How hard is it for civilians to buy gas masks like the police are wearing?
It seems like that would negate most of the tear gas / pepper spray problems.
Evidence of Turkish state violence in pictures
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#83It's worth looking at the timeline of the photo of the lady in the red dress. It's even more shocking when you see the policeman lurching towards her:
http://lucienballard.tumblr.com/post/52220098289/all-photogr...
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#84I'm just gonna jump out there and offer a prediction: Erdogan ain't gonna be hold power till 2014.
Most of those victims pictured didn't look like young anarchists/WTO protesters to me... they looked like average citizens. Even if you've got a large contingency of black bloc (I don't know if this is the case and it simply hasn't been pictured), no EU-applicant country can/should be able to get away with such behavior.
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#85Just to give you a glimpse of better things than saddening photos of police brutality, here is what people did at the Gezi Park in the past 2-3 days: * 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 co…
I flew down to Istanbul this weekend to support my friends. Joined in the protests on the front lines - have some photos up: http://travel.ninjito.com/dump/2013-06-01-Istanbul-Protests/...
Great high-quality photos! Two points I want to underline: (i) the protester-driven excavator in photo 23 is a story onto itself (for those who can read Turkish, the full story can be found here: http://eksisozluk.com/poma--556945?a=today) (ii) note that all the protesters in the mosque (Valide Sultan mosque, in Besiktas) have not forgotten taken off their shoes, as is the custom, even in that furor, thus disproving that the protests were anti-Islam.
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#86Imagine this clash in the Unitd States. Would the result be more violent or less?
Re: Evidence of Turkish state violence in pictures
#87Just to give you a glimpse of better things than saddening photos of police brutality, here is what people did at the Gezi Park in the past 2-3 days: * 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 co…
Solidarity!
Live stream from Occupy (they often stream from Taksim and Gezi):
http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution?utm_source=lsplay...
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#88Thanks 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.
You can never be defeated in non-violence! Solidarity from the USA!
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#89Thanks 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.
You can never be defeated in non-violence! Solidarity from the USA!
Thank you so so so much.
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#90What a violence! Why can the police and other law enforcement folk be so brutal against their own people? its beyong outrage.