Comme en Mai 68 en France, ce mouvement génère des images, des icones. .es sérigraphies de jadis ont été remplacées par les photos prises par les téléphones portables et diffusées sur les réseaux sociaux. La Place Taksim avec ses arbre arrachés a inspiré des artistes pour illuster la protestation.
Ce cliché du photographe Osman Orsal, de l'agence Reuters, montrant une femme vêtue de rouge se faisant asperger de gaz lacrymogène, est devenu un des symboles de la mobilisation : « Dans sa robe estivale, parée d'un collier blanc, d'un sac rouge en bandoulière sur son épaule, elle aurait pu fouler la pelouse d'une garden-party, mais elle fait face à un policier masqué qui l'aspergeant de gaz lacrymogène, ébouriffe ses longs cheveux dans les airs ».
Ceyda Sungur, "The Lady in the Red Dress", has become the colour-coded emblem of Turkey's new people-power movement.
2014-1-Infographie.jpg (Image JPEG, 2500 × 1569 pixels) - Redimensionnée (62%) #Taksim Square, Thursday night. Latest @Reuters photos: : nycjim. Galerie de ccomb. Carnets de bords de Turquie. Quatre étudiants en Turquie, deux Turques, une Française. Deux sont à Istanbul, un autre est à Izmir. Ils nous ont fait parvenir des messages, des témoignages. Capture d’écran YouTube Simge Aydin est étudiante en sciences politiques à l’université Galatasaray d’Istanbul. Lors des premières manifestations organisées le 31 mai, c’est à Taksim, soit l’épicentre des évènements, qu’elle se trouvait : Il y avait vraiment une atmosphère de festival, de fête : beaucoup de gens étaient venus avec leur pique-nique et leurs instruments de musique.
Il y avait des tentes pour qu’ils puissent rester nuit et jour. Le soir, Simge rentre chez elle. Après Taksim, le reste de la ville s’embrase. J’étais dans la rue. Dans le témoignage de Simge on ressent une certaine lassitude à l’égard des agissements des forces de l’ordre : La police n’écoute vraiment personne : c’est une bataille pour se faire entendre. Ils [les forces de l'ordre, ndlr] ont jeté plusieurs capsules de gaz dans les hôpitaux. Il conclut : IMG_3758. Reuters gallery. Les visages du printemps turc. L'évacuation de la place Taksim à Istanbul - Slideshow. Tim Pool Live Streaming from Istanbul. Journalist Tim Pool is streaming live from Istanbul, where antigovernment protests have been ongoing since Friday, May 31. What began as a campaign against the city's plans to construct a mall in a public park has escalated into a massive display of anger over the ruling party's neo-Islamist social agenda and religiously driven laws.
Riot police have moved in with brutal force, using tear gas on tens of thousands of protestors. It is the largest civil uprising in the history of Turkey. Update, June 15: Police raided Gezi Park and reclaimed it using water canons, riot gear, tear gas, and rubber bullets. The police have reportedly gone after fleeing protesters in nearby streets and hotels, and municipal workers are cleaning up the park and square. Update, June 14: A tentative agreement has been struck between the government and protesters in Turkey. For more on the situation in Istanbul: Watch our new documentary, Istanbul Rising Occupiers Faced Down Cops in Istanbul's Taksim Square. Lady in Red. The photo that encapsulates Turkey’s protests and the severe police crackdown.
By Max Fisher June 3, 2013 Protesters and police in Istanbul's Taksim Gezi Park last week. (REUTERS/Osman Orsal) Turkey's protest movement has ebbed and flowed dramatically over the past week, as has the government's sometimes heavy-handed response, but this photo from last Tuesday, the second day of large-scale demonstration, remains an iconic and affecting symbol of the ongoing movement. The photo was snapped by Reuters photographer Osman Orsal in Istanbul's Taksim Gezi Park, where the movement began with a peaceful sit-in protesting the government's plan to turn the green space into a shopping mall.
Police moved in to clear the square, deploying barricades, tear gas and pepper spray. But the protesters held their ground and have dug in over the last week, staying in the square despite an escalating police effort to dislodge them. Orsal's photo captures so much of the Taksim Gezi movement. The Stunning Image Of 'The Lady In Red' Will Endure Even After The Turkey Protests End. REUTERS/Osman Orsal Turmoil in Turkey has entered its fifth straight day as protests over the destruction of trees in a public park morphed into an indictment of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government. And the "lady in red" — a woman who was sprayed directly in the face with teargas by a policeman on May 28 in Gezi Park of Taksim Square — has become the symbol of the dissidents.
The description of the photo by Reuters nails it (emphasis ours): In her red cotton summer dress, necklace and white bag slung over her shoulder she might have been floating across the lawn at a garden party; but before her crouches a masked policeman firing teargas spray that sends her long hair billowing upwards. Endlessly shared on social media and replicated as a cartoon on posters and stickers, the image of the woman in red has become the leitmotif for female protesters during days of violent anti-government demonstrations in Istanbul. Here's the sequence: And here's a closeup of her getting doused: Rtx10b3w.jpg (Image JPEG, 940x610 pixels) RED_2585066c.jpg (Image JPEG, 460x287 pixels) La femme en rouge. Rechercher: taksim occupyGezi. Taksim Parkı Square. No picnic for Turkey's lady in red - World.
Reluctant heroine seems to encapsulate the Government's heavy-handed response to a civilised protest. With her red cotton dress, white shoulder bag and flowing black hair, she has become the colour-coded emblem of Turkey's new people-power movement. Caught on camera as she was sprayed head to toe in tear gas, Ceyda Sungur's treatment at the hands of Istanbul's riot police seemed the epitome of using a "sledgehammer to crack a nut" and encapsulated the Government's heavy-handed response to a civilised protest.
Pictures of the "Lady in the Red Dress" quickly spread around the world via the internet. Those who shared the pictures online joined protesters in demanding to know why a woman who looked dressed for a summer picnic had been treated like a masked, brick-throwing anarchist. "For me this is about freedom of speech and the power of the people," said Sungur, who was left choking for breath after the gas attack. The photos of Sungur set off a major escalation of the protests. BLvLpZzCcAAts-p.jpg (Image JPEG, 599x587 pixels) BLw3byDCEAAk267.jpg (Image JPEG, 598x394 pixels) BLt_HMSCAAA1jr6.jpg (Image JPEG, 599x598 pixels) Resistanbul-main.jpg (Image JPEG, 500x415 pixels) BLl1H7KCAAAdrIM.jpg:large (Image JPEG, 716x960 pixels)
BLl11tCCAAASrzL.jpg:large (Image JPEG, 1024x1451 pixels) - Redimensionnée (68. BLl3otECUAAjyLu.jpg:large (Image JPEG, 1024x1218 pixels) - Redimensionnée (81. 942438_577430745622870_549663278_n.jpg (Image JPEG, 960x653 pixels) Anarchic Tendencies: Photo. Taksim. #Taksim Square, Thursday night. Latest @Reuters photos: : nycjim. Guillaume Perrier (Aufildubosphore) sur Twitter.