activists opposing the construction of a road through Ankara's Middle East Technical University (ODTU) forested campus, advising them to go and live in forests if they did not want roads to be built. "...

[Tim Drayton]

A group of demonstrators protesting at the sale of the Beşiktaş ferry terminal to a hotel wished to assemble in front of the terminal and drink tea there. They met with a phalanx of riot police who attempted to disperse them. After nine arrests were made, the activists staged a sit-down protest.

http://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/?hn=442618&kn=7&ka=4&kb=7

[Tim Drayton]

The first hearing of the trial into the death of Ethem Sarsısülük, who was killed by a police bullet while participating in a demonstration in Ankara in support of the Gezi Park protests on 1 June, took place at Ankara Serious Crime Court No 6.

Police officer Ahmet Şahbaz stands accused of “killing by exceeding the bounds in legitimate self-defence”.

The Sarsısülük family’s lawyers objected to the presence of plain-clothes policemen in the courtroom and, following a dispute, the head of the bench ordered that the courtroom be emptied.

Following this, tension was experienced between the Sarsısülük family’s lawyers and the defendant police officer’s lawyers. At one point, a scuffle broke out among the lawyers and spectators began to join in.

Following these disturbances, the head of the bench ruled that the trial be held in camera for reasons of “public safety”.

However, chaos re-erupted in the courtroom, with spectators protesting at this decision, and certain intervening parties in the proceedings moved in the direction of the defendant police officer in the dock. In the course of the scuffle, a wig which the police officer was wearing in an endeavour to conceal his identity fell from his head.

Due to the disturbances, the head of the bench postponed the hearing until 28 October.

http://www.radikal.com.tr/turkiye/ethem ... di-1152104

[Tim Drayton]

Footage of police officer Ahmet Şahbaz, accused of killing protestor Ethem Sarısülük, being escorted from the courtroom, in the midst of the disturbances that erupted:

http://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/?im=galeri ... &fn=200570

[B25]

Footage of police officer Ahmet Şahbaz, accused of killing protestor Ethem Sarısülük, being escorted from the courtroom, in the midst of the disturbances that erupted:

http://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/?im=galeri ... &fn=200570

Personally, I think it should be Erdogan in that doc, not the copper. he was ordered to do what he did as were all the others. Pussies hiding behind the coppers on the street.

[Tim Drayton]

A study by the Turkish Medical Association has shown that 39% of those who were affected by tear gas during the Gezi protests have continued to suffer its effects. According to the study into more than 11,000 tear gas victims, 14% complain of continued pimples and similar eruptions, 10% of impaired balance while walking and moving and 11.2% of weak muscles in the hands and feet.

http://www.radikal.com.tr/turkiye/ttbni ... ru-1152182

[Tim Drayton]

Footage of police officer Ahmet Şahbaz, accused of killing protestor Ethem Sarısülük, being escorted from the courtroom, in the midst of the disturbances that erupted:

http://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/?im=galeri ... &fn=200570

Personally, I think it should be Erdogan in that doc, not the copper. he was ordered to do what he did as were all the others. Pussies hiding behind the coppers on the street.

Agreed ...

If, for example, you look at footage from a number of cities of heavily built leather-jacketed men wielding non-police issue clubs chasing isolated protestors into side streets and beating them into a pulp - and at least some of these people have been identified as plain-clothes policeman - the sheer similarity between these incidents makes it hard to believe that they were organised spontaneously on the ground.

Hopefully,

1- If more policeman start to be prosecuted for such acts, some of them may start to speak out and say who ordered them to do this, and

2- Police may become aggrieved that ordinary officers are being punished for following such clandestine orders and when policeman are instructed to engage in similar extrajudicial acts against protestors in the future, they may think twice about it.

[Tim Drayton]

The police intervened using water cannons against about 300 protestors in the city of Adana, who were supporting the Middle East Technical University protests. Six protestors were hospitalised, their skin having turned red and with them complaining of a burning sensation; some of them were said to have experienced itching to the extent that they appeared to be suffering an epilepsy attack. Republican Peoples’ Party member of parliament for Adana, Ümit Özgümüş, visited these injured protestors in two hospitals, and rejecting the police claim that this burning was due to the high pressure of the water, noted, “Our friends here have been burnt as though boiling water had been poured over them from top to bottom.” He alleges that chemicals were added to the water, and says that some of the protestors’ clothing has been taken for analysis.



http://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/?hn=440158&kn=7&ka=4&kb=7

The above analysis was conducted by medical experts, with the result being that the chemical used on these protestors was:
dihydrocapsaicin.

http://birgun.net/haber/iste-kimyasalin ... -4585.html