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artu
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posted May 31, 2013 11:53 PM |
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Edited by artu at 23:54, 31 May 2013.
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Protests turning into a small scale uprising.
This is Taksim Square, it is like the Times Square of Istanbul, it's about 5-8 minutes to where I live by walking, today protesters who were objecting to the demolition of a park in the square and the latest law passed that restricts selling of alcohol in grocery stores after 22:00 were responded with heavy resistance by the police, they used pressured water and gas on the protesters. One thing led to another and the result is this:
Strange thing is none of the major news channels are broadcasting it, almost everyone I know are communicating through facebook and twitter at the moment, saying the police are blocking ambulances and ambushing people who are trying to run away through the back streets. There are crowds gathering in many cities supporting the protesters and not just cities in Turkey, I saw photos from Netherlands and Germany.
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artu
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posted May 31, 2013 11:58 PM |
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It's 0:55 past midnight here and looks like crowds everywhere still haven't dispersed.
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posted June 01, 2013 12:11 AM |
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Stay safe and don't do anything dangerous.
What do the protesters want, besides the things you mentioned in your first post?
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artu
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posted June 01, 2013 12:18 AM |
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Well, my comment would be, it's a reaction to the government and Erdogan's condescending attitude towards any kind of political opposition in general. You know how these things go, there's tension and at some point it explodes. I wonder if there's gonna be some real long-term effect though, the media is too quiet in all of this. There's only individuals using the internet as some kind of a private network.
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artu
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posted June 01, 2013 12:23 AM |
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del_diablo
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posted June 02, 2013 05:57 AM |
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What do the protesters want, besides the things you mentioned in your first post?
If the news reports are to be trusted, they only wanted to stage a protest and sit there and protest. Shame the police messed up badly.
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artu
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posted June 02, 2013 08:31 PM |
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Every three hours or so, still convoys honking horns pass along, housewives accompany them drumming pots with forks all over the windows.
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posted June 03, 2013 02:16 AM |
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Pics of you throwing a glass bottle at riot police or it never happened.
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artu
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posted June 03, 2013 02:31 AM |
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LOL. I wasn't one of the marchers, a few friends who got burned by the tear gas spent the night in my place since all roads were blocked and hospitals were full but that's it; I functioned as a tent. Do I feel ashamed, yes, but only a little bit.
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posted June 03, 2013 12:32 PM |
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spreading the word
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu-wDrZ-bsM&feature=youtu.be
Artu, who are you? I also live in İstanbul 
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artu
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posted June 03, 2013 12:57 PM |
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Artu, who are you?
I'm your next door neighbor, didn't you recognize me? 
Burada memleketten birini gormek guzel, selamlar.
(Translation: Nice to see someone else from the motherland here, best regards)
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xerox
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posted June 03, 2013 01:24 PM |
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the motherland?
YOUNG TURK NATIONALISM
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artu
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posted June 03, 2013 01:35 PM |
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Edited by artu at 16:52, 03 Jun 2013.
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Actually memleket doesn't translate exactly as motherland, it means country but in this context, not any country, your country. It would have been weird to translate it as "someone from the country." That means something else in English. And what if I had said motherland, why would that necessarily be nationalism? What a freakishly nitpicking thing to say.
Also the Young Turk movement is specific to early 20th Century. There are no more Young Turk nationalists, just nationalists.
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OmegaDestroyer
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posted June 03, 2013 02:52 PM |
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Operation Nemesis and World War I took care of the Young Turks.
Has the rioting waned at all, Artu? From what I've read, hundreds have been detained but protesting is still strong.
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Salamandre
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posted June 03, 2013 04:41 PM |
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Nationalism is a concept the sissified people from western and nordic countries lost the meaning and value.
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artu
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posted June 03, 2013 04:49 PM |
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Edited by artu at 16:51, 03 Jun 2013.
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Operation Nemesis and World War I took care of the Young Turks.
Has the rioting waned at all, Artu? From what I've read, hundreds have been detained but protesting is still strong.
Well, it's been three days, so it's not as raged as it was but in my facebook page there are still dozens of status updates every minute like, "Police attacked the crowd in Kizilay, Ankara", "they blocked etc etc street," "doctors are operating in XXX mall" so yeah.
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posted June 03, 2013 04:53 PM |
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Nationalism is a stupid concept for which the sissified people from western and nordic countries means a lot
Fixed.
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Salamandre
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posted June 03, 2013 05:06 PM |
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Lexxan
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posted June 03, 2013 06:07 PM |
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the motherland?
YOUNG TURK NATIONALISM
says the young swedish nationalist.
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OmegaDestroyer
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posted June 03, 2013 06:22 PM |
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Let's just keep this about the riots in Turkey, and not what it means to be a nationlist.
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