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Dispatches: One Year After Turkey’s Gezi Protests, Activists on Trial

Dispatches: One Year After Turkey’s Gezi Protests, Activists on Trial

If the prosecutors trying the case today care about Turkey’s obligation to uphold the rights to nonviolent assembly, association, and free speech, they should drop all charges against the Taksim Solidarity activists.

13 June 2014 Emma Sinclair-Webb

The History of Gezi Resistance is Now Available On-Line

The History of Gezi Resistance is Now Available On-Line

A year later, Metis has made an English edition of Tarih available, giving an opportunity for readers outside Turkey to reach this document of both the Gezi Resistance and the relationship between the government and the media in Turkey.

That TOMA Breaks its Silence!

That TOMA Breaks its Silence!

A year has passed since the interview with the trees of Gezi Resistance. This time we held out the microphone to the TOMA (police tank) on the other side of the resistance: I underwent all those things, and the Prime Minister never once called me up.

9 June 2014 Diren Dayanan

First Year of Gezi Resistance

First Year of Gezi Resistance

bianet compiled all its news, photo and video content from May 27, 2013 regarding the Gezi Resistance around a timeline. Even though the chronology ends in March 2014, we know that this is just the beginning...

Gezi Resistance Deaths Commemorated

Gezi Resistance Deaths Commemorated

The family of Abdullah Cömert, a young protestor who lost his life during Gezi Resistance, visited Gezi Park today. While Ali İsmail Korkmaz, Mehmet Ayvalıtaş and Ethem Sarısülük were also commemorated on their death anniversary, other activists celebrated Medeni Yıldırım’s birthday.

Police Violence Against Journalists Documented

Police Violence Against Journalists Documented

Police attacked a group of journalists on the job in Taksim during the Gezi Resistance Anniversary Protests on May 31. The incident has been recorded and streamed by KameraSokak, a voluntary group dedicated to record protest and police violence.

2 June 2014 Elif Akgül

Our New Paramilitaries: Trust Teams

EKİN KARACA REPORTED

Our New Paramilitaries: Trust Teams

I saw the people called “Trust Teams”, whom one doesn’t even recognize to be police officers, for the first time at a social event. They put on their show in the first year commemorations of the Gezi Resistance through swearing, violence and shouting.

2 June 2014 Ekin Karaca

Gezi Anniversary Protests: 126 Detained, 13 Wounded

Gezi Anniversary Protests: 126 Detained, 13 Wounded

Istanbul’s Gezi Anniversary Protests on Saturday left 126 demonstrators detained and 13 wounded. “İstanbul looks better thanks to peace and security,” Istanbul Provincial Police Chief Altınok said during his visit to the police in Taksim.

Police Preps for Gezi With 25K Officers, 50 TOMAs

Police Preps for Gezi With 25K Officers, 50 TOMAs

Istanbul Police Headquarters prepares to “close” part of Istanbul for May 31, the anniversary of the Gezi Resistance.

Highlights From Gezi Resistance Prosecutions

Highlights From Gezi Resistance Prosecutions

Thousands of prosecutions have been launched against those who either attended or supported Turkey’s Gezi Resistance last year for charges related to “driving mock police tanks (POMA), passing by a street or carrying whistles in their trucks.

“We will Take the Squares on May 31”

“We will Take the Squares on May 31”

Taksim Dayanışması (Taksim Solidarity Group) declared that they will be in Taksim Square at the anniversary of Gezi Resistance.

27 May 2014 Nilay Vardar

10 Hours in Kayseri Courthouse For Ali Ismail Korkmaz Trial

10 Hours in Kayseri Courthouse For Ali Ismail Korkmaz Trial

I landed on Kayseri at 08:30 in the morning. All day, I listened to the witnesses about how Ali İsmail Korkmaz was battered. I was not alone, search for justice crosses paths.

12 May 2014 Beyza Kural

Tahrir, Taksim, Tempelhof: Between Political Fields

Tahrir, Taksim, Tempelhof: Between Political Fields

“Tahrir, Taksim, Tempelhof” can be taken, therefore, as a provocation to rethink the similarities and differences as well as the connections between these sites, one located in Europe, another in the Middle East, and a third bridging the two.

22 April 2014 Theo Barry-Born

Forensics Fail to Detect Berkin Elvan’s Cause of Death

Forensics Fail to Detect Berkin Elvan’s Cause of Death

While Berkin Elvan’s autopsy report have been released this morning, it failed to provide a “certain” cause of death as it only contained footage on police intervention and no capture of Berkin.

21 April 2014 Ayça Söylemez

Sculpting Hopes of Gezi Resistance

Sculpting Hopes of Gezi Resistance

Uygur Orhan is sculpting busts of those that were murdered during Turkey’s Gezi Resistance. He is going to present the busts to their families.

17 April 2014 Selma Kara

Police Charged With 25 Years For Killing Abdullah Cömert

Police Charged With 25 Years For Killing Abdullah Cömert

Prosecutors completed the indictment concerning the death of Abdullah Cömert, a Gezi Resistance protestor who got shot in the head with gas capsule in Hatay. Police officer Ahmet Kuş has been charged with up to 25 years of sentence for “premeditated murder”.

15 April 2014 Ayça Söylemez

Last Jailed Gezi Defendants Released in Istanbul

Last Jailed Gezi Defendants Released in Istanbul

Istanbul 2nd High Criminal Court released 4 jailed defendants affiliated with Socialist Democracy Party who were detained in Taksim Square area on June 11, leaving no jailed defendants in Istanbul Gezi Resistance case.

It is Spring in Istanbul

It is Spring in Istanbul

Clouds of gas blanket the streets of Ankara and Istanbul, and the people’s eyes fill with tears. They cry for 15-year-old Berkin Elvan who is dead from a head injury caused by a gas canister fired by riot police last June.

12 March 2014 Susan Ross

Thousands Bid Farewell to Berkin Elvan

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Thousands Bid Farewell to Berkin Elvan

Thousands are bidding farewell to Berkin Elvan, a 15 year-old child who has been in comatose for 269 days due to a police gas bomb canister and died as of early yesterday morning.

Istanbulites Take Streets For Berkin Elvan

Istanbulites Take Streets For Berkin Elvan

While the police used tear gas to break up protestors, at least man was reported injured in the head by a canister and a woman suffered from crush foot by a TOMA vehicle.

11 March 2014 Beyza Kural,Yüce Yöney,Elif Akgül

Berkin Elvan, Police Violence Victim, Dies After 269 Days of Comatose

Berkin Elvan, Police Violence Victim, Dies After 269 Days of Comatose

Berkin Elvan, a 15 year-old child who has been in comatose for 269 days due to a police gas bomb canister, died as of this early morning.

Gezi Protestor’s Death Not Found “Suspicious”

Gezi Protestor’s Death Not Found “Suspicious”

Prosecutors decided not to follow charges in the death of Serdar Kadakal, a Kadıköy resident who allegedly died due to extreme use of tear gas after a Gezi Resistance protest in Istanbul.

26 February 2014 Ayça Söylemez

Abdullah Cömert’s Shooter Policeman Requested For Arrest

Abdullah Cömert’s Shooter Policeman Requested For Arrest

A further analysis on surveillance cameras have detected the identity of the policeman who shot Abdullah Cömert dead with a gas bomb canister in the Gezi Resistance. Cömert family filed a lawsuit to a prosecutor for the arrest of suspect.

21 February 2014 Ayça Söylemez

Crime: Tweeting, Victim: Prime Minister

Crime: Tweeting, Victim: Prime Minister

29 students have been ordered to stand trial for sending tweet messages including “They are torturing, please go and help”. The indictment only cited PM Erdoğan as the victim of the aforementioned tweets.

21 February 2014 Ayça Söylemez

Gezi Park and Workers

Gezi Park and Workers

The ‘overwhelmed’ masses, the majority of whom are composed of paid employees, displayed a reaction against the government, which had intervened in citizens’ lifestyles and whose unlawful policies were based on unequal growth and development. This reaction showed us that class struggle was not a phenomenon to be relegated merely to the workplace, but also in the urban sphere and daily life.

14 February 2014 Kıvanç Eliaçık

13 y.o. “Gezi” Suspect Acquitted

13 y.o. “Gezi” Suspect Acquitted

Çanakkale 1st Assize Court acquitted a 13 year old defendant who was facing 6 year of prison sentence for writing wall slogans, saying that the child was not eligible for criminalization. “Yes, I wrote,” the child said responding the judge’s inquiry.

21 January 2014 Ayça Söylemez

Police Report Recommends 13 y.o. to Be Charged With Article 301!

Police Report Recommends 13 y.o. to Be Charged With Article 301!

A 13 year old child has been ordered to stand trial on January 21 for writing wall slogans - a case for which a police report recommended the defendant child to be charged with Article 301 on “insulting Turkish Values”.

10 January 2014 Ayça Söylemez

Second Nolle Prosequi to Alabora’s Gezi Tweet

Second Nolle Prosequi to Alabora’s Gezi Tweet

Prosecutors once more dismissed probe in the case of Memet Ali Alabora, an actor and prominent Gezi Park activist who was sued for encouraging a crime.

Prosecutor: You’d Better Assemble in Kazlıçeşme

Prosecutor: You’d Better Assemble in Kazlıçeşme

Prosecutor decided not to follow charges on PM Erdoğan, Deputy PM Arınç and former minister Güler related to Gezi Resistance, saying that the appropriate demonstration area was in Kazlıçeşme.

6 January 2014 Ayça Söylemez

Gezi Resistance Documentary Faces Investigation

Gezi Resistance Documentary Faces Investigation

Prosecutors launched an investigation on “Başlangıç”, a documentary on Gezi Resistance, for “insulting public workers” and “igniting public towards vengeance and hostility”.

2 January 2014 Elif Akgül

Dilan’s Memory Returns As She Hears of Ethem’s Name

Dilan’s Memory Returns As She Hears of Ethem’s Name

bianet interviewed Dilan Dursun, a Gezi protestor who suffered from brain injury due to tears gas bomb canister after Ethem Sarısülük’s funeral ceremony on June 16.

13 December 2013 Beyza Kural

Fadime Ayvalıtaş, Mother of Deceased Gezi Protestor, Dies

Fadime Ayvalıtaş, Mother of Deceased Gezi Protestor, Dies

“Fadime Ayvalıtaş was under extreme stress after the loss of her son,” advocate Ayla Öztabak told bianet.

13 December 2013 Ekin Karaca

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