Mass Protests in Turkey

chrismcdude said:
There's a fantastic video of last week's highlights:

The First Week of Resistance in İstanbul - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59XPBtofVGA

Really inspiring stuff and absolutely no MSM coverage.

Also, this: Turkish protesters raise $55,000 for full-page ad in New York Times - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/03/turkey-new-york-times-ad
The voice of the Turkish opposition may be about to be heard in America's newspaper of record, thanks to enthusiastic participation in a crowd-funding campaign. Raya Jalabi of the Guardian US reports:

A crowd-funding campaign has raised over $55,000 in under 24 hours to help pay for a full-page ad in the New York Times calling for democratic action and new dialogue on Turkey.

The Indiegogo campaign – "Full Page Ad for Turkish Democracy in Action: OccupyGezi for the World" – called on contributors to raise a stated goal of $53,800, and asks people to "wake up". The campaign has 1,344 backers so far.

"We want the world to hear from Turks themselves about what's happening in Turkey," reads a campaign mission statement. "We want the world to support us as we push for true democracy in our country."

The campaign is steered by three individuals – Murat Aktihanoglu, Oltac Unsal and Duygu Atacan – who claim to represent the "Turkish People" with "no organizations, parties or affiliations".

Campaigners are asked for help in drafting a full statement to be printed in the ad. Over 150 commenters have contributed so far. The first draft of the ad begins:

The violent response to a peaceful protest to save Istanbul's Gezi Park symbolizes an autocratic government's increasing encroachment on the civil rights of the country's citizens. We hope for new dialogue—one that can restore the trust of Turkish citizens in a government that positioned Turkey as a global economic power, but which is now getting recognition around the world for condoning harsh police retaliation that strikes at the pillars of democracy.
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Woot woot Turkey! Non-violent mass scale demonstrations are the way to go!
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But government can make self-attacks and blame whoever (and they right now-these pathological- will be busy infiltrating "the ranks of the enemy"). So people should be very attentive to what can happen. Because after so long psychopathic self-attacking, maybe soon this maneuver could be exposed by the masses on the planet?
Erdogan it has no name or face, so he always has been in bed with the Zionists? Must be of the same race. And has fear that the information continue to flow.
Thanks to all who contributed in the post, good info to investigate.
 
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Hello citizens of the world, We are Anonymous

Turkish Gezi Resistance is one of the most noble social uprising in recent history. The Turkish people, the women, the children, the young and the old, long oppressed by the all powerful regime, are now well awake. Fear changed sides: the Turkish people are not afraid, the oppressors are. Turkish people are realizing their potential as free human beings, and unbeforeseen soul healing is happening.
Anonymous is heart broken with: 1- Excessive use of various flavors of pepper spray on protesters, and the pepper spray shells that are used as live bullets on protesters. 2- The psychotic manner in which Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is handling the situation.
3- The utter hypocrisy of mainstream media to downplay the events and turn people's attention away from them.
4- The relative lack of interest of the international community and human rights circles in the calamity caused by police state. This is most disappointing.
5- Overall issue of entropy always going up in the universe.
6- Windows Phone.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxA7cIv5mcY

A song about pots and pans

People are clanging pots and pans every night at 9 pm to protest the government.

The group is Kardeş Türküler (Sibling folk songs)
 
A new english word has been created from the protests: Chapulling

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapulling

Also Noam Chomsky has said that he is also a çapulcu.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rim4SPPyLU
 
A lot of people trying to cover these stories are being caught up in the police force.

http://www.channel4.com/news/taksim-square-police-riot-istanbul-turkey-erdogan

This is awful and I hope this is showing people world wide how the PTB actually think about the people that they are supposed to be serving and listening to. The part in the video showing support for this man is just sickening. I heard on BBC radio a freelance reporter getting fired on live and how there are people in the crowd that are getting violent but they appear to be part of the police themselves. Even lawyers coming out to say no to all this are being arrested.
 
aurora said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yE1MBBmKHw

a video from nasrtv.com
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Thanks for that link.
I was reading an interview with the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, which could perhaps helps us
understand why the goverment is trying to erase historical simbols.

It's completely obvious that the forces in Europe today are trying to manipulate
our identity, they are trying to cut the umbilical cord that ties us to our history.

In most cities, historical zones are changed and the result is that inhabitants feel more
and more like turists in their own enviroment.
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This ties into what Naomi Klein wrote in the Shock Doctrine, the way CIA used sense deprivation,
attacking the identity of the victims, their values and so on to produce a state of shock. But it seems that now they
are doing it on a larger scale (for who has the time to individually deal with each citizen).
 
You are most welcome, Anthony.

The human toll of the protests so far:

4 dead (includes one policeman who fell from a pedestrian bridge while running after fleeing protesters)
12 has lost eyesight permanently
16 critically wounded - mostly head trauma including cracked skull bones
The total number of wounded - around 6000

Wounded people who went to state hospitals have been forced to fill in a different form to identify them.

