Attention: Democracy is Under Attack in Turkey !

[Cambaz]

https://m.ak.fbcdn.net/sphotos-a.ak/hphotos-ak-frc3/971036_10151626996527103_768327133_n.jpg

Please support and spread this to world we need your help against tyranny !

http://occupygezipics.tumblr.com/

[Cybermat47]

They attacked people protesting about a recreational area!? That's disgusting!

[Hottentot]

They attacked people protesting about a recreational area!?

Based on one poster, a virtual flyer and link on an Internet forum.

[Cambaz]

BBC News

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22739423

[Hottentot]

For the record, I didn't mean to accuse you of lying. Just urged a little source criticism before declaring something disgusting.

[Betonov]

With us it was the speed traps, with the Turks it was parks.

Bring them down and hang them high :salute:

[Skybird]

?!?! My friend, your Kemalist attempt to have a secular democracy in your country is under constant attack and siege since Erdoghan and his AKP were voted by your people into power! ;)

[Cambaz]

that is true, but we are the ones who are not voted for them ;) this is a rebellion against radical islamist fascistic tyrant AKP and Erdogan so don't accuse me and the people struggling for protecting their freedom, rights and secular republic...

[Cybermat47]

Just urged a little source criticism before declaring something disgusting.

Good advice, thanks.

[Skybird]

that is true, but we are the ones who are not voted for them ;) this is a rebellion against radical islamist fascistic tyrant AKP and Erdogan so don't accuse me and the people struggling for protecting their freedom, rights and secular republic...
I did not mean to attack you personally. I just wanted to relativise a bit the impression that the events now are only the first sign that democracy is declining in Turkey. I warned of that deconstruction and Islamization taking place already several years ago, and since as long. I caught quite some diffamation for that. Good luck to you.

But get a plan B ready if you can.

[Jimbuna]

Quite worrying state of affairs.

[Cambaz]

this is what they are doing their citizens instead of they have to protect.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/06/01/a-stunning-90-second-video-of-turkeys-protests/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbYQ_dzFniY

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/945597_565156153507366_431666174_n.jpg

[Betonov]

Don't keep your protests local.
Ankara is where you want to focus. And keep it peacefull, often and round up and dislodge hotheads yourselves. It's likely they're goverment supporters giving the police justifiable action to disperse the protests.

And the international media is your friend. Home media may be in the goverments pocket, but the rest of the world isn't. And the reporters affraid of their jobs/lives will slowly come out and work against the censorship

[MH]

Good luck Turkey.

[Skybird]

LINK: A German view (in German) on things. (http://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article116749019/Dieses-Mal-hat-Erdogan-sein-Blatt-ueberreizt.html)

[Red October1984]

Based on one poster, a virtual flyer and link on an Internet forum.

Don't you know? Everything on the internet is completely true. Who would lie on the internet? :sunny:

[Skybird]

The beginning of th end game for Erdoghan?

LINK (http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/revolt-in-turkey-erdogan-losing-grip-on-power-a-903553.html)


Maybe, maybe not. We'll see. Question is will securalism in general gain something from him, or will the AKP just change the name at the top and remain unharmed power and continue with the creeping u-turning of society back to the pre-Kemalist era? Erdoghan may have to leave. But the AKP still is a fundamentalist party with plenty of support in the rural areas where the vast majority of Turkish people live. Yül is less confronting towards European states, but not any softer in his religious and nationalistic views as Erdoghan. He is more clever in playing the game without stirring so much resistance to him. That could make him even more dangerous for Europe than Erdoghan, because EU-idiots will hang on his lips and enjoy with delight what he will tell them - and he will friendly tell them what they want to hear. With Erdoghan'S undisguised "let'S rearrange the China shop" approach on foreign politics, it was not difficult to identify him as what he is. With Yül, that would be more difficult.

I would wish the Turks succeed in not only getting rid of Erdoghan, but the AKP and the majority supporting it as well. Without the AKP being massively driven back as well, anything the revolt now could achieve, will just be something of temporary meaning. An intermezzo.

[Onkel Neal]

Good lord, what's wrong with this guy?

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-lady-in-red-in-turkey-2013-6

[Tribesman]

Good lord, what's wrong with this guy?


He wants to be the next John Pike.

[Dan D]

Everyday I'm Çapuling ! (6 Haziran - 22: 00)
(http://www.izlesene.com/video/everyday-im-capuling-6-haziran-22-00/6968654) What Is Capuling? 'Everyday I'm Çapuling' Turkish Protest Video Goes Viral (http://www.ibtimes.com/what-capuling-everyday-im-capuling-turkish-protest-video-goes-viral-1291541)

Shorter:
"Turkey democratic actiity : Capuling means is çapulcu is poor and thief people , our prensanst said about pulclic who goes to activiy is capulcu . Yes we are capulling our rights http://www.izlesene.com/video/everyday-im-capuling-6-haziran-22-00/6968654"

prensanst = "president", though "prime minister" would be correct.
Mr. Erdogan is "prime minister", not "president", president is Mr. Gül, the protests are directed against prime minister Erdogan, responding to Erdogan's description of protesters as "looters."