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Did a mobile network company Turkcell receive political pressure to block...
By xzsharp Turkcell a private and biggest mobile network in Turkey states that they received orders and political pressure from the ruling party AKP and government to block the communications in...
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PM Erdogan’s shocking remarks and Turkish police brutality against OccupyGezi...
What PM Erdoğan said: With Turkish media otherwise giving scant reports about the protests, many turned to social media outlets for information on the unrest. ”There is now a menace which is called...
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#OccupyGezi protests in Turkey and social media
What did PM Erdoğan say during his first-ever live interview after the occupy gezi protests? The map of Turkish provinces where anti-AKP and Erdoğan protests has been taking place. The New York...
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Open letter to the international community: Current Protests in Turkey
OPEN LETTER TO THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY The Straw That Broke the Camel’s Back: Current Protests in Turkey On-going protests in Turkey represent a popular outburst against gradual encroachment of...
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Erdogan Shows Why Turkey Shouldn’t Give Him More Power
Protests against plans to replace an Istanbul park with a shopping mall have spread across Turkey, metastasizing into something far more politically significant. While the demonstrations aren’t the...
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International Occupy Gezi Protests – Invitation to call on the EU – June 4,...
International supporting Occupy Gezi protests in world cites: In Bulgaria, dozens of Turkish students protested in the capital Sofia on 1 June 2013.[169] They were joined by Bulgarian students.[170]...
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Turkish Media Slammed For Ignoring Massive Protests
WATCH THE VIDEO AP | By By ELENA BECATOROS and EZGI AKINPosted: 06/04/2013 ISTANBUL (AP) — Dense clouds of acrid, choking tear gas may have been blanketing the central square of Turkey’s largest city,...
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US Vice-President Biden urges Turkey to respect rights of protesters
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden speaks after a meeting with Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia May 31, 2013. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino By Steve Holland WASHINGTON – Vice...
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Turkey Is Now Arresting Dozens for Using Twitter
Apparently 29 people were arrested in #Turkey for tweeting this photo of Turkish police assaulting two girls pic.twitter.com/kUUjr9zvxG That’d be troubling if true. But that hasn’t been verified....
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The New York Times:Turkey’s Authoritarian Turn
By SEYLA BENHABIB Published: June 3, 2013 The huge demonstrations that engulfed Istanbul over the weekend were initially prompted by a small grievance: the government’s decision to build a shopping...
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Press Release Concerning Twitter Detentions in Turkey
PRESS RELEASE CONCERNING TWITTER DETENTIONS LONDON, UK: 05 June 2013 Yaman Akdeniz & Kerem Altıparmak On 04 June and 05 June 2013, it has been reported that at least 24 people have been taken into...
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Defiant Erdogan’s incendiary speech and all about #OccupyGezi
Latest comments from the US and the EU before PM Erdogan’s incendiary speech: EU Commissioner Stefan Füle visited Gezi Park in İstanbul and tweeted this meesage before PM Erdogan’s incendiary speech...
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OccupyGezi-University student’s experience: Sex as a police punishment
Sex as a police punishment What you will read below is extremely disturbing. It is the firsthand impressions of a Boğaziçi (Bosphorus) University student who was detained by police in connection with...
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Update: Turkish riot police entered the Gezi Park in Taksim, Many injured by...
Governor Avni Mutlu said that police will not intervene inside Gezi Park. “We will not intervene Gezi Park." Two media representatives and many civilians have been hospitalized due to head injuries...
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To the Government and Public of the Turkish Republic – Taksim Solidarity
To the Government and Public of the Turkish Republic Due the police violence pursued by the government in the face of social sensitivity after the actual attempt to destroy Gezi Park at about 22:00,...
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Latest from Erdogan’s violence against Turkish youth
The government of Turkey, in collaboration with the police and the media, staged a theater play -with terrible actors- at Taksim square of Istanbul early this morning. Aiming to dissipate the peaceful...
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Al-Monitor: Time to Bid Farewell To Turkey’s ‘Muslim Democracy’
Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan waves to his supporters next to his wife Emine Erdogan in Ankara, June 9, 2013. (photo by REUTERS/Umit BEKTAS) By: Kadri Gursel for Al-Monitor Turkey Pulse...
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The Guardian: I can never trust the Turkish police and government again
A Turkish riot policeman holds a tear gas grenade launcher in Taksim Square. Photograph: Tolga Bozoglu/EPA Can Oz I am scared. With every speech that prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan gives, I feel...
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The Guardian: Erdoğan’s reaction to Turkey protests reveals ominous Putin...
Luke Harding guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 11 June 2013 17.28 BST A protester is hit by a water cannon during clashes with riot police in Istanblu’s Taksim Square. Photograph: Gurcan Ozturk/AFP/Getty Images...
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Latest White House Statement, 12 June 2013
“We continue to follow events in Turkey with concern, and our interest remains supporting freedom of expression and assembly, including the right to peaceful protest. We are concerned by any attempts...
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