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URGENT CALL FROM TURKISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

URGENT CALL FROM TURKISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

!!! URGENT CALL FROM TURKISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION !!! (Please SHARE! ) ===================================================== Since May 31st 2013 the peaceful and legitimate demonstrations are tried to be suppressed by the police. The police forces are...

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MAJOR POLICE TERROR IN ISTANBUL

"MAJOR POLICE TERROR IN Istanbul, worse than anything I've seen so far. No limits, they are not just attacking but chasing people until something bad happens. More arrests than ever and no one knows where they are taken to. Media is not allowed in. International...

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UPDATE From ISTANBUL (6hrs ago)

From an anonymous trusted source From an anthropologist friend tonight in Istanbul, Turkey. « Dear friends, I'm sorry to say this evening that there is no more Gezi park to report from. Riot police raided the park today, which was having a very normal,...

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Istanbul shaken by fresh violence

Istanbul shaken by fresh violence

Violence shook Istanbul overnight, as the Turkish government sent police into the park at the centre of protests, used tear gas against a hotel where protesters – including the wounded – were seeking refuge, and stationed military gendarmes at key points...

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Police Attacks Gezi Park Following Erdogan Speech

Today, following Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's extremely sectarian, separatist, and fictious speech in Ankara, around 9 PM, the Turkish police began to attack thousands of people who were at the Gezi Park and Taksim square, having dinner....

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Academics for Gezi. An International Call

Yurtdışındaki akademisyenlerden demokrasiye çağrı bildirisi / Academics call for democracy “As academics concerned with the recent developments in Turkey, we stand in solidarity with the people peacefully protesting to protect Gezi Park in Taksim, and...

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Historian Erik-Jan Zürcher on Turkish main events

"A week in the shadow of Taksim" The fact that I spent last week in Turkey -- a pure coincidence, I was not one of the "foreign agents"- allowed me to witness some of the demonstrations and riots at first hand (in Izmir and Ankara) and follow the daily...

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New Statement Condemning the Most Recent Police Violence in Istanbul, June 11 2013

This evening, June 11, 2013, GIT members, presently at Gezi Park, are witnessing the massive use of tear gas against the occupants, sitting peacefully under the trees. They are informing us that there are many wounded after this very strong police intervention...

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Human Rights Watch reporting on Turkey

Turkey: End Police Violence at Protests Government Intolerance of Free Speech, Assembly Triggers Demonstrations (Istanbul, June 1, 2013) – Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government should end police violence and excessive use of force against protests...

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GIT's Declaration, June 1st 2013

June 1st 2013 The International Work Group for Academic Liberty and Freedom of Research in Turkey (« GIT ») strongly condemns the disproportionate use of police force against demonstrators in Istanbul and other Turkish cities. GIT protests against these...

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