***** #OccupyTurkey WeAreGezi OccupyGezi PhotoFeed BLOG

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Photos are coming out of Turkey at a steady stream despite M$M's near blockade on the protests of the last week.

Please use this thread to post any photos you find pertinent from the last week and as they stream.
#occupygezi https://twitter.com/search?q=%23occupygezi
#wearegezi https://twitter.com/search?q=%23WeAreGezi
#occupyturkey https://twitter.com/search?q=%23occupyturkey

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36 Surreal And Defiant Photos From Istanbul’s #OccupyGezi
These are the quirky, tired, and dramatic faces of Turkish activism.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/36-surreal-and-defiant-photos-from-istanbuls-occupygezi

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1. Police violence video = The Police in this video must be IDENTIFIED

Published on Jun 1, 2013

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2. The woman in the red dress = the new icon of Turkish protest

https://twitter.com/denizkarakas62/status/342449339106480128/photo/1

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10. And now, the banner for posing, I guess.

https://twitter.com/RosarioLambiase/status/342491988442099712/photo/1

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3. What happens when a tear gas cannister hits your head?

What happens if a tear gas canister hits you?
It happened to university guard Yakup Duman
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4. Police attacking elderly man

Serra Köker ?
Gözleriylen yidi vallaha!
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5. Housemates are watching the evening (mainstream media) news. I asked if Turkey had been

mentioned and they said no.

Of course. Thanks for thread!

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6. THIS is how you organize a protest.

WOW!

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7. Full-Page Ad Inspired By Turkish Protests Is One Of Indiegogo's Fastest Campaigns Ever

https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=%23occupyturkey
Civil disobedience in the digital age - crowdsourced fundraising for a full-page ad

As protests have rocked Turkey over the past few days, three Turkish professionals in the U.S. decided on Sunday that they had to take some action. Turning to their technology backgrounds, the trio launched a crowd-sourced fundraising campaign on Indiegogo to buy a full-page ad in the front section of the New York Times in support of their fellow Turkish citizens who’ve clashed with the government across dozens of cities. In just a matter of hours, they’d jump-started the fastest major politics funding campaigns in Indiegogo’s history.

The campaign received donations from 50 countries at a clip of over $2,500 per hour over its first day, crossing its $53,800 goal in about 21 hours, according to Indiegogo, and it’s at over $85,000 just 36 hours after launch. ....

http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2013/06/04/full-page-ad-inspired-by-turkish-protests-is-one-of-indiegogos-fastest-campaigns-ever/

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8. Tear Gassing a Hospital in Turkey

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9. Protesters occupying Gezi Park

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11. Why My 60-Year-Old Mother is Protesting the Turkish Government

http://bitchmagazine.org/post/why-my-60-year-old-mother-is-protesting-the-turkish-government

... Ten years ago, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his far-right religious AK Party came into power in Turkey. His rise to power was cause for alarm among progressive secular Turks, who wanted to uphold a democracy that has strictly separated government and religion. The separation of church and state is a founding element of Turkey’s modern government—just like America’s—and was put into place by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in 1923. This central policy states that members of any religion can practice their faith without letting their beliefs interfere with public policy and atheists or agnostics (like me) don’t have to live by religious rules.

Ten years ago, Turks like me feared that AK Party, with its fundamentalist Islamic views, would meticulously chip away at Turkey’s secular laws, cultural and social progress, and Ataturk’s modern legacy one small chunk at a time, molding Turkey into a country more like its neighboring Islamic states. As AK Party stayed in power since then, those fears have all been realized. The future for a progressive, secular Turkey is becoming grimmer by the second.

Like the right-wing in America, AK Party has been eroding women’s rights through making religious standards a part of their laws, trying to shame and discredit secular women and keep religious women under even more control. They signed legislation that limited rights to abortions, birth control, and for some reason, C-sections. They spread homophobic lies about the gay community while officially calling homosexuality a disease.

During the last couple of years, with more executive power under his fingertips, Erdogan ramped up his efforts to turn Turkey into an Islamic autocratic state. .........

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12. more images this morning

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RT: PHOTO: Burned bus turned into library by activists on Taksim Square
http://instagram.com/p/aMREQwM3HZ/#

"ay it's revolution for reals!"
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Turkish patisserie Mado: You broke our windows but not our hearts
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13. The tweets that got one person detained:

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14. Two covers for the economist this month

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15. This is Kayseri, where the AKP got 80% of the total votes in the last local elections.

Results for #WeAreGezi



Yiğitcan Erdoğan ?
Police do not discriminate. They don't care. The crowd in kizilay yesterday had elderly people in it. They gassed anyway
Me and my friends have been resisting for a week now. None of us threw stones or even cussed. Yet all of us were gassed.

Map of Environmental Injustices in Turkey - Gezi Parkı is not the only struggle
https://twitter.com/politikekoloji/status/342577292263964672/photo/1

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16. "Coming to parks exclusively in Turkey - Les Chapulables"

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http://twitpic.com/cvmnev

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