BREAKING NEWS:Turkey street riots

[Peter Lemkin]

TV watchdog fines live streaming of Gezi protests for harming development of children, youth'

ISTANBUL - Hürriyet


The Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÃœK) has fined a number of channels, including Halk TV, for "harming the physical, moral and mental development of children and young people" by broadcasting coverage of the Gezi Park protests.

(my bolding) I've heard some real bollocks in my time but this tops the lot. Absolutely.

Where do these people get their spin and nonsense from? Is there a new global spin chain - Bullshit-Is-Us on the outlet park?

Dave, they may even wind up stunted physically in their physical growth....not to mention their 'ethical/political' growth....so go 'easy'....:lol: The world has gone mad, with the madmen in total control............it is more than obvious [except how to counter it!] :darthvader:

[Magda Hassan]

The Turkish government says it has agreed to suspend redevelopment plans for an Istanbul park until a court ruling, after talks with protesters.
The plan to rebuild an old barracks on Gezi Park has sparked Turkey's biggest anti-government protests in decades.
A government spokesman said there would be no attempt to start the project until a court decided whether or not it was legal.
If the court backed the government, the project would be put to a popular vote.
'Positive outcome' Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, held late-night talks in the capital Ankara with delegates from the Taksim Solidarity group.
The negotiations came hours after he had delivered a "final warning" to the protesters to leave the park.
Tayfun Kahraman of the protest group Taksim Solidarity described the prime minister's pledge that the development would not continue before a final court decision as "a positive outcome" from Thursday night's talks.
He said the protesters would evaluate the outcome of the meeting and would present their decision on Friday evening.
Five people have died and thousands have been injured since the protests began in Gezi Park on 31 May, spreading to the adjacent Taksim Square a day later and other cities across Turkey.


The contested park is a rare patch of green in Turkey's biggest city.
Last month, an Istanbul court issued an initial injunction against the plan to cut down trees in the park to make way for an 18th Century replica Ottoman-era military barracks and a shopping centre. The government has appealed against the ruling.
The project was the initial spark for the protests, which then broadened into anti-government demonstrations in several cities.
Protesters have accused Mr Erdogan's government of becoming increasingly authoritarian and of trying to impose conservative Islamic values on a secular state.
Government spokesman Huseyin Celik, from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), said that if the court ruled that the park could be developed, a vote would be held "to hear the people's opinions about the situation".
He said the park "should not be a place where people live for 24 hours," and that "the environmentalists should leave".
"We will ask everyone in Istanbul what they think.
"Anyone who doesn't want a vote can't speak of democracy."
The BBC's correspondent in Istanbul, James Reynolds, says the Turkish government hopes that the understandings reached early on Friday will be enough to make the protesters leave the park.
But on Friday morning, tents remained pitched and the occupation continues, he reports.
Protests in Taksim Square since 1 June Continue reading the main story Mr Erdogan has taken a tough line on the protests, branding the demonstrators as "extremists" and "looters". He has said the unrest was being encouraged by foreign forces to undermine Turkey and its economy.Speaking at a meeting of the AKP in Ankara earlier on Thursday, Mr Erdogan said: "Our patience is at an end. I am making my warning for the last time.""I say to the mothers and fathers, please take your children in hand and bring them out," he added, going on to say that the park belonged not "to occupying forces but to the people."The police crackdown on protesters has drawn international concern, especially from Europe.On Thursday, the European Parliament passed a non-binding resolution that "deplores the reactions of the Turkish Government and of Prime Minister Erdogan, whose unwillingness to take steps towards reconciliation, to apologise or to understand the reactions of a segment of the Turkish population have only contributed to further polarisation".
Mr Erdogan angrily dismissed the resolution shortly before it was passed.
Also on Thursday, White House spokesman Jay Carney said the US expected Turkish authorities to uphold the "fundamental freedoms" of expression and assembly.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22902308

[Magda Hassan]

Turkey Protests: Government Targets Doctors Who Treated Injured Demonstrators

By Timur Moon: Subscribe to Timur's RSS feed | June 15, 2013 12:55 PM GMT



An estimated 7,500 people have been injured in the unrest, with the majority requiring treatment for tear gas exposure


Doctors who treated protesters wounded in clashes with riot police in Turkey are to be investigated by the government in a move likely to inflame tensions further.
The Health Ministry had demanded a list of the names of all doctors who treated demonstrators from the Turkish Medical Association (TBB), the association said on Friday 14 June.
The TBB estimates that 7,500 people have been injured in the unrest, the overwhelming number suffering from teargas exposure.
The association said it was ordered to "immediately" give up the names of medical workers and their patients, but had vowed not to co-operate.

