Turkish Spring Taksim Square

[Koldaramor]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/01/world/...d=all&_r=0

ISTANBUL — Police officers attacked a group of peaceful demonstrators on Friday in Istanbul’s Taksim Square with water cannons and tear gas, sending scores of people, protesters and tourists alike, scurrying into shops and luxury hotels and turning the center of this city into a battle zone at the height of tourist season.


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[Something completely different]

lol

That woman wearing a red dress in the background!
Considering that she is being pepersprayed into the face, she remains really calm.

Almoust looks like a hairspray add.

[Koldaramor]

lol

That woman wearing a red dress in the background!
Considering that she is being pepersprayed into the face, she remains really calm.

Almoust looks like a hairspray add.

Islamist Turkish government cannot tolerate this kind of modern women.
They are doing the mall instead of cutting down trees. changing the secular education system, bans the use of alcohol.

Islamist government remove the secular laws, instead of trying to put islamic laws.

[The Grand Nudger]

Water cannoning female protestors eh...for some reason I don't think this is going to have they effect they hope it will.....

[Minimalist]

Don't they know that the koran calls for beating them with sticks? I'm sure it says nothing about pepper spray.

[cratehorus]

it started as a small protest over a city park being demolished now springboarded into this whole protest..... considering the arab spring started over the self immolation of a fruit vendor.... who couldn't get a business license..... and had his scales and cart confiscated by police...... this is enough to overthrow the dictator erdogan..... and hopefully can spread to Saudi Arabia.......... police have given up and riots are now starting



Police Retreat as Protests Expand Through Turkey

By late afternoon, the police withdrew from Istanbul’s central Taksim Square, allowing the demonstrators to gather unimpeded in the place that set off the protests last week with government plans to turn a park into a replica Ottoman-era army barracks and mall. The departure of the police, who had been widely criticized for violent tactics on Friday, set off scenes of jubilation and destruction, as some drank and partied while others destroyed police vehicles and bulldozers.

While the protest began over plans to destroy a park, for many demonstrators it had moved beyond that to become a broad rebuke to the 10-year leadership of Mr. Erdogan and his government, which they say has adopted authoritarian tactics. Some saw the police pullback as a historic victory.

“It’s the first time in Turkey’s democratic history that an unplanned, peaceful protest movement succeeded in changing the government’s approach and policy,” said Sinan Ulgen, the chairman of the Center for Economic and Foreign Policy Studies, a research group in Istanbul. “It gave for the first time a strong sense of empowerment to ordinary citizens to demonstrate and further their belief that if they act like they did the last few days they can influence events in Turkey.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/02/world/....html?_r=0

[Koldaramor]

it started as a small protest over a city park being demolished now springboarded into this whole protest..... considering the arab spring started over the self immolation of a fruit vendor.... who couldn't get a business license..... and had his scales and cart confiscated by police...... this is enough to overthrow the dictator erdogan..... and hopefully can spread to Saudi Arabia.......... police have given up and riots are now starting
Police Retreat as Protests Expand Through Turkey

By late afternoon, the police withdrew from Istanbul’s central Taksim Square, allowing the demonstrators to gather unimpeded in the place that set off the protests last week with government plans to turn a park into a replica Ottoman-era army barracks and mall. The departure of the police, who had been widely criticized for violent tactics on Friday, set off scenes of jubilation and destruction, as some drank and partied while others destroyed police vehicles and bulldozers.

While the protest began over plans to destroy a park, for many demonstrators it had moved beyond that to become a broad rebuke to the 10-year leadership of Mr. Erdogan and his government, which they say has adopted authoritarian tactics. Some saw the police pullback as a historic victory.

“It’s the first time in Turkey’s democratic history that an unplanned, peaceful protest movement succeeded in changing the government’s approach and policy,” said Sinan Ulgen, the chairman of the Center for Economic and Foreign Policy Studies, a research group in Istanbul. “It gave for the first time a strong sense of empowerment to ordinary citizens to demonstrate and further their belief that if they act like they did the last few days they can influence events in Turkey.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/02/world/....html?_r=0

Totally peaceful act. There were those who read books. Teenagers playing the guitar.
Islamic fascist police to atacked 05 o'clock in the morning. There are people who are attacked with tear gas. Their burned tents and personal belongings.





The police atacked 5 morning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-zIstEJ3FI

[Koldaramor]

Islamic police sprayed pepper gas pets.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai84-vkD0...r_embedded

[Koldaramor]

Islamist paramilitary police to lynch people.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQygwwVACRM

[Mahafsoun NM]

Erdogan's thugs are supplied with U.S. made police gear, which is not surprising given that his party is very pro-American and Western. This information has in turn to more protesters against his lead. And the American media is very happy to not to talk about it...

I wonder if we will ever learn that sending guns to other countries to further our agendas bites us in the ass time, and time, and time, and time again...