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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22744728
Turkey protests: Third day of anti-government unrest
Tens of thousands of people have staged a third day of protests in Turkish towns and cities.
Protesters erected barricades near the prime minister's office in Istanbul's Besiktas district, and police responded with water cannon and tear gas.
The protests were sparked by plans to build on an Istanbul park but have broadened into anti-government unrest across the country.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the protesters are undemocratic.
He has accused opposition parties of provoking the demonstrations, which represents the most sustained anti-government unrest for a number of years.
Interior Minister Muammer Guler told state media more than 1,700 people had been arrested during protests in 67 cities, though many had since been released
Hundreds of people are reported to have been injured in the clashes.
Barricades
Protests over the demolition of Gezi Park to make way for the rebuilding of an Ottoman era barracks, reportedly to house a shopping centre, began on a small scale earlier this week.
Protesters said the park was one of the few green spaces in Istanbul, and were angry at the loss of public space for commercial purposes.
But after police used tear gas and water cannon were used to break up the protests, triggering accusations of excessive force, the numbers in Taksim Square, next to the park, rocketed.
Ten of thousands of people took to the streets of towns and cities, many calling on the government to resign.
Police pulled out on Saturday afternoon, reportedly after President Abdullah Gul urged restraint, and by Sunday there was a carnival atmosphere.
But clashes continued, including in the Besiktas district, where police fired tear gas against protesters, some of whom built barricades or threw stones at Mr Erdogan's Istanbul office.
In Ankara, police fired tear gas at thousands of protesters who were attempting to march on the prime minister's office there.
There were further reports of tear gas in Izmir, on the Aegean coast, and in Adana in the south.
'A few looters'
Last week the government quickly passed legislation curbing the sale and advertising of alcoholic drinks, which analysts say alarmed secularists.
Many felt insulted when he defended the legislation by calling people who drink "alcoholics".
In a televised interview on Sunday, Mr Erdogan, in power since 2002, denied accusations of being a dictator, saying he was "a servant of the people".
He said the protests were being provoked by the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), and that those taking part were trying to undermine democracy, dismissing them as "a few looters".
Mr Erdogan also criticised social media, through which the protests have been co-ordinated and discussed, calling Twitter a "curse" and an "extreme version of lying".
The crackdown has been condemned by rights groups and by the US.
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I've seen the communication on FB and Twitter and Live Leak has quite a few videos of police action. Maybe overshadowed by Oklahoma twisters.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2b8_1370213642
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I've seen the communication on FB and Twitter and Live Leak has quite a few videos of police action. Maybe overshadowed by Oklahoma twisters.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2b8_1370213642
No way man. This is too big. They're doing that shit on purpose. Just like how they didn't show the rioting in Greece.
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No way man. This is too big. They're doing that shit on purpose. Just like how they didn't show the rioting in Greece.
Typical US media, rest of the world don't exist & this is very big mistake or the US government don't want Americans to
do something similar.
Just ask yourself how many Americans watch foreign news or foreign movies ?.
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No way man. This is too big. They're doing that shit on purpose. Just like how they didn't show the rioting in Greece.
Maybe they are worried this will soon take place at all IRS offices! More coming out on that!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2334736/IRS-employee-congressional-interviews-tea-party-targeting-Washington-DC-wanted-cases---I-sent-seven.html
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I live in south europe and this news are like "same shit different day".
Turkey wanted to make part of the european community but stunts like this just make them more arab than anything else. This are good news.
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Typical US media, rest of the world don't exist & this is very big mistake or the US government don't want Americans to
do something similar.
Just ask yourself how many Americans watch foreign news or foreign movies ?.
I get 95% of my news from BBC and I'm American.
What's your thought on the angle of this Wiggs? I have a buddy whose wife is turkish(parents born there) and she is in DC now with a sign supporting Taksim. She is there with other protesters, so someone in America is seeing this.
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No way man. This is too big. They're doing that shit on purpose. Just like how they didn't show the rioting in Greece.
or the March against monsanto
.........58 billion $$$ company
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or the March against monsanto
Ooooooooh yeah! What a fucking farce that was. I went to the one here in Vegas. we had over 2,000 people show up. NO LOCAL News. This event happened in 52 countries and the U.S. mainstream media barely touched it.
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Ooooooooh yeah! What a fucking farce that was. I went to the one here in Vegas. we had over 2,000 people show up. NO LOCAL News. This event happened in 52 countries and the U.S. mainstream media barely touched it.