The authorities also signalled they would take steps to close down media outlets that broadcast images of demonstrations last week."We were notified that an investigation has been launched into the improvised clinics that treated the protesters," said Osman Öztürk of the TBB.
Turkey's state television regulator shut down one channel that offered continuous live coverage of the protests. Hayat TV went off air "for broadcasting from abroad without a licence", the Radio and Television Supreme Council said.
On Tuesday, the regulator fined Hayat TV and three stations that ran extensive coverage of the protests for "encouraging people to violence".
On Friday night, the BBC suspended its partnership with NTV after the private channel refused to air the Turkish version of the World Agenda programme.
However, the government was forced to back down on plans to redevelop Gezi park in Istanbul, which sparked the protests last month. Police were criticised for the heavy-handedness of their response to the initial protests.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister, agreed to abide by a court decision on his plan to uproot Gezi Park. He said he would hold a referendum if the court rules in favour of it.
"If judiciary in the end allows the project we'll still apply the public vote," he said. "It won't be a military barracks but a city museum - 80% of trees will be within the city museum, the rest will be planted around the complex."
Taksim Solidarity, one group representing the protesters, hailed the move as "positive".
The government also turned its sights on Twitter, demanding the company set up a local division as "they receive advertising revenue without paying a penny in tax".
Police have arrested a number of people who are accused of stirring up protests by posting messages on the site, including information on the position of police lines.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/479128...te-tbb.htm

[David Guyatt]

Turkey Protests: Government Targets Doctors Who Treated Injured Demonstrators


By Timur Moon: Subscribe to Timur's RSS feed | June 15, 2013 12:55 PM GMT



An estimated 7,500 people have been injured in the unrest, with the majority requiring treatment for tear gas exposure


Doctors who treated protesters wounded in clashes with riot police in Turkey are to be investigated by the government in a move likely to inflame tensions further.
The Health Ministry had demanded a list of the names of all doctors who treated demonstrators from the Turkish Medical Association (TBB), the association said on Friday 14 June.
The TBB estimates that 7,500 people have been injured in the unrest, the overwhelming number suffering from teargas exposure.
The association said it was ordered to "immediately" give up the names of medical workers and their patients, but had vowed not to co-operate.

The authorities also signalled they would take steps to close down media outlets that broadcast images of demonstrations last week."We were notified that an investigation has been launched into the improvised clinics that treated the protesters," said Osman Öztürk of the TBB.
Turkey's state television regulator shut down one channel that offered continuous live coverage of the protests. Hayat TV went off air "for broadcasting from abroad without a licence", the Radio and Television Supreme Council said.
On Tuesday, the regulator fined Hayat TV and three stations that ran extensive coverage of the protests for "encouraging people to violence".
On Friday night, the BBC suspended its partnership with NTV after the private channel refused to air the Turkish version of the World Agenda programme.
However, the government was forced to back down on plans to redevelop Gezi park in Istanbul, which sparked the protests last month. Police were criticised for the heavy-handedness of their response to the initial protests.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister, agreed to abide by a court decision on his plan to uproot Gezi Park. He said he would hold a referendum if the court rules in favour of it.
"If judiciary in the end allows the project we'll still apply the public vote," he said. "It won't be a military barracks but a city museum - 80% of trees will be within the city museum, the rest will be planted around the complex."
Taksim Solidarity, one group representing the protesters, hailed the move as "positive".
The government also turned its sights on Twitter, demanding the company set up a local division as "they receive advertising revenue without paying a penny in tax".
Police have arrested a number of people who are accused of stirring up protests by posting messages on the site, including information on the position of police lines.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/479128...te-tbb.htm

Erdogan really is a piece of work isn't he.

[Peter Lemkin]

Turkey Protests: Government Targets Doctors Who Treated Injured Demonstrators

Shades of Bahrain! Whatever a doctors own personal beliefs may be, they are trained and take an oath to treat anyone injured - no matter what their views - only according to their need. Politicians just don't get it, do they..for them all is a chess game, and all are expendable players on the 'board'.

[Jan Klimkowski]

The authorities also signalled they would take steps to close down media outlets that broadcast images of demonstrations last week."We were notified that an investigation has been launched into the improvised clinics that treated the protesters," said Osman Öztürk of the TBB.
Turkey's state television regulator shut down one channel that offered continuous live coverage of the protests. Hayat TV went off air "for broadcasting from abroad without a licence", the Radio and Television Supreme Council said.
On Tuesday, the regulator fined Hayat TV and three stations that ran extensive coverage of the protests for "encouraging people to violence".

Erdogan: you are a breaking news channel.

If people are disagreeing with me, you must show footage of Erdogan the Dear Leader, the Dear Supreme Leader, being worshipped by his people.

If you do not have this footage to hand, you must show something useful, like how to cook dolmades iike my Dear Mother used to.

What don't you understand about being a breaking news channel?

:director::director::director:

[Keith Millea]

06.18.13 - 2:17 PM

Standing Is Not A Crime

by Abby Zimet




Testimony to the power of one: Turkish performance artist Erdem Gunduz - who very soon became, on social media, Standing Man - stood silently for eight hours in Istanbul's Taksim Square, facing a portrait of secular Turkey's founder Kemal Ataturk, to protest violent repression by police. He was soon joined by hundreds of others, some of whom police eventually arrested. By then, Gunduz was gone. He had explained, "I'm nothing...The idea is important: why people resist the government."

