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Turkey’s protests: a student perspective. By Giulia Montefiore The Turkish protests started on 31st May to save Gezi Park from being replaced either by a shopping mall or by a new mosque. The demolition of Gezi Park is part of the Taksim Project, unanimously approved by the Municipality in September 2011, which would turn Taksim Square, the most popular site for local youths and tourists, into a totally pedestrian area.

The protest started peacefully by the now called Gezi Park Resistance, which encountered the usual police repression. As this grew, other activists from all over Istanbul and nearby cities joined the resistance. This turned into a demonstration against Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s decennial government, bringing together people from different religions, ethnicities and political ideologies. The protest spread to both Western and Eastern Turkey in 67 cities. In Hatay, close to the Syrian border, an activist was shot dead during the protests. Photographs: Volkan Varol, Kaan Germirli. Turquie : l'«homme à l'arrêt», nouveau héros de la place Taksim.

Série d'arrestations dans les milieux d'extrême gauche en Turquie. Hürriyet Daily News | PHOTO Gallery. Hürriyet Daily News | PHOTO. Hürriyet Daily News | PHOTO Gallery. 'Standing man' inspires silent demonstration in Turkey. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks to the deputies of his ruling Justice and Development Party during a meeting with Turkish parliament on Tuesday, June 18. Erdogan said he had no intention of restricting anyone's democratic rights.

"If you want to make a protest do it, do it, but do it within the framework of law," he said. Turkish performance artist Erdem Gunduz, center, is joined by others as he makes his silent protest in Taksim Square. As word of his gesture of protest spread, Gunduz became known as the "standing man. " Protests that began as a demonstration against the planned demolition of a park have grown into general anti-government dissent across the nation. People carry the coffin of Ethem Sarisuluk, who was killed during recent protests in Turkey, on Sunday, June 16, in Ankara.

A protester faces water cannons during a clash with police at an anti-government demonstration in Ankara on June 16. Riot police move in a line through the tent camp on June 15. Erdemdilbaz : Come on world! One by one,... Barisakpolat : #bubirpasifdirenis #deneyelim... Galerie de mtmsphoto. #Resistanbul Day 14 /Chaos in #TaksimSquare / Police & Protesters having major clash / Watch Live | Eric Stamps New Media | Blog. Turkey, Taksim, Geziparki, Occupygezi, Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Direngeziparkı, Geziparkı, Istiklal, Gezi, Tayyip, Taksim Square, Occupytaksim, Erdogan, Occupyturkey, Antalya, Direngeziparki, Direngezi, Wearegezi, Antakya, Adana, Gazi, Kizilay, Chapulling.

ALTINARSLAN: Turkish police against demonstrators provocateur, took the initiative. #OccupyGezi #ProvokatörlereUYMA aliates: #gezi protesters forming human shield protecting the police from molotov throwers via @jamilabayraktar #Turkey ishahram: As Erdogan speaks, police attacks with water canons and gas. #DirenGeziSeninleyiz #occupygezi #cnnireport @cnnireport Polat_Candan34: RT @BatmanWI Tear gas in Taksim Square during the clashes earlier this morning in Istanbul.

AYSETASDELEN: RT @yesimcf One police water cannon hit by Molotov cocktail burnt #occupygezi #Taksim via @mesutgengec #direngezi… wsjemre: Majority of police seem to be marching off the square as some #occupygezi protesters boo and others clap. Brcsenay: Strange men at Taksim attacking police with molotov cocktails carrying gun at waists #occupygezi #occupyturkey LongestJohn: Gun in pocket ? Gezipark: fr - 2013-06-09 22:39:03 +0200. TUR | ENG | GRE | GER | FR | ITA | ESP | ABREVIATIONS | RSS | ARCHIVE News from / Nachrichten / Νέα από / informations / Notizie (da) 9.6.2013 (Istanbul Time): [Istanbul] Les bibliothèques du Parc Gezi ont besoin de livres. Supportez-les! [Edirne] Un pupitre de liberté d'expression a été installé dans le Parc Zübeyde à Edirne. Après la manifestation Edirne se lève toujours. [Ankara] A Ankara la rue Olgunlar est sous l'attaque de la police au moyen de gaz lacrymogènes. [Kocaeli] A Kocaeli une cérémonie d'ouverture prit place à Yenikent.

