For the organisers and the marchers, the task now is to build on it if they are to pave an alternative road ahead for Turkey. Image source, Getty Images. The marchers wear white T-shirts emblazoned with the Turkish word for justice. Challenging Erdogan's purge. Erdogan's Turkey: The full story Profile: Erdogan's rise to power Turkey parades coup suspects outside court. What is wrong with Turkey, I asked?
That's all. Image source, Goktay Koraltan. The protesters intend to reach their destination of Istanbul on Sunday. Opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu began the march on 15 June and his stance has galvanised supporters. Fired academic Ulas Bayraktar says he has nothing more to lose by marching against President Erdogan. Image source, EPA. Marchers are sustained by watermelon and meatballs at the end of the day.
Erdogan wanted to rebuild an Ottoman barracks that had been demolished in , and which would include a shopping mall. Read more : What's left of Turkey's Gezi protest movement? Demonstrators spontaneously occupied the park. They kept watch around the clock from tents. Gaye Boralioglu also came by regularly. In another they danced. Everybody helped each other, without money.
We were happy. The images were broadcast around the world, as were the words of Prime Minister Erdogan. He described the demonstrators as "marauders" and "terrorists. It is difficult to say how much support there was for the Gezi movement.
According to a survey by opinion research institute, Konda, 40 percent of those questioned saw the protests as a "democratic struggle for civil rights and freedom," while more than 50 percent saw it as a "conspiracy against Turkey. Gaye Boralioglu has written about her personal memories of this time. One of her short stories has been translated into German. They are moving forward. They are marching, despite the gas, fog and smoke.
They laugh and go on. In the police crackdown to stamp out the protests, at least five people were killed and more than 8, injured. If we do not raise our voice, more of the like will follow. If people demanding peace are arrested today, who knows why others will be arrested tomorrow? Turkey targets Kurds: The , and word story. Turkey brain drain: Crackdown pushes intellectuals out. Who are the Kurds? Erdogan: Turkey's pugnacious president. Turkey country profile.
Students show posters of detained colleagues. Profile: Turkey's pugnacious president Long read: Erdogan's Turkey. Ozgur Tuncer left says Turkey treats people who are against war as terror propagandists. Yaren's parents hold a poster of the student, detained last month in Istanbul. Afrin: Why is Turkey targeting Kurdish forces? Image source, Getty Images. President Erdogan has accused critics of Turkey's operation in Afrin of treason.
Related Topics. They arrested more than protesters in all, most of whom were released after a short time. Protesters detained in Istanbul in early January, all of whom were released, told Human Rights Watch that the police conducted strip-searches and verbally abused and threatened them in some cases. Three reported that police held guns to their heads during house raids, and two said the police also slapped and insulted them.
The president and senior officials have directly encouraged a tough police response throughout. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender LGBT students and protesters have been playing a key role in ongoing demonstrations. Police arrested two students who appear in a video of the exhibition that was streamed to the internet, and two others who were presumed to be among LGBT organizers on campus.
On the same day, the police raided a room used by a student LGBT club and confiscated flags and books. The arrests and detentions come against the backdrop of heavy restrictions on public protest in Turkey ; abuses of power by the government to silence critical groups; and targeting of minority groups, including LGBT people.
The authorities have sometimes justified bans on demonstrations by citing the risk of Covid alongside unspecified threats to public order. Despite some debate and protests over that appointment, the academics and the university students later accepted the appointee. After his term ended in November , the appointed rector became a candidate for a second term. The police responded with teargas, rubber bullets, and water cannons to disperse the crowd.
Protests have been ongoing ever since. Excessive Police Force The Turkish authorities have consistently responded to the protests with excessive use of force and arbitrary detention. Excessive use of force was evident on the first day of protests, January 4.
Another student, who gave his first name as Muhammed, said that he saw police officers dragging a protester to a bus parked inside the university premises.
The police interference was even harsher on February 1, when police blocked students inside the campus from leaving and protesters outside the campus from gathering. Human Rights Watch witnessed police officers use excessive force to arrest at least four peaceful protesters who showed no signs of aggression. Riot police entered the campus that evening to disperse the crowd and arrested more than 50 students.
On February 2, the excessive use of force escalated significantly, Human Rights Watch saw videos and images of students with broken teeth , faces covered in blood, and several police officers kicking protesters who were not attempting to resist arrest. Violent police crackdowns on protesters resumed in the following days.
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