Do you think television stations are going to run a story that may jeopardize their revenue stream
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Do you think television stations are going to run a story that may jeopardize their revenue stream
No. That's why their being called out on it.
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and its is covered on the mainstream american media you dumb ox, it was on cnn,seen with my own eyes ::)
It certainly is being covered, as I just saw it mentioned on Bloomberg TV, Reuters, MSNBC and CNN. It was even on the news ticker of the New York Stock Exchange.
Here is a link/screen cap from CNN, NBC & CBS:
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/?hpt=sitenav (http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/?hpt=sitenav)
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/03/18717363-riots-are-making-turkey-too-dangerous-says-war-torn-syria?lite (http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/03/18717363-riots-are-making-turkey-too-dangerous-says-war-torn-syria?lite)
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57587307/turkey-pm-erdogan-lashes-out-over-protests-asks-what-is-the-message/ (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57587307/turkey-pm-erdogan-lashes-out-over-protests-asks-what-is-the-message/)
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oh wiggs how much do you know about the protests.
or turkey.
and its is covered on the mainstream american media you dumb ox, it was on cnn,seen with my own eyes ::)
Leave my thread queer. I'm not talking about drugs or transsexuals.
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Been nicely covered for the last few weeks, brohammed. ???
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Because there is no oil in Turkey ???
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hahahah epic post fail, you repeated some garbage you heard from some false flag nut case without checking facts
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Turkey can sort itself out. Average American doesn't care anyhow.
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This shit has been all over tv, internet, and papers for a couple of days now. WTF are you talking about? Not being covered? ???
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hahahah epic post fail, you repeated some garbage you heard from some false flag nut case without checking facts
Then tell us about those 'facts', you smart fuck ::)
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Because it is the secular crowd protesting against the conservative, Islamist government. If it were the other way around, it'd be plastered all over the news with Obama pledging complete and unflagging support.
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because most americans don't know what turkey is
except the one on their dinner table
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Then tell us about those 'facts', you smart fuck ::)
simple fact as shown above, the media is covering it!
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simple fact as shown above, the media is covering it!
Read the title of this thread again, is the BBC from the US? ::)
The coverage from CNN and others are pretty limited
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Wolf Blitzer sucks muslim cock......
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most of the people involved don't even lift
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Brain dead idiots not realizing this is an engineered plot to lure Turkey into the regional conflict and start world war 3. People don't follow events except 24 hour reporting of propaganda media don't they?
Turkey was a staunch and oppressive secular military dictatorship. It was finally overturned and all the military was sacked and it is a Muslim party that rules now for that 90%+ Muslim population. That being said, the secularists don't like it, so they are using a stupid park protest as an excuse to start an all out chaos in the country. Parties of interest are ganging in on the action and it's being turned into another 'them islamists' event by the western media.
The point? Destroy yet another developed Muslim country and involve it in the regional conflict, make chaos, make everything unstable, give Israel a helping hand, Israel is blood thirsty to get into Iran, Syria, Turkey, etc...
Saudi Arabia is the last target.
People just don't realize what's going on. An engineered world war that is using Muslims as a scapegoat and dumb media spoon fed Americans/westerners are not realizing what's been spoon fed to them day and night.
By proxy, by direct military intervention, by political stunts, by social media, by puppet governments, all at once.
Old colonialism didn't quite work, this new method... for now, is faring well, but will not fare well in the long run either. People can only be dumb for so long.
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People just don't realize what's going on. An engineered world war that is using Muslims as a scapegoat and dumb media spoon fed Americans/westerners are not realizing what's been spoon fed to them day and night.
I don't disagree that people (from all points of the compass) are being spoon-fed thoughts. Not will I dispute that Americans especially are spoon-fed more than most and ask for more.
But at least there's one saving grace... And it's luminaries like you. People who see what's happening and who, at great personal cost, seek to use their superior intellect and nuanced understanding of the issue to lift the veil that obscures our vision. The few who seek to educate the rest of us by providing us facts and well-formulated rational arguments.
Oh wait...
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Hey, Ahmedi why then do you live in the West (probably Germany) ::), and I was right that you a Turk ;D
Remember also, that Angela Merkele told Turks to fuck off from European Union membership.
How about posting images of females Turkish bodybuilders ;)
Oh please don't tell me there is NO muscular females in "modern & advanced" Turkey :P