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    This is a thread about a strong protest of its own kind where people of every ethnicity, religion, ages and ideals or those with none at all are flocking to Istanbul, and if they can't they gather in their hometowns.

    So please drag your personal agendas elsewhere.

    I've checked all Turkish TV channels a few minutes before and it's all your "ordinary Sunday" while the protests are getting stronger reinforced with people from other cities whereas police forces are rumoured to have called for an extra 10.000 to "manage" the incidents. Social and international media are the only windows opening to the outside world right now. We've read news of certain police forces from other cities refusing to reinforce their "colleagues" in Istanbul and those that have quit their jobs.

    The undercover cops are told to be smashing ATMs and damaging mass transportation vehicles so as to later condemn the protests and justify the rageful conduct of the police.

    If you still like Erdogan and AKP, sorry but you and I have distances as I am a Turkish citizen living in this almost-hellhole.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LeftEyeNine View Post
    This is a thread about a strong protest of its own kind where people of every ethnicity, religion, ages and ideals or those with none at all are flocking to Istanbul, and if they can't they gather in their hometowns.

    So please drag your personal agendas elsewhere.

    I've checked all Turkish TV channels a few minutes before and it's all your "ordinary Sunday" while the protests are getting stronger reinforced with people from other cities whereas police forces are rumoured to have called for an extra 10.000 to "manage" the incidents. Social and international media are the only windows opening to the outside world right now. We've read news of certain police forces from other cities refusing to reinforce their "colleagues" in Istanbul and those that have quit their jobs.

    The undercover cops are told to be smashing ATMs and damaging mass transportation vehicles so as to later condemn the protests and justify the rageful conduct of the police.

    If you still like Erdogan and AKP, sorry but you and I have distances as I am a Turkish citizen living in this almost-hellhole.
    Surely this is not all new, though. The Turkish Republic has always had a problem balancing liberty with a perceived need to enforce fraternity. Previously, that was aggressively enforced Secularism, now it appears the current government is enforcing Cronyism with an Islamic twist.

    Which is obviously worse.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LeftEyeNine View Post
    This is a thread about a strong protest of its own kind where people of every ethnicity, religion, ages and ideals or those with none at all are flocking to Istanbul, and if they can't they gather in their hometowns.

    So please drag your personal agendas elsewhere.

    I've checked all Turkish TV channels a few minutes before and it's all your "ordinary Sunday" while the protests are getting stronger reinforced with people from other cities whereas police forces are rumoured to have called for an extra 10.000 to "manage" the incidents. Social and international media are the only windows opening to the outside world right now. We've read news of certain police forces from other cities refusing to reinforce their "colleagues" in Istanbul and those that have quit their jobs.

    The undercover cops are told to be smashing ATMs and damaging mass transportation vehicles so as to later condemn the protests and justify the rageful conduct of the police.

    If you still like Erdogan and AKP, sorry but you and I have distances as I am a Turkish citizen living in this almost-hellhole.
    i think it had relevance with your say about your racist Government !! it shows how much oppressor and Dictator & killer & Racist is your government!

    and, really is that serious ?!! i mean people want reform or Government Change due to their peaceful demonstration oppressed & Suppressed ?! and will it spread to other regions, not just Istanbul?! really at last Turks have been sapientialed?! (sorry for bad english!)

    and the matter of UNDERCOVER POLICE, EXACTLY LIKE 2009 REVOLT IN IRAN after elections, they have learned from Iranian regime's anti-revolt Police, where they smashed cars & public proprietors, and later then, they said it was from a little INSURGENCY (People!!) to legalize & Justify their suppression and crimes!! LOL !! dictators have many in common!

    anyway, if any REAL peace movement is headed, it must be supported, as i do. but i doubt, Turkey is USA's strong ally, and USA will do anything at all cost not to lose it. so this is transient i think, as it was the Wall-Street Movement because of suppressions. you know, IMPERIALISM !
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    Quote Originally Posted by LeftEyeNine View Post
    This is a thread about a strong protest of its own kind where people of every ethnicity, religion, ages and ideals or those with none at all are flocking to Istanbul, and if they can't they gather in their hometowns.

    So please drag your personal agendas elsewhere.

    I've checked all Turkish TV channels a few minutes before and it's all your "ordinary Sunday" while the protests are getting stronger reinforced with people from other cities whereas police forces are rumoured to have called for an extra 10.000 to "manage" the incidents. Social and international media are the only windows opening to the outside world right now. We've read news of certain police forces from other cities refusing to reinforce their "colleagues" in Istanbul and those that have quit their jobs.

    The undercover cops are told to be smashing ATMs and damaging mass transportation vehicles so as to later condemn the protests and justify the rageful conduct of the police.

    If you still like Erdogan and AKP, sorry but you and I have distances as I am a Turkish citizen living in this almost-hellhole.
    Media brainwashing isn't fun, is it? I'm against that stuff in Turkey, where it is obviously worse, just like I'm against it here.

    Media tends to report narrative, not news. If the narrative of liberal development is threatened, media decides how to ignore news to stay on message. Narrative is the enemy of news. Broadcast news is government/power propaganda and entertainment everywhere you go. Every moment that you spend watching it you are demolishing your understanding of the world.
    Last edited by ICantSpellDawg; 06-01-2013 at 11:15.
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