Gezi Park - Istanbul

[sim667]

So its not just me, it is kicking off noticeably more?

 

[miss direct]

I think we know about it more and protests can be arranged quicker (one of the reasons the PM is considering shutting off access to twitter and facebook in Turkey) :/

 

[Greebo]

So its not just me, it is kicking off noticeably more?

Not necessarily, what about 1989 and a few years after it?

 

[sim667]

Not necessarily, what about 1989 and a few years after it?

I was only six

 

[teqniq]

Istanbul_Indy: A woman's chin broken in a violent police attack in #Avcılar #İstanbul @toplumsol_ #antireport #BerkinElvanÖlümsüzdür http://t.co/MdBb3l5dsQ

 

[Greebo]

I was only six

Way to make me feel old!

 

[Greebo]

Nasty. After all, you don't aim at the head (let alone the face) if you're merely aiming to fend somebody off or temporarily disable them.

 

[miss direct]

Well all of our students walked out at 11:30 to go and join the march for Berkin Elvan's funeral. It's HUGE.

 

[miss direct]

Got caught up in it briefly on my way home. There are a reported 50,000 people waiting in the streets and there was a line of police and four water cannons/tanks blocking the road. People were surging forwards, and I knew everything was about to kick off, so ran into the metro and came home. Since then the whole area has been water cannoned and gassed Considering the people came out to mark the death of a 15 year old killed by a tear gas cannon it's all very bittersweet and ironic

 

[miss direct]

Two people died yesterday in events relating to the funeral and resulting protests. I am back to feeling anxious and everybody is predicting that these events will continue at least until the elections at the end of the month. At least I have the option of leaving if necessary.

 

[mack]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26677134

 

[miss direct]

Twitter works fine for me. I hope people just show their reaction at the ballot boxes next week rather than on the streets.

 

[teqniq]

New report from Amnesty

Gezi trials target health workers

......Feray Kaya, a pediatric assistant who works in a government hospital, volunteered to treat the injured during the protests and helped to collect casualty data. After the protests subsided, Kaya received notices — one seen by the AP — that she was being investigated by the Ministry of Health. A letter from her hospital administration asks why she checked in on a protester brought to the emergency room after being hit in the head with a tear gas canister. A second letter from the ministry asks about her work setting up the temporary clinics.

“Did you or did you not actually serve in these voluntary infirmaries?” the letter asks.

Kaya said she and other doctors who treated patients in the streets eventually removed lab coats and medical identification because they felt the gear was painting a bull’s-eye on them for police. “We started to feel like we were prey,” she said.....

Above and in the rest of the article reminiscent of the tactics employed by the Bahraini police. Perhaps they have retained Yates, erstwhile of the Yard as a consultant. Sarcasm aside, they are the same tactics.

 

[elbows]

A Turkish policeman has been jailed for seven years and nine months after being convicted of shooting dead a protester during 2013 anti-government protests, a verdict denounced as lenient by relatives of the victim.

With several similar cases pending, the trial of Ahmet Sahbaz was seen as a crucial test of the authorities' willingness to prosecute police brutality under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

On Wednesday, the court found Sahbaz guilty of killing 26-year-old Ethem Sarisuluk in Ankara last year at the start of three weeks of clashes between police and protesters that convulsed the country.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middl...led-killing-protester-201493164014626120.html

Lots more in the full article about how badly the sentence went down with relatives and supporters of the victim.

 

[phildwyer]

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middl...led-killing-protester-201493164014626120.html

Lots more in the full article about how badly the sentence went down with relatives and supporters of the victim.

They'd never get a conviction at all in the US or UK.

 

[rekil]

This is an unusual move.

 

[butchersapron]

DHKPC =- don't trust them at all. Had a female suicide bomber handily claiming stuff in their name a few months back, couple of them with the YPG, including that young german woman who was killed fighting recently. State all over/through them.

 

[rekil]

This effectively screws up the whole case doesn't it.

 

[butchersapron]

This effectively screws up the whole case doesn't it.

You'd think so.

 

[butchersapron]

So they set a deadline - that has passed - for the guilty to confess.

This stinks.

I doubt the 'hostage takers' are coming out alive no matter which way this goes - wouldn't want any loose ends.

 

[DaveCinzano]

This effectively screws up the whole case doesn't it.

What do you mean? I can definitely see this bold move inspiring the various police officers implicated in the killing of Berkin Elvan to come forward to confess on national TV, voluntarily appear before a people's tribunal and salve their consciences.

 

[rekil]

What do you mean? I can definitely see this bold move inspiring the various police officers implicated in the killing of Berkin Elvan to come forward to confess on national TV, voluntarily appear before a people's tribunal and salve their consciences.

Well I'm a glass half full kind of guy.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Well I'm a glass half full kind of guy.

Whereas I suspect that prosecutor will soon be a skull-half-empty type chap.

 

[Pickman's model]

This is an unusual move.

it is a bold legal strategy, i'll grant you that.

 

[J Ed]

This is an unusual move.

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I'm trying to work it out from the symbolism but is it possible that that hostage taker is a communist of some sort?

 

[DaveCinzano]

I'm trying to work it out from the symbolism but is it possible that that hostage taker is a communist of some sort?

I suspect the long-awaited PRoD revival could be on the way

 

[butchersapron]

Sounds like a load of dead people to me.

 

[butchersapron]

As suggested earlier, two dead gunmen. Murky as frig.

 

[teqniq]

Wounded hostage as well

 

[teqniq]

Dead hostage now

@Reuters: BREAKING: Prosecutor injured in hostage standoff has died: Turkish foreign minister, via Twitter