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Riots in Turkey

Taksim stages exuberant gay pride march joined by Gezi protesters
After a month of protests, Istanbul's Taksim Square braced June 30 for the 11th annual gay pride march, as thousands of gay rights activists and demonstrators who participated in the Gezi Park gatherings marched on the iconic İstiklal Avenue.

Rainbow flags and banners supporting peace in Turkish, Kurdish, Armenian and Arabic were displayed at the march.​
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ta...sters.aspx?pageID=238&nID=49779&NewsCatID=339
 
‘Jewish diaspora’ behind Gezi protests: Turkish deputy prime minister says
Foreign powers and the Jewish diaspora have triggered the unrest in Turkey and worked effectively to boost it, Deputy Prime Minister Beşir Atalay said yesterday in the Central Anatolian province of Kırıkkale.

Atalay also said the international media had a big role in "the conspiracy" and had led the unrest “well.” “The ones trying to block the way of Great Turkey will not succeed,” he said.

“There are some circles that are jealous of Turkey’s growth. They are all uniting, on one side the Jewish diaspora. You saw the foreign media’s attitude during the Gezi Park incidents; they bought it and started broadcasting immediately, without doing an evaluation of the [case],” Atalay said.​

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/je...-says.aspx?pageID=238&nID=49858&NewsCatID=338

Yurp, it's those evil Joooz again. FMD. :rolleyes: No, this mentality totally ***** me.
 
Sideroxylon said:
‘Jewish diaspora’ behind Gezi protests: Turkish deputy prime minister says
Foreign powers and the Jewish diaspora have triggered the unrest in Turkey and worked effectively to boost it, Deputy Prime Minister Beşir Atalay said yesterday in the Central Anatolian province of Kırıkkale.

Atalay also said the international media had a big role in "the conspiracy" and had led the unrest “well.” “The ones trying to block the way of Great Turkey will not succeed,” he said.

“There are some circles that are jealous of Turkey’s growth. They are all uniting, on one side the Jewish diaspora. You saw the foreign media’s attitude during the Gezi Park incidents; they bought it and started broadcasting immediately, without doing an evaluation of the [case],” Atalay said.​



http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/je...-says.aspx?pageID=238&nID=49858&NewsCatID=338

Yurp, it's those evil Joooz again. FMD. :rolleyes: No, this mentality totally ***** me.
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FINALLY!

Of course they already did the 'foreign agents' thing, but was I starting to suspect they had enough sense not make total idiots of themselves by going Full Retard.

Or at least have their media lapdogs do it for them.

But there it is in its full glory: The Jews ate my homework.

To paraphrase Chris Rock: That train is never late.
 
It's a shame. Turkey and Israel have always had a very good relationship, up until recent times.
 
Plenty of surreal and bigoted statements coming from members of the ruling party recently.

Ankara mayor asks opposition deputy on Twitter: Are you gay?
Ankara Mayor Melih Gökçek posted a tweet yesterday addressing Republican People's Party (CHP) Tunceli deputy Hüseyin Aygün, asking him whether or not he was gay.

“Hüseyin Aygün, are you gay? Don't misunderstand me, we’re just wondering. They’re also wondering in Tunceli,” Gökçek said in his tweet, linking to an Internet news item reporting the participation of three CHP deputies, including Aygün, in the 11th annual LGBT Pride March in Istanbul.​
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/an...u-gay.aspx?PageID=238&NID=49853&NewsCatID=341
 
Orphia Nay said:
Wow, they seem to be protesting anything and everything.
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I saw a photo of graffiti that said, "We are protesting something."

The most recent rallies were planed. The LGBT pride rally is an annual event and it was the 20th anniversary of the Sivas Massacre.

There were quite a number of police and a rally downtown but no anti-riot vehicles and no clashes as far as I know. Perhaps the government is learning that gas and riot squads will only fuel the situation.
 
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Central Istanbul needs more green spaces. There's almost no grass and much of what does exist is semi-locked up in tourist attractions - or is at a very steep grade.

It's a stunning city, virtually a monument in its own right but parks are not its strong suit. It doesn't surprise me that this became a political flashpoint. Now I guess it's about Erdogan's heavy-handedness.
 
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Minoosh said:
Central Istanbul needs more green spaces. There's almost no grass and much of what does exist is semi-locked up in tourist attractions - or is at a very steep grade.

It's a stunning city, virtually a monument in its own right but parks are not its strong suit. It doesn't surprise me that this became a political flashpoint. Now I guess it's about Erdogan's heavy-handedness.
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Though that might have been part of the initial spark, I understand that the park has symbolic meaning to secular Turks.
I read that AKP is slowly claiming public spaces with secular symbols/history/monuments and replaces them with Islamic ones.
 
It was an early move by the post Ottoman secular republic to demolish the old barracks that existed on the site. There is symbolism in the Islamic leaning Justice and Development Party (AKP) wanting to rebuild them.
 
Childlike Empress said:
You should mention that the plan was to hold a referendum to change the constitution into reducing the parliamentary influence and strengthen the position of the President, and then the current president Gul and the current prime minister (who cannot run again) would do a Putin-Medvedew switch stunt making Erdogan the shining all-new powerful president. Hopefully at least this plan will be prevented by current events - this man sure has proven that he shouldn't have even more power in his hands.
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Now, with unchanged constitution but Erdogan President and the then-Foreign Minister now Prime Minister, today's parliamentary elections are in the late stage of counting and it seems to be safe to say that the pro-Kurdish, leftist HDP managed against all odds to jump over the 10% hurdle and will enter parliament.

While, not least thanks to that, Erdogan's AKP has lost the absolute majority. Which is great news for those who don't want Erdogan to make himself Sultan - for now, because as I understand it, it's extremely difficult to form a coalition among any of the four parties that made it, so early new elections are already talked about.

Anyway, there will be celebrations in Kurdistan tonight.
 
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With no coalition formed, tomorrow will be the next election, and the polls predict that the result will be similar to the last one, with a slight tendency that AKP will come out even weaker and HDP even stronger. If this happens, it's difficult to predict what will follow in a progressively deteriorating situation with a head of state that is domestically acting more and more like a true dictator, while now being at odds over Syria with both the US and Russia. An interesting attempt at looking inside his head is here.
 
Sad result.

Many Turkish friends told me the AKP was bad news. I thought the Army backed regime was undemocratic and Erogan was a breath of fresh air, bringing greater democracy and freedom. I the foreigner was wrong. They knew his type.
 
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