On 19th day of Turkish resistance for democracy and freedom against the JDP government, after the harsh provocations of PM Erdogan in his party meeting today in Ankara, riot police attacked on Gezi Parkı at 20:50 this evening.
On 19th day of Turkish resistance for democracy and freedom against the JDP government, after the harsh provocations of PM Erdogan in his party meeting today in Ankara, riot police attacked on Gezi Parkı at 20:50 this evening.
On 12 June midnight representatives of the Gezi resistance, Taksim Solidarity delivered 4 main demands of the movement to PM; however as the government continued to ignore the demands of the movement, Taksim Solidarity, after long and democratic grassroot discussions of the resisters decided to continue the resistance after the basic demands are accepted.
İSTANBUL
June 16, 2013
Harbiye
08:02 Clashes end
00:08 Barricades are up on the popular crowded central street Istiklal leading to Taksim Square. Fires are ablaze in the middle of the streets.
00:07 Chamber of Doctors and Physicians: “We declare to our people: We are committed to provide care for those people wounded or injured” Turkish Ministry of Health had started an investigation yesterday to punish the doctors for aiding the wounded people. The government demands a list of all doctors who gave health care services and a list of all those who were treated. The doctors, in reply, declared not a single name would be turned over to the government.
00:06 Police continues gassing the immediate proximity of the Emergency Hospital in Taksim.
05:30 Fighting between the people and Erdogan’s police continue around Acibadem bridge
05:28 Fighting wages around Okmeydani. Police is raining tear gas on everybody.
05:26 People retreat to side streets after a full scale frontal attack by the Isamist, fundamentalist police.
05:16 Police fire tear gas to inside an apartment around the Bridge of Acibadem
04:59 Clashes continue around Okmeydani. Police gas anyone who is on the street.
04:36 The masses confronted by an attack from the police try to defend themselves behind barricades around Acibadem Bridge.
04:22 Turkish army gendarmeries work hand in hand with the Islamist police and dose the people with water cannons.
04:18 Police is attacking the people at Osmanbey with tear gas.
04:17 Erdogan’s police starts a full assault on the people at the entrance of the Bosphorus Bridge. Some demonstrators have been able to cross the bridge.
00:04 Police shuts down any entrence to the neighborhood of large Kadikoy.
03:57 Masses are forced to retreat by Erdogan’s police while tens of thousands of people coming from Kartal reached the Bosphorus bridge. People are crossing the toll booths.
03:40 A petition is underway started by avaaz.org to stop the police brutality. The petition already reached 120,000 signatures trying to show the world the brutal assault the people of Turkey are under.
To sign the petition:https://secure.avaaz.org/tr/erdogan_end_the_crackdown_a/?tAXgPbb
03:27 Police attack the masses at Osmanbey
03:23 Police sets up a trap underneath the Altunizade bridge and attack the people without any warning with tear gas bombs. The residents were surprised and dispersed in the beginning of the attack but later organized and gathered together.
03:22 Police raids the Divan Hotel and are confiscating medical equipment used in treating the people beaten by police.
03:20 Under attack from the police at Uzuncayir people try convening at Kadikoy. Those who were able to cross the Bosphorus Bridge continue their march on the other side. People in Osmanbey are chanting, “Shoulder to Shoulder against Fascism!”
03:02 People are under a shower of tear gas but are not dispersing near Altunizade Bridge. Police raid the Hilton Hotel and is confiscating gas masks, medical equipment and even water bottles.
02:52 Police stops its attack near Acibadem Bridge. People are waiting in a stalemate in front of the barricades.
02:49 All people of all ages are on the streets at Osmanbey
02:44 Osmanbey neighborhood echoes the chants of the entire population, “Taksim will be the grave for fascism!”
02:42 Under heavy police assault the people make it to Taksim from Gazi.
02:40 Police continue its offence against its own people around Altunizade
02:33 Police attack at Halasgazi also, trying to divide the mass into three parts to be able to beat the people easily and to control the events. However, people resist and pull back to the side streets to gather again after a while.
02:30 While giving an interview to a TV station, police try to arrest the famous senarist Emrah Serbes. Under the police assault he started screaming, “They are arresting me!” but the police, understanding the PR issue that this arrest would create let him go.
02:33 Government cracks down on the TV stations that broadcast live from Taksim Square.
02:15 The police stationed in front of the Divan Hotel is now sent to deal with the people of Harbiye. The Army takes over the task of beating people up and the army unit that replaces the police at Divan Hotel starts their attack with the water cannons.