[Ankara] Des milliers de personnes de İlker ve Dikmen et de l'Avenue Dikmen comme les habitants de Sokullu marchent depuis l'avenue Sokullu. [Ankara] La police annonce qu'elle va disperser les groupes qui viennent du Parc Kuğulu. [Ankara] Plus de mille personnes marchent depuis le Parc Kuğulu vers Kizilay. [Adana] A Adana une autre attaque de police a lieu à Akkapi. [Istanbul] Les gens montent un podium dans le voisinage de Gazi. This Movement of Movements. “The problem with Turkey's protests” written by Austin G Mackell: Watching the Twitter feeds light up as the #OccupyGezi protests metastasized from a local protest against the destruction of a historic park into something much grander and more ambitious, it was hard not to get excited. A part of me could not help but envy Lisa Morrow's vantage point. There's nothing like seeing ordinary people joining together and rising up against a nasty government. In Cairo, when attacked by the army and police they tore up the very streets, and turned them into weapons.

Following quickly on the heels of this euphoria, however, was a nagging sense of doubt. In both those cases, as in Turkey now, a cosmopolitan 'secular' minority with a historically enlarged role rose up in what looked like a revolutionary outpouring. Reporting from Tehran in 2009, I am very embarrassed to say, I was taken in. Similarly ugly was the repression against anti-Brotherhood protests in Cairo. Turchia, le ragioni della protesta. Technosociology | our tools, ourselves. Is there a Social-Media Fueled Protest Style? An Analysis From #jan25 to #geziparki. When I tell people I study social media, politics and social movements, I often get a version of the question: “But there were protests before Facebook?”

Sure, I say, but how did people hear about it? Word-of-mouth is, of course, one way but [in the modern era] [and especially in repressive settings] it’s almost never never fast enough to spread protest of news quickly enough–remember, a political protest is a strategic game with multiple actors including a state which often wants to shut them down. Too slow diffusion of information, and your people will get arrested faster than they can show up at all. History of modern revolutions is always mixed up with the history and the structure of the communicative infrastructure of technology That is why the speed of the initial response curve is crucial to whether a protest will survive or not. Turkey, my home country, is known for big demonstrations. Turkey has has a variety of large demonstrations over the years. That is, until yesterday. Mobilising on Twitter, Turkish protesters risk arrest. Angered by the lack of coverage of Turkey's violent crisis in the country's mainstream media, Turks are mobilising via Twitter and Facebook, prompting police to arrest users they accuse of spreading subversion.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has dismissed Twitter as a "troublemaker" that "terrorises society", ranking it along with the "extremists" he blames for the days of protests against his rule. But observers say Turks are naturally turning to online social media since even private national broadcasters and newspapers are giving proportionally little airtime and column inches to the protests. In response the authorities, long accused of repressing journalists, now appear to be targeting ordinary web users as well.

Officers arrested at least 25 people on Wednesday in the western city of Izmir, accusing them of tweeting "misinformation" -- news that was in fact reported by local television channels. "Have they already banned freedom of opinion and I have not heard about it? " Istanbul : les Indignés de Taksim. Photo -- Laurène Perrussel-Morin Chaque jour, depuis 70 ans, le Gezi Park de Taksim, sur la rive européenne d’Istanbul, accueille des personnes âgées venues respirer l’air frais, des familles qui se promènent, et des vendeurs ambulants de thé et de simits. Pourtant, depuis quelques mois, certains sont inquiets : un plan d’urbanisation prévoit le déracinement de certains des 600 arbres qui constituent le poumon de la ville. Des baraques militaires ottomanes devraient être reconstituées à cet emplacement. La construction d’un centre culturel et d’un centre commercial a également été annoncée.

Une destruction illégale Dès le lendemain matin, des habitants de la ville, habitués du parc ou amoureux de la nature montaient la garde. Le Gezi Park, poumon de la ville Dans un communiqué, la mairie d’Istanbul annonce que le déracinement de certains des arbres du parc vise à « élargir la rue le long de l’hôtel Divan dans le cadre du projet de piétonnisation de la place Taksim, achevé à 70 % ». Www.zeroviolenzadonne.it/rassegna/pdfs/07Jun2013/07Jun2013fb3809541ead24ab5c6dd6bb091cff58.pdf.

Interview #4.2: Protest in Gezi Park, Turkey | No Rhetorike. Methodological note: This past Saturday, I saw images of what was going on in Turkey and I felt concerned about it. I contacted a Turkish friend to learn about it and came up with the idea to write an interview on my blog, which is dedicated to non-edited interviews. As I don’t edit, there is always a risk that the interview will get a bit long, but in exchange we get good information from the interviewee, who doesn’t feel the pressure of the limits on space to spread the word (unlike what usually happens in the media and press).

What was supposed to be an interview has somehow become a diary and my evening occupation. The length of the first two interviews has been thought of as an interview but meanwhile, this task of reporting about what happens in Turkey will last; the future publications will be shorter, unless the situation demands the opposite. This interview follows a former publication that you can find here. G.Y: Kandil. G.Y: Erdogan. G.Y: President Abdullah Gul.