On 12 March, in Istanbul nearly one million people participated in the funeral organised for Berkin Elvan, 14 years old boy, who was shot at his head by police forces by gas canister on 16th January during the Gezi Revolt and passed away on 11th March after resisting for 269 days. Peaceful demonstrators marched for 4 hours […]
On 12 March, in Istanbul nearly one million people participated in the funeral organised for Berkin Elvan, 14 years old boy, who was shot at his head by police forces by gas canister on 16th January during the Gezi Revolt and passed away on 11th March after resisting for 269 days. Peaceful demonstrators marched for 4 hours from Okmeydanı, the neighbourhood of Berkin Elvan to Osmanbey, another district close to Taksim where Berkin’s body was given to earth in Feriköy Graveyard, with slogans of “Thief, murderer, Erdogan”.
While the funeral organisation was still continuing, hundreds of anti-riot police with their TOMA vehicles started to cut the main road going to Taksim Square in order to prevent the crowd that was preparing to attend Taksim Solidarity’s call for a peaceful memorial in Taksim after the funeral.
Even the ceremony in Feriköy graveyard was still continuing and just after the Istanbul Governor Mutlu sent a twitter “thanks” message to the police forces, police started a brutal attack over the demonstrators. Police used chemical water, gas canisters and plastic bullets in the attack and thousands of people were put in life risk.
Murat Karadeniz, a volunteer correspondent of Çapul TV, one of the main internet TV channels founded during the Gezi Revolt by the resisters was at the location during the police attack and documented the brutal attack.
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