Lawyers defending the "twitter" senders (accused of fomenting protest) and others rounded up for custody have also been taken into custody.

The medical students who have set up a makeshift clinic at Gezi Park have been blacklisted by the ministry of health.

The imam of the mosque at Dolmabahçe (a district close to Beşiktaş where there was a massive protest) who opened the mosque for the wounded protestors and denied any wrong doing by them (like alleged drinking of beer and group sex - a smear campaign started by mainstream media) has been taken on a compulsory leave of absence.

Silence of the lambs - These words were written on a poster to protest those not taking part in the protests and sitting in cafes.
 
aurora said:
Silence of the lambs - These words were written on a poster to protest those not taking part in the protests and sitting in cafes.
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Those who sit in cafes should remember that phrase of Martin Niemöller applies to all (perhaps today more than ever). There are people who stay seated because they are afraid or different interests. Or do not have empathy...There are also many ways to resist and be activists for freedom. I think the wish of be here, to learn in this forum, is part of be able to resist the plans of ptb.
I think it's becoming clearer the differences in information there are in the people involved in marches and protests. Difference of levels of consciousness of the people, of what they see and what they are. What they understand of what they are living, in a planetary sense, is not the same. It's like there people living in different historical stages, coinciding therein. But all can unite, despite all their differences of thousand kinds, by the battering of psychopaths against normal people. The enemy perceived objectively can unite the still sleeping, I think (and hopefully we wake up soon!).
 
The "Standing Man"

The protests have changed shape and now people just stand motionless to protest the government.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jtes/standing-man-becomes-symbol-of-turkey-protests

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/18/turkey-standing-man
 
aurora said:
The "Standing Man"

The protests have changed shape and now people just stand motionless to protest the government.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jtes/standing-man-becomes-symbol-of-turkey-protests

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/18/turkey-standing-man
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Thanks for the post aurora, Turkey has been in my thoughts a lot today. I was wondering why nobody here has had much to say about it. I think the standing thing has a lot of beauty to it. This comment made from a poster from one of the sites you linked was

"What would be amazing is if these people were, right now, protesting at the jails where their friends and comrades of the movement were currently being detained, or joining n the public assemblies in Besiktas to discuss how to defend against the oncoming onslaught by Erdogan's police.I've got no beef with this standing man protest. Its great. I've got beef with the ideological and naive lense through which liberals view these types of protests.

These people wouldn't be standing there looking so photogenic if it wasn;t for the bravery of those involved in the last few weeks (4 dead thousands injured, hundreds now being jailed)"

I agree somewhat with that.

I really wonder what if anything will become of this. And Brazil? Is anybody in different countries even paying any attention that so many people everywhere are leading lives of quite desperation and now want to have a voice?
 
Horseofadifferentcolor said:
aurora said:
The "Standing Man"

The protests have changed shape and now people just stand motionless to protest the government.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jtes/standing-man-becomes-symbol-of-turkey-protests

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/18/turkey-standing-man
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Thanks for the post aurora, Turkey has been in my thoughts a lot today. I was wondering why nobody here has had much to say about it. I think the standing thing has a lot of beauty to it. This comment made from a poster from one of the sites you linked was

"What would be amazing is if these people were, right now, protesting at the jails where their friends and comrades of the movement were currently being detained, or joining n the public assemblies in Besiktas to discuss how to defend against the oncoming onslaught by Erdogan's police.I've got no beef with this standing man protest. Its great. I've got beef with the ideological and naive lense through which liberals view these types of protests.

These people wouldn't be standing there looking so photogenic if it wasn;t for the bravery of those involved in the last few weeks (4 dead thousands injured, hundreds now being jailed)"

I agree somewhat with that.

I really wonder what if anything will become of this. And Brazil? Is anybody in different countries even paying any attention that so many people everywhere are leading lives of quite desperation and now want to have a voice?
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SOTT is paying attention! :v:

I know what you mean though. I'm also a little disappointed by the general lack of interest. It's like, "Simultaneous revolutions in two of the most populated/strategically important countries in the world? Whateva, I'm going shopping!"

But then I wonder if people are noticing and are quietly taking it in?..

Take a look at this article: http://www.sott.net/article/262532-Climate-change-and-revolution-Complex-systems-theorists-warn-we-are-one-year-away-from-global-riots

Apparently there's a specific 'hunger threshold' a country has to reach before mass demonstrations break out.

I've a feeling all it's going to take is one more round of crop failures, then it's game over, the world over.
 
I found this "standing" kind of protest very interesting. In fact, looking at the pictures I feel a silence, so strong, that it gives me shivers. Maybe silence, in big masses, is stronger than yelling, I really don't know. But I like the idea, this silence and this posture. Imagine a city of standing people, a city when suddenly everyone is there, in front of the politicians, standing in a huge, immense silence.
 
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