(en) Turkey in Riot

Few lines about the protests in Turkey. The protests started with Istanbul Metropolitan 
Municipality's plan to build up a mall into the Gezi Park in Taksim downtown of Istanbul. 
Cops attacked few times to the people who had occupied Gezi Park in the very early hours 
of the morning and civilian cops destroyed their tents. On Friday during a huge protest in 
Taksim square, cops violently attacked again without warning people. This led many people 
in lots of cities to full the streets in order to protest the government and police 
violence. Downtowns of Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir are all occupied with hundreds of 
thousands of people. Cops never gave up throwing gas bombs on the people; hundreds of 
people were "shot" with gas bombs, some lost his/her eyes, some were shot in their heads.

(one was shot with real bullet in Ankara) Over 1000 people got arrested countrywide, 
however according to the latest news all those arrests in Istanbul got released, no info 
from other cities. The people, ordinary people are fighting for freedom, defending their 
urban areas, protesting police violence and neoliberal-conservative policies of the 
Islamist-liberal government. They are from various backgrouds; mostly leftwing people even 
some nationalists, radical left and anarchists. Most of them have just met with such 
police violence, most may have never been in the streets before. Although some political 
parties try to manipulate the protests, there exists no dominant figure. In neighborhoods 
of many cities local residents organized marchs, those sitting in their homes made noise 
with pots, chanted. The riot is probably the greatest in the history of Turkey (at least 
in the West of Turkey- 'coz Kurds in the East are resisting for a couple of decades).

The interesting thing is that Erdogan leader of governing party AKP still defending the 
project, didnot gave up and even mentioned about constructing a mosque in Taksim. (also 
added that "twitter is a damn thing") Though they didnt censored internet or social media 
yet, the media is fully "self"censored. People either get news from a few limited TV 
channels or from social media (in some cases from international media). People are self 
organized; lawyers, doctors, pharmacists helping activists and injured people for free. In 
some cases, cafes, bars, hotels open their doors to the activists. We all need solidarity! 
Please spread this and organize solidarity actions in front of Turkish embassies or 
consulates in possible!