“The Greek state must end the policies of pressure and violence against the people who participate in the activities, those who have been detained must be released.”
The Socialist Platform of the Oppressed (ESP) held a press release in front of the Greek Embassy in Istanbul and protested the killing of Alexandros (Alexi) Grigoropoulos by the police and called upon the European peoples to support the activists in Greece.
An ESP member Ersin Sedefoğlu read the press release, which also found support by the members of the Istanbul branch of the Human Rights Association who were handing out the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on the Istiklal Street.
Sedefoğlu said:
“This massacre coincided with the period of the traumatic effects of the financial and global crises. The Greek government lets the police use violence to stop the dynamic social opposition that is on the side of the thousands of workers fired and tens of thousands in fear of being fired.”
Pointing out to the more than fifty people slain by the police since the law about the duty and authority of the police (PVSK) was passed in Turkey, Sedefoğlu stated that they were in solidarity with the Greek people.
While the activists were chanting various slogans, three workers were cleaning the red paint the Anarchists threw at the walls of the embassy.
Spoiled tomatoes to the Greek embassy from the high schoolers
The Revolutionary High Schoolers (Dev-Lis) threw spoiled tomatoes at the Greek Embassy in Izmir in Turkey’s Aegean region.
Marching from their Izmir building to the embassy, the Dev-Lis members had to make their press release fifty meters from the embassy because of the police barricade.
Ceren Gür, who read the press release, pointed out to the fact that a sixteen year old youth was killed by a police bullet and they were in solidarity with the Greek people. (BÇ/TB)