02:12 The residents that are marching towards the Bosphorus Bridge is under attack at Camlica district.
02:06 Masses change course and head towards Taksim. Ramada Hotel is converted to a make-shift hospital for the injured people.
01:58 Police offense around Osmanbey is continuing. Police is gassing anybody on the main or the side streets. Masses are gatherinhg and waiting around Mecidiyekoy.
01:54 When police blocked the people marching from Uzuncayir the masses penetrated through the police blockade and forced their march towards the Bosphorus Bridge.
01:50 Tens of thousands who shut down the major E5 highway have passed Bostanci junction. People from all neighborhoods are joining the crowd as the march continues.
01;40 Residents shut down Incirli Street in Bakirkoy.
01:28 Police enter the Hilton Hotel
June 15, 2015
23:57 Turkish Minister in Charge of Europen Issues Egemen Bagis declares on TV: “Anybody present in Gezi Park will be treated as a terrorist”
23:56 German High School opened its doors to protect people under the brutal assault of the Turkish Police.
23:55 Thousands on Istiklal Street, a popular central street are chanting and building barricades.
23:54 People of Gazi district advancing from TEM direction approached the Okmeydani neighborhood.
23:52 Separate march spontaneously started in Nisantasi against the fascist oppression of Erdogan started marching towards Habiye district.
23:49 People closing down the highway at Sarigazi continue their rally.
23:46 Between Uzuntepe and Fikirtepe neighborhoods police attack the gathered residents who demand freedoms. Residents are resisting and fighting back
23:42 In the district of Akaretler, people hung a banner which reads, “The martyrs of Gezi Park will live forever”
23:40 Marchers from Kadikoy are targeting to get to Taksim square currently under police siege head towards Uzuncayir.
23:38 The French high school Dame de Sion is converted to a field hospital to treat the wounded and injured from the Turkish police.
23:33 Hundreds close down the ramp to the freeway in Gazi District
23:29 Police assault the plush Divan hotel and are gassing the residents indiscriminately. The hotel is full of children due to weekend activities. Many children injured by the cops.
23:20 Police now attacking the Emergency Response workers who are oresent to aid the people under attack from Turkish police.
23:19 Hilton Hotel also opens its doors as a sanctuary for the people of Istanbul being brutally beaten by Erdogan’s Islamist fundamentalist police.
23:17 Thousands of people, protesting the latest assault of Erdogan’s government close the highway in Istanbul’s Kadikoy, Sogutlucesme.
23:15 Tens of thousands take it to the streets and join forces and start to march towards the Taksim square on the biggest highway in Trukey, the E5, closing it to traffic.
23:13 Police start its attacks in the neighborhood of Elmadag. It is chasing the local residents protesting fascism in the narrow side streets. On the main streets the police is using the assault vehicles known as “Scorpions” to chase and disperse the angry people.
23:10 Galip Gungor, an officer of Sine-Sen, the union of film workers union is shot by Erdogan’s cops.
23:09 Police is showering the people forced out of open Taksim square in front of Divan Hotel with tear gas given by the USA to Turkish police.
23:07 Tens of thousands gather in the Kartal district of Istanbul to close the E5 Highway. The crowd is chanting” Erdogan Resign!”
23:05 Thousands gather and start a rally in the Ikitelli district.
23:02 Police force their way into Divan Hotel which previously prevented the police from entering its premises and opened its doors to the people to protect them from brutal Turkish police assault. People are trying to protect the make-shift Clinic where doctors and medical school students are trying to give relief to people injured by the police attack.
23:00 People marching from the Okmeydani district join the marchers from Mecidiyekoy district. Police immediately started their attacks with gas bombs and water cannons. Anybody seen on the street is being arrested.
22:56 Police has ratched up its attack from the Odakule direction against the people in Istiklal.
22:55 The marchers in Kartal advance on E5 highway towards Kartal
ANKARA
June 16, 2013
Kennedy Caddesi
01:10 People from windows and balconies are banging pots and pans to support the demonstrating people against the government’s fascism. Drivers are honking on the streets against the government.
01:06 People demonstrating on Kennedy Street are waiting in suspense to see if the police thugs will attack their legitimate demonstration against their government’s oppression. The crowd is chanting against USA supported Erdogan and his fascist attacks to his own people all over the country.
01:02 A huge crowd marching miles from Mamak to reach their counterparts in central Ankara was attacked by the police near Kurtulus neighborhood. After more than 45 minutes of fierce clashes, people retreated and are marching back to Mamak.
