Police intervened with water cannons against thousands of protesters peaceful gathered today in Istanbul’s Taksim Square, a week after the police cleared Gezi Park, the heart of nationwide demonstrations, after a muscled crackdown.
After warning the crowd to disperse from the square, riot police used water cannons to quell the demonstration.
Many protesters had started to disperse
The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation), IUF (International Union of Food workers), the TUC and UK unions joined forces with the Taksim Solidarity Committee to demonstrate outside the Turkish Embassy in London on 21st June 2013 as part of a global two days of action against the continuing repression of protestors in Taksim Square in Istanbul and other centres in Turkey.
Support Demonstration outside the Turkish Embassy London on 21st June to protest against the brutality at Taksim square and repression throughout Turkey.
The TUC, UK unions, TSCL, ITF delegation to meet with the Ambassador and handover a statement.
This Friday 21st June 2013 at 1500-17.30pm:
43 Belgrave Square
London
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Feride Aksu Tanik, of the Turkish Doctors Union, said it had called its work stoppage “to protest against the police force that attacks children, youngsters and everyone violently, and to the detentions of doctors who provide voluntary services to the injured.”
Turkey’s doctors association said Monday that four people, including a police officer, had died in violence linked to the
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Police in Turkey are refusing to acknowledge that they have people in custody following mass detentions carried out during the night in Istanbul, Amnesty International said today.
More than a hundred are believed to have been detained during Saturday night’s demonstrations in the areas of Taksim, the main focus of the protests, and the nearby districts of Harbiye and Mecidiyekoy. The
Police spray the Divan Hotel with water and chemical agents. The hotel was near a make shift hospital for injured protesters during the police raid of Gezi Park in Istanbul, Turkey on June 15, 2013.
The crimes against humanity of the Turkish Government will not go unpunished.
Turkey, the “island of stability” in the Middle East, has been engulfed by a storm. While almost all Arab countries in Asia and north Africa were inundated by the “Arab Spring”, Turkey not only seemed stable, but its regime was viewed as a model of a “moderate and democratic” Islamic state worth replicating by the Islamists in Arab countries––particularly in Egypt and Tunisia.
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STATEMENT FROM TAKSIM SOLIDARITY PLATFORM
The Taksim Solidarity Platform that represents the Gezi Park protesters has condemned the brutal police crackdown on the Taksim Square, adding that hundreds of people were injured and many had been detained. The platform also contradicted the officials’ statements that said that 44 people were injured, adding that Istanbul’s governor “had lost all
STATEMENT The Taksim Solidarity Platform that represents the Gezi Park protesters has condemned the brutal police crackdown on the Taksim Square, adding that hundreds of people were injured and many had been detained. The platform also contradicted the officials’ statements that said that 44 people were injured, adding that Istanbul’s governor “had lost all credibility.” It also said that