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Thanks for sharing this and i'm currently in the capital city of Turkey (ankara). I'm one of those protesters. I can answer questions if someone wants to ask something. Thanks to HN community for following protests in Turkey.
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Apart from its virulent anti-Islam sentiment this is a really confused comment: these protests are totally against the Islamist authoritarianism of the government!
Interesting, tell me more about this Islamist Authoritarianism in the government and the peace ushered by it.
Thanks for sharing this and i'm currently in the capital city of Turkey (ankara). I'm one of those protesters. I can answer questions if someone wants to ask something. Thanks to HN community for following protests in Turkey.
edit: (sorry, the ability to remain anonymous is very important as lives are on the line). You might want to use a throw-away in that case as well because usernames can be tracked.
* An impromptu library was built, here are some photos: http://gezikutuphanesi.blogspot.com/ (scroll down) with books donated by people and many publishers.
* Women doing yoga at Gezi Park: http://imgur.com/3kubMll?tags: http://imgur.com/3kubMll?tags (FYI, it is not common to see people, let alone young women, doing yoga in public parks in Istanbul!)
* A number of orchestras giving a classical concert at Gezi: https://www.facebook.com/dutchrevolution/posts/5801004786774...
I am left speechless by these events, never seen anything like this in any protest in Istanbul.
And there has many, many really funny graffiti and signs, here's an example: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151695543624468...
Thanks for sharing this and i'm currently in the capital city of Turkey (ankara). I'm one of those protesters. I can answer questions if someone wants to ask something. Thanks to HN community for following protests in Turkey.
Can you provide some photographic proof that you are who you say you are, edit: (sorry, the ability to remain anonymous is very important as lives are on the line). You might want to use a throw-away in that case as well because usernames can be tracked.
wtf? Are you the identity police around here? Would you like the man to get a police visit?
This comment and the one you posted below really make no sense at all.
Violence in my neighbouring country has always been high. It is just today the social media allow that to be displayed. Before, the broadcasting was always cutting it off due to goverment censorship. This is just glimpse of the gruesome image of Turkey politians that are ruled by the army. There are far worse example in Turkey that have not seen the cover or day. This is the same in there foreign policy with all the smaller states around them feeling that(armenia, cyprus, syria)
Unfortunately i do not see this changing until the people in Turkey stand up and overthrow the current goverment but that is impossible with out foreign aid as Turkey is a country ruled by the militia.
Thanks for sharing this and i'm currently in the capital city of Turkey (ankara). I'm one of those protesters. I can answer questions if someone wants to ask something. Thanks to HN community for following protests in Turkey.
From a Greek neighbour, good luck!
Two years later (and a more developed country) since the Libyan revolution, and the quality of photos is already so much higher.
Give it five more years and we'll have gigapixel photos, live streaming POV cameras (eg glass) and who knows what else. I really think police misbehavior will be improved by it.
Thanks for sharing this and i'm currently in the capital city of Turkey (ankara). I'm one of those protesters. I can answer questions if someone wants to ask something. Thanks to HN community for following protests in Turkey.
Can you provide some photographic proof that you are who you say you are, edit: (sorry, the ability to remain anonymous is very important as lives are on the line). You might want to use a throw-away in that case as well because usernames can be tracked.
Maybe you know Turkey as a modern, democratic country but we are not. I'm currently using Tor because of fear. You can face court in Turkey because of just re-tweeting something.
edit: sorry for my english. edited for some grammer mistakes.
My question is, how long before the peaceful demonstrators turn hostile? If I were there, I would feel like the government has crossed the line into violence and that therefore the crowds have no choice but to defend themselves. Soon enough, Turkey won't look that different from Syria, if the police keep that up.
Saying that "Turkey won't look that different from Syria" is not really a sensible statement. My understanding is that other than the Kurds in the south Turkey does not really have "factions" in it population beyond the normal urban/rural divide. It is not primed for any kind of civil war. While one could argue that another Arab Spring nation could provide a parallel situation I do not think that any are very similar…