"Standing does not constitute a crime by any means...Humanity cannot find a more democratic type of protest." - Union of Turkish Bar Association head Metin FeyzioÄŸlu

http://www.commondreams.org/further/2013/06/18-5

[Magda Hassan]

ErdoÄŸan's chief adviser knows what's behind Turkey's protests telekinesis

From Lufthansa to the CIA, Turkey's government has come up with some worrying conspiracy theories to explain Gezi Park

• • Fiachra Gibbons
    
  • guardian.co.uk, Saturday 13 July 2013 21.00 AEST
    

The Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. His new chief adviser, Yiğit Bulut, said: 'There is work going on … to kill Erdoğan from afar through methods like telekinesis.' Photograph: Adem Altan/AFP/Getty Images

It has to be said that when the Turkish government began to flail around for the "real reasons" behind the Gezi protests, their initial conspiracy theories lacked imagination the CIA, Europeans jealous of their economic success, unspecified foreign forces in cahoots with terrorists, Twitter, the "interest rate lobby", and, of course, the international Jewish conspiracy. What would a search for a scapegoat be in Turkey (or indeed Greece) without our old friends the Elders of Zion?
Since it was obviously inconceivable that the Turkish people themselves knowing they were living through a golden age of good governance, piety and profit would ever take to the streets, there must have been a plot.
Well now we have the answer it was all a giant telekinetic attack by dark forces to discredit Prime Minister Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan, because he had made Turkey a "model for the world". Quite rightly, the man who made this astonishing discovery, YiÄŸit Bulut, has just been made ErdoÄŸan's chief adviser. No, this is not a joke. Telekinesis, you may have noticed, is a Greek word.
Ministers, and the majority of Turkey's media, have been outdoing each other for the last month with outrageous theories and often outright lies to mask ErdoÄŸan's staggering mishandling of a minor planning dispute over an Istanbul park that brought millions on to the streets in protest at his authoritarian style and police violence against demonstrators.
His ruling AK party has variously claimed that the Gezi protests were the work of CNN or the BBC and even Reuters (after one of the agency's reporters asked ErdoÄŸan an "unapproved question"). In one faked newspaper interview, CNN's Christiane Amanpour "confessed" to starting the protests "for money". Fingers were also pointed at leading liberal journalists, some of whom have since been sacked by media owners afraid of incurring further government wrath (Turkey is already the world's No 1 jailer of journalists).
More shocking even than the smearing of those killed by police is that ErdoÄŸan's AK party once a slick media machine can still not put a consistent conspiracy story together. It has to be said that Egypt's military coup has not helped the mood of Turkish Islamists or that in a self-fulfilling prophecy amid so much nuttiness, Turkish bond rates have near doubled in as many months.
What all the many theories lacked apart from facts, which would "be shortly announced" but never were was a protean element: something that would lift the whole puzzling debacle of ErdoÄŸan thrashing his own and his country's reputation over a scraggy patch of grass out of the rational altogether and into another dimension.
Step forward Bulut TV presenter, commentator, and climber of many greasy poles who until Gezi was best known for his inordinate use of hair oil. Having got his astral ball rolling by declaring that the protests were paid for by the German airline Lufthansa, afraid that "100 million passengers would be diverted from Germany to Turkey" by a controversial monster airport ErdoÄŸan wants to build near Istanbul, Bulut then took flight.
Turkey's enemies, he claimed, were planning to assassinate ErdoÄŸan by telekinesis. "There is work going on in many centres in the world to kill ErdoÄŸan from afar through methods like telekinesis," Bulut told TV viewers last month. This week Bulut became ErdoÄŸan's official eminence grise.
Utterly mad it may sound, but there may be method to it a message to diehard religious supporters that ErdoÄŸan's erratic, confrontational behaviour may be because he is engaged in a life-or-death struggle behind the scenes.
Should Turks be worried? They should if this offers a glimpse of Erdoğan's own state of mind. At a mass rally in Istanbul at the height of the protests, he compared himself to Adnan Menderes, the first elected Turkish leader who was hung by the military on a short rope on the prison island where the PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan is now held.
Since then, rather than building bridges, ErdoÄŸan has been busy tightening his grip and settling scores the latest being robbing engineers and architects who so irritated him over Gezi Park of their overseeing role in planning.
Yet in reality the greatest danger to Erdoğan has always been Erdoğan himself and the company he keeps from his property tycoon son-in-law to his old Kasimpaşa pals who go everywhere with him and once locked him inside his armoured Mercedes outside a hospital when he passed out during Ramadan. Only five years ago his new chief adviser was attacking him and his party as a "fascist" threat to Atatürk's secular republic. As a hopeless nostalgic for the Ottoman empire, Erdoğan might be wise to remember that far more sultans died at the hands of their retainers than ever did in battle.