A HUMANITARIAN CALL TO THE GOVERNMENT OF TURKEY
PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION OF TURKEY Address: Tunus Cad. 59 / 5 Kavaklıdere / Ankara / Turkey Phone: +90 312 468 74 97 Fax:+90 312 426 04 53 Web Site: www.psikiyatri.org.tr E-mail: [email protected] PRESS RELEASE June 2, 2013 A very extra-ordinary social movement started in Istanbul 6 days ago and spread across Turkey and other major cities of the World. At the core of the reaction was the Turkish government’s decision to demolish the historical Taksim Gezi Park in the center of Istanbul for the re-development of the area by building a commercial building in the form of an old Ottoman military…
Will Turkish PM Erdogan’s Authoritarian Rule Blow Up in His Face?
Republic of Turkey has been rocked by the 3rd day of protests, in what started as a small scale, peaceful sit-in protest against the demolishing of a historic public park in Istanbul, has escalated into some of the worst scenes of public disorder and police violence seen in the country in recent years. The clashes over Gezi Park, next to Taksim Square, broke out Thursday and continued there and in the capital, Ankara today. The re-development plan of the park includes a shopping mall designed as Ottoman era military barracks, and requires all the trees in the park to be…
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