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Why “Freedom for Taksim Prisoners Campaign”

 
The state, attacking with police, teargas and bulldozers to the protesters in Taksim-Istanbul at dawn of 31st May and 1st June, did not calculate that the spark of actions looked-like a routine would burn the entire country with the fire of freedom. Unyielding response to the attacks on the tents has played a lightening role that forced people to resist and enlightened the path. 
 

Together with the cosiness of being able to create a people that has been poisoned with racist and chauvinistic sentiments and whose eyes are closed for the truth for more than 30 years, the state, such that, have put thousands of intellectuals, progressives and journalists into prisons through repressive laws on the freedom of expression, assembly and association. Through sanctioning, reactionary and forceful approach, the state has otherised and counted as not existed the Alewites, Kurds, socialists, LGBT people, Armenians, in short every beliefs and minorities living in Turkey.    

 

The people accumulating anger towards AKP’s monist, racist, reactionary repression and practices have occupied the squares and streets in revolt to government’s decision to destroy Gezi Park in Taksim Square and build a shopping mall. The helpless Erdogan government have once again proved its dictatorship by using every kind of violence methods.

   

Until now five people have been killed in this process which begun with Gezi Park but later turned into a people’s revolt. The state turning whole country into an open gas chamber has carried torture –a crime against humanity- into the streets. Despite the exposure, the killer of Ethem Sarisuluk, who was killed by a bullet on the head in Ankara, has been awarded by the state. The state still continues to try to cover up its helplessness in the face of demands of millions, who brought down the wall of fear and violence, by attacking tens of revolutionary, progressive and socialist people and organisations, and by arresting and imprisoning them. Turning whole country into a hell through police violence, AKP is increasing the dose of the offensive and violence in cosiness of silencing bourgeois media.

   

In order to get the revenge of Taksim, AKP has attacked many institutions such as ESP (Socialist Party of the Oppressed), Atilim Newspaper, Ozgur Radio, Etkin News Agency, SGD (Socialist Youth Associations), SDP (Socialist Democracy Party) and Halkevleri, and imprisoned dozens of people. They have entered the party buildings, newspaper offices and radios by breaking their doors, and their whole technical equipments are seized or destroyed. The conscience of millions of people who did not bow their head to the AKP’s cruelty, the socialist press and the Socialist Party of the Oppressed will not be silenced. Erdogan, who considers and names everyone and every organisation and institution opposing his system as marginal and terrorist, and his police have forcefully detained socialists. However, the attitude of the state on the people’s uprising since the 31st of May cannot be accepted.

 

We are therefore starting this campaign to support and be in solidarity with the people and organisations who have been subjected to unjust and unlawful implementations by the state. Our aim is to expose the repression and violence of the Turkish state on the people’s movement and increase international solidarity with the Taksim resistance. The freedom of thought, expression, assembly and association of millions must be respected. It is a right to resist cruelty and repression. The state terror and violence against the people resisting for their democratic demands must be ended. All Taksim prisoners must be released immediately.   

 

Taksim Uprising and the Truth

The reaction against the uprooting of trees at Gezi Park in Taksim square on 31 May has spread to Turkey and the world over, and has been recorded to the history as Taksim resistance. Together with the Taksim resistance, the people have shown their anger over implementations that interfere with their life style, standardisation and limiting social and political freedoms through a magnificent people’s uprising that spread to 76 cities.

 

Hundreds thousands, who fill out the Taksim Square for days and freed the streets, have also stated they will not be silenced and intimidated by a regime that bans everything, and by the AKP that attacks their life style, beliefs and ethnic identities, women’s and young people’s way of life. Millions of people, who had been divided as Alewite and Sunni, Kurdish and Turkish, homosexual, Armenian and Greek, suddenly realised that they had been deceived and built the bridge of fraternalism. 

 

The destruction of Gezi Park, the plans to turn Ataturk Culture Centre into a shopping mall to make profit and the plans to name 3rd bridge in Istanbul as Yavuz Selim (a sultan in Ottoman era), known by his massacres against Alewite people in history became the starting point of the Taksim resistance that begun on 31st May and still continues in different forms. Until today, however, the AKP and Erdogan’s attempts to divide all society as Alewite-Sunni, rich-poor, discriminating the ones drink alcohol, otherisation of people because of their dress or life style, or for their sexual preference have caused anger and reaction within all social strata. The AKP government and Erdogan, who attacked mercilessly the most fundamental democratic rights, have continued to offