Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Turkey Joins New Arab Spring

But on the wrong side:

Riots in South-Eastern Turkey after Military Operations

Thousands of people in south-eastern Turkey demonstrated against military operations that left 12 PKK members and 5 soldiers dead. Shops in the region remained closed, schools were boycotted. Demonstrators clashed with the police.

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Students of the Atatürk High School in Cizre (Şırnak) boycotted the lessons and chanted the slogan "Martyrs don't die" during some of the lessons. It was reported that the nearby Cizre Military Branch opened gunfire towards the school. No students were injured but the windows of the school flew into flinders and the walls were considerably damaged by the bullet holes.

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In Istanbul, about one thousand people gathered on the Galatasary Square in central Istanbul on Monday to protest the operations of the Turkish Armed Forces against the PKK. A short commotion occurred when the crowd tried to walk along Istiklal Avenue towards Takism.

The police stopped the demonstrators from walking to Taksim.

And this from yesterday:

There were also protests in Hakkari, where many store owners kept their stores shut in protest of the deaths of the 12 PKK members.

Protestors attacked police with stones during illegal demonstrations in Batman and Siirt. In response, the police stepped up security measures in these provinces.

Some background, or another opinion.

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1 comment:

alevi said...

no man!these are not kind of arab springs:)
they used to protest and the government stop them regularly:) we are pretty used to see these conflicts
they are nationalist pro pkk kurds and they are in right direction of what they do:)but why the hell they still votes for akp in general election after all demonstrations and protests!
because the way i see it that most kurd citizens love islamic statements!do not believe they vote for akp because of economic reasons its just a funny reason:)no economic benefit for most citizens in turkey...
there was/is always a big dictatorial government!
1 ottoman islamic dicta, 2 kemalist or secular masked islamic dicta and finally 3 protestant looking islamic akp dicta which pretented to be pro secular but actually pro islamdom :)i wanna congratulation american stupids and islamist stupids in coorporation for their secret agenda against israel and her ethnic families in this area...
islamist slave regimes(hypocrites) just need a slap on their face at all!!!