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Fire Walk With Me

(38,893 posts)
Sun Jun 2, 2013, 07:09 PM Jun 2013

Around 5,000 protesters attempt to advance to Prime Minister Erdoğan's office

AJELive ‏@AJELive

Around 5,000 protesters attempt to advance to Prime Minister #Erdoğan's office
http://aje.me/19AouEN #Turkey



OccupySantaFe ‏@OccupySantaFe

#direnizmir Another view from Izmir, thousands of people are demonstrating against the repressive acts of the... http://fb.me/BqU4jeVZ


Adam ‏@AdamInOakland

#CNN Turkish citizens want PM to resign http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/02/world/europe/turkey-protests/index.html?hpt=wo_c2


¤ProletarianDissent¤ ‏@Anon4justice

Why aren't you watching the #livestream of #Turkey?? http://rt.com/on-air/turkey-protest-istanbul-park/ … | #OccupyGezi #GeziStrong #OccupyTurkey #Anonymous #Occupy #OGEZ



Global Revolution ‏@GlobalRevLive

RT @YourAnonNews: Calls for general strike in Turkey under hashtag #genelgrevedavet
via @nateschenkkan #occupygezi #TurkishSpring


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Around 5,000 protesters attempt to advance to Prime Minister Erdoğan's office (Original Post) Fire Walk With Me Jun 2013 OP
k/r. A few more links. A couple pics. limpyhobbler Jun 2013 #1
Awesome. Thank you for these pics and links, and in the other thread! n/t Fire Walk With Me Jun 2013 #3
Oh, also check out MSNBC's awesome coverage of this. Truly stunning. limpyhobbler Jun 2013 #2
They never learn, just like here. If they had allowed the protesters to simply protest and had sabrina 1 Jun 2013 #4
The crackdowns warrprayer Jun 2013 #5
22-year-old protester dead Fire Walk With Me Jun 2013 #6

limpyhobbler

(8,244 posts)
1. k/r. A few more links. A couple pics.
Sun Jun 2, 2013, 09:46 PM
Jun 2013

You might have seen these if your following this on twitter

Here are a couple articles with some analysis and background about what's happening. These are kind of opinion/analysis pieces.

The Right to the City Movement and the Turkish Summer
http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/11978/the-right-to-the-city-movement-and-the-turkish-sum


This IS about a park
http://memesonmemes.blogspot.com/2013/06/this-is-about-park.html

Apparently these people found a bulldozer or excavator


And maybe chased the police a bit with it



There's some stuff over here too->
http://www.whatishappeninginistanbul.com/?page_id=77



Everybody probably knows these news sites:
RT & AJ both seem to have quite a bit of coverage
http://rt.com/news/taksim-protest-erdogan-marauders-133/

http://blogs.aljazeera.com/liveblog/topic/turkey-protests-20176

sabrina 1

(62,325 posts)
4. They never learn, just like here. If they had allowed the protesters to simply protest and had
Mon Jun 3, 2013, 10:42 AM
Jun 2013

not so brutally cracked down on them, this would probably be over by now. It was the same tactics by the NYPD with OWS that escalated the protests and got it world wide attention.

 

Fire Walk With Me

(38,893 posts)
6. 22-year-old protester dead
Mon Jun 3, 2013, 05:51 PM
Jun 2013

RT ‏@RT_com 3m

Union of Turkish Doctors confirms the death of 22-year-old Abduallah Cömert in Antakya, Hatay,says BBC
Turkçe #OccupyGezi #Turkey

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