00:41 Police is warning the residents around Kennedy Street to disperse, threatening to attack them in full force.
00:39 20 thousand strong residents are sitting and have closed the street to demonstrate the brutal attack of the police. Police has called their water cannons and scorpion assault vehicles to intimidate the people.
00:30 In Dikmen neighborhood people are keeping police at bay behind their barricades shouting, “Taksim is Everywhere, Resistance is everywhere”
00:27 The entire Kennedy Street between Tunali Hilmi Street and Ataturk Boulevard is packed with people opposing the fascism of Erdogan. Mor ethan 15,000 people filling this small area alone are challenging Erdogan who many consider is now illegitimate in the face of his unnecessary and brutal attack of peaceful people of his own country.
00:05 The government is jamming all cell phone communications in the neighborhood to prevent the residents organizing and talking to each other as they show their anger against the US supported, pro-US, pro-EU, Islamic dictator of Turkey.
June 15, 2013
23:58 Residents in the up-and-coming plush neighborhood of Batikent take it to the streets and close down the major highway between Ankara and Istanbul. After rallying against dictatorship and fascism of the Turkish government, the residents are marching back to their centers.
23:57 More than 10,000 people gathered at Keneddy street. The parliamentariens from the opposition Republican Peoples’ Party (CHP- RPP) are using their parliamentarian immunity to stop the cops from attacking the people of Ankara by sitting in front of and using their bodies as shields from the assault scorpion vehicles and water cannon trucks used to intimidate the people by the pro-US and Islamic fundamentalist police.
23:53 Police attack the people walking from Mamak to Kizilay, clashes are spreading.
23:51 Residents of Saimekadin neighborhood gathered and marched around their neighborhood. They are calling for a broad participation for the funeral of a martyr murdered in cold blood by the Turkish cops.
TURKEY
00:48 In Edirne, the North Western city, people gathering in Zubeyde Hanim Park joined forces with another marching crowd from Baca and advanced to Saraclar Street
00:47 In Canakkale, people are joining arms to prevent an attack by the fascist police with water cannons and rubber bullets.
00:33 In Antalya 3 thousand people are watching minute by minute developments in other cities and Istanbul via a television system setup by the progressive Peoples’ Houses organization. Peoples’ Houses an organization in the forefronts to defend the people against brutal police violence called to wait till the morning and to gather again at 17:00 next day to decide on the next steps in this uprising against fascism.
00:30 Adana’s Ataturk Street the main, central location is closed with barricades. Fires are ablaze to protect the people from the Government’s assault. Eyewitnesses say 8 people are wounded by the cops in Adana’s resistance.
00:23 People of Canakkale are staging a sit-in at the junction of Kordon. The entire 4 streets that lead to the junction are closed by the demonstrating people.
00:18 Canakkale residents closed the streets and started the march. The crowd is chanting, “Everyplace is Taksim, Resistance Everywhere!” Other popular chant is, “This is only the beginning! Fight will continue!”
00:16 Eskisehir is witnessing a march that has already continued for more than two and a half hours. Traffic at downtown is completely shut down. People are joining the marchers even at this time of the night.
00:03 People of Izmir, outraged by the brutal Islamist assault of the police against unarmed and peaceful people of Turkey, staged a demonstration in front of the offices of the ruling Justice and Development Party (JDP) of the prime minister Erdogan. At the end of the rally, those leaving the demonstration are marching through Basmane square and towards Gundogdu Square.
00:02 Outraged people of Eskisehir against the government’s oppression are marching towards the neighborhood of Visnelik.
23:59 People in Bursa agreed to stay in the Heykel Square till the morning. They are getting information on the peoples’ movements around the country every minute.
23:52 Eyewitnesses count the wounded people by the police as 7. Two of these are critical. Police have opened fire with plastic bullets which are real bullets only coated with a plastic cover.
23:47 Adana: Barricades now close the Ataturk Street.
On 19th day of Turkish resistance for democracy and freedom against the JDP government, after the harsh provocations of PM Erdogan in his party meeting today in Ankara, riot police attacked on Gezi Parkı at 20:50 this evening.
On 12 June midnight representatives of the Gezi resistance, Taksim Solidarity delivered 4 main demands of the movement to PM; however as the government continued to ignore the demands of the movement, Taksim Solidarity, after long and democratic grassroot discussions of the resisters decided to continue the resistance after the basic demands are accepted.
