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  • SAT
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    Turkish PM, president **** heads over protests

    Erdogan calls demonstrators looters, Gul says they’re citizens exercising their right to peaceful protest
    http://www.timesofisrael.com/turkish...over-protests/

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    ‘I’ve never seen my people so united,’ says Turkish journalist

    Sevin Turan tells Times of Israel that mass anti-government protests have brought together people from all social, economic backgrounds
    http://www.timesofisrael.com/watch-i...sh-journalist/

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  • SAT
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    He is starting to say the same things we heard from Assad, Mubarak, Gaddafi and on and on .

    Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan accused anti-government protesters on Monday of walking "arm-in-arm with terrorism", remarks that could further inflame public anger after three days of some of the most violent riots in decades.
    http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...94U0J920130603

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    At any other time this would be blip but for this to be exposed now isn't helping Erdogan

    Turkish company says provides Syria with diesel

    The Turkish foreign ministry declined to comment on the specific matter but reiterated its position on Assad regime.

    "Turkey's position on Syrian regime's brutality against its own people has been made obvious and Turkey would not be able to ignore any support or aid efforts to this situation," a foreign ministry official said.
    http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/T...-diesel-315284

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    Reaction from the EU and the US at a time Turkey thought it was making progress entering the EU

    As clashes between demonstrators and police sparked by the destruction of a municipal park in Istanbul continued into their fourth day on Monday, the European Union blasted the Turkish security forces for their “disproportionate” use of force, while the United States called on them to “exercise restraint.”

    But it is the increasingly authoritarian character of the Erdogan regime, now serving his third term in office, which seems to be at the heart of the protest movement.


    http://www.timesofisrael.com/for-now...m-experts-say/

    The headline for the above article...

    For now, Erdogan can weather storm, experts say

    But expresses concern..

    the defiant PM might yet overplay his hand
    Now...

    Turkish union to strike from Tuesday over unrest

    Turkey's Public Workers Unions Confederation (KESK) said on Monday it would hold a "warning strike" on June 4-5 to protest at a crackdown on anti-government protests over the last four days.

    "The state terror implemented against mass protests across the country ... has shown once again the enmity to democracy of the AKP government," said a statement from the leftist confederation KESK, which has some 240,000 members in 11 unions.
    http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/T...-unrest-315266

    Don't know how accurate this is but there are comments online this is adding to Iran's worries there could be a "Spring" in Iran soon.
    Last edited by SAT; 06-03-2013, 11:08 AM.

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    Originally posted by SAT View Post
    PS
    One of the Reuters articles stated the young are afraid if Erdogan isn't stopped now they will be force to wear head scarfs soon.
    Curiously, Jane said she noticed at the malls he is building you see more and more women wearing head scarfs. They tend to have a more religious business atmosphere.

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  • SAT
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    Originally posted by John H. View Post
    Just talked to our daughter a couple of hours ago and she said Social Media was what was doing Erdogan in because the true story is getting out as he tries to suppress the media.

    Jane says his son is a contractor and is the reason he is into shopping malls especially the one in the only remaining green space in Istanbul. Rumor has it that he wants to run for President, too, and is building a campaign strategy.

    She says the violence is pretty bad and the pictures of the police helping the kids they just gassed are a setup. The police are being directed by the government even though it is trying to say they are on their own.
    Wow that does totally confirm what is getting out. Obviously it is so much more then just a park.
    It is interesting as the military in Turkey has been the guardian of secularism for years and years. They had been accused recently of planning to overthrow Erdogan if he change the constitution away from secular.

    Rumor has it that he wants to run for President, too, and is building a campaign strategy.
    That sounds so much like Mubarak and one of the reason Egypt was finally pushed over the edge.
    Erdogan apparently, as hard as he has tried, can't run in the coming election. One can only imagine that is why his son's name is coming up.

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    One of the Reuters articles stated the young are afraid if Erdogan isn't stopped now they will be force to wear head scarfs soon.


    Now in his last term as prime minister, Erdogan is trying to leave his stamp on Turkey by recasting foreign policy, overhauling the constitution and even transforming the ancient Istanbul skyline.

    But some, including former supporters, accuse him of growing increasingly authoritarian, muzzling the media, tightening his AK party's grip on state institutions and putting religion at the centre of politics in violation of Turkey's secular constitution.

    "If it were up to the prime minister, I would be wearing a head scarf," said Tugba Bitiktas, a 25-year-old unemployed university graduate, before she joined anti-government protests in central Istanbul late on Saturday
    http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...9510DJ20130602
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    Efrat Aviv, a researcher at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies and a lecturer in the department of Middle East studies at Bar-Ilan University, who closely follows the Turkish media, told The Jerusalem Post that it is difficult to find out what is going on because Turkey does not have a freedom of the press and its media are not broadcasting much about the protests.

    In addition, she said, one of her contacts inside the country said that on Saturday, Facebook and Twitter were shut down for a few hours.

    Aviv sees the outburst as a result of a building tension that blew up because of a number of factors that have been irritating a large segment of the population, and not only secular Turks, but also some religious people and Erdogan voters.
    http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Ara...-Turkey-315217

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    Originally posted by SAT View Post
    PM Erdogan says social media 'danger to society'


    http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...387396,00.html
    Just talked to our daughter a couple of hours ago and she said Social Media was what was doing Erdogan in because the true story is getting out as he tries to suppress the media.

    Jane says his son is a contractor and is the reason he is into shopping malls especially the one in the only remaining green space in Istanbul. Rumor has it that he wants to run for President, too, and is building a campaign strategy.

    She says the violence is pretty bad and the pictures of the police helping the kids they just gassed are a setup. The police are being directed by the government even though it is trying to say they are on their own.

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  • SAT
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    For those who are interested Haaretz has a live blog up and running re Turkey

    http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-e...h-day-1.527385

    But it has widened into a broader show of defiance against Erdogan and his Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP).
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    PM Erdogan says social media 'danger to society'

    "There is now a menace which is called Twitter," Erdogan said. "The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society."
    http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...387396,00.html

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    Erdogan singled out the Republican People's Party (CHP) - set up in 1924 by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk who founded Turkey's modern secular state - for attack over a dispute he described as ideological.

    "We think that the main opposition party which is making resistance calls on every street is provoking these protests," Erdogan said on Turkish television.

    Turkey's fiercest anti-government unrest for years erupted when trees were torn down at a park in Taksim Square under government plans to construct a new mosque and rebuild a replica Ottoman-era barracks.

    "This reaction is no longer about the ripping out 12 trees. This is based on ideology," said Erdogan, whose conservative vision for the nation has angered more liberal Turks. Referring to the planned mosque, he added: "Obviously I will not ask for permission for this from the head of CHP or a few looters."
    http://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/erd...141031558.html

    on Sunday of stirring a wave of anti-government protests, as tens of thousands regrouped in Istanbul and Ankara after a lull and trouble flared again in the capital.

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  • SAT
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    If she says something you feel you can share.....


    The reason a "park" could start all this.

    Arabs worriedly watch Turkey simmer
    The Qatari news channel Al-Jazeera reports that a public park sparked a clash between Turkey’s Islamists and secularists. The outlet explains that 73 years ago, secularists destroyed an Ottoman fortress and built a park in its stead. Now, Erdogan wants to rebuild the original Ottoman fortress.
    http://www.timesofisrael.com/arabs-w...turkey-simmer/
    Last edited by SAT; 06-02-2013, 09:55 AM.

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    Originally posted by SAT View Post
    Hi John

    Saying a prayer for your daughter.
    Thanks, SAT! We hope to skype with her tomorrow and get an update?

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    Turkish police detained 939 people in protests: Interior Minister
    Turkish police detained 939 people in 90 different demonstrations across Turkey, interior minister Muammer Guler said on Saturday.
    http://news.yahoo.com/turkish-police...193022852.html

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