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Turkish Spring: Taksim Gezi Park protests in Istanbul
(Estimated 40,000 people cross the Bosphorous Bridge to join the protests/OccupyGeziPics) Taksim Gezi Park in Istanbul is alive with protest at this moment. The action began on May 28, when...
View ArticleWhat is the social media style of protest?
Zeynep Tufekci's essay analyzing the role that social media played in both the #OccupyGezi and the Arab Spring explores the differences and similarities between different uprisings, and has some very...
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Protester kicking away teargas cannister
From OccupyGeziPics: an uncredited photo of a woman in at the Turkish anti-government/pro-democracy protests kicking away a tear-gas cannister. It's an amazing shot -- like something out of a Banksy...
View ArticleRoundup of #occupygezi
Mathilda writes, Throughout the weekend, protests have erupted in Turkey in response to the brutal pacification of a peaceful sit-in in Istanbul. Over 1,700 people have been arested and there are...
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OccupyGezi: the People's Bulldozer
Two photos from the OccupyGeziPics Tumblr show the "people's bulldozer" in action -- apparently a mechanical digger commandeered off a building site by protesters in Besiktas (one of my Twitter...
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Gas-mask dervish: #occupygezi
Mathilda sez, "In this photo by Twitter user @joeman24, a gas-mask wearing Dervish dances in front of protesters in Turkey." A gas-mask wearing Whirling Dervish shows support for protesters in #Turkey
View ArticleInterview with Turkish woman occupying Gezi Park
Rene from the German site Nerdcore sez, "A friend of mine who is staying in Istanbul right now contacted me this morning and I had the opportunity to interview a girl who is occupying Gezi Park in...
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Scenes from #OccupyGezi
Three photos picked from the OccupyGeziPics Tumblr, chosen for their vivid incongruities, and also to remind us all that Turkey still fights for the right to protest: Another photo of the woman in red...
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Photos from #OccupyGezi
In case you've forgotten it amidst the Prism and Greek broadcaster shut-down stories, here's a reminder that the police are still engaged in a brutal crackdown on protesters across Turkey, courtesy of...
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Why are the protesters in Gezi Park?
Zeynep Tufekci, a Turkish-American Princeton/UNC sociologist who studies social movements and the Internet is presently in Istanbul's Gezi Park at the protests. She follows up on her earlier piece on...
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Turkish EU minister: protesters will be treated as terrorists
Turkish police used extreme force to eject the protesters from Taksim Square yesterday. Egemen Bağış, Turkey's representative in the EU, gave a televised address in which he said, "[The police] will...
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Brutal crackdown on Turkish protests
Barricades at Nisantasi, at 4:50AM Sunday Poiu is in Turkey; he writes: " Since yesterday evening, everything has worsened. Unfortunately it is not really covered by local media, the consequence of...
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Young Gezi protester waits out the tear-gas in a Burger King
From the Occupy Gezi Pics tumblr: "A young girl in a Burger King restaurant on Sunday, after she managed to escape the tear gas outside. The caption reads: 'Spring will come again. I promise you.'" A...
View ArticleTurkish cops shoot a protester's drone out of the sky
Above, footage of a protester's quadcopter in Gezi Park getting shot down by the Turkish Police. Below, the footage of police violence the drone had been capturing (complete with music that sounds...
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Scenes from Turkey and Brazil
(A protester in Sao Paulo kisses a Turkish flag. Brazilians say they were, to a large extent, influenced by #occupygezi) Yup, they're still in the streets in Turkey. And Brazil. And it's not just...
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Turks bid farewell to the Internet in the face of brutal...
Turkey's brutal new Internet law grants the Turkish Telecommunications Directorate the power to arbitrarily censor Web-pages to the individual URL level, much like the Great Firewall of China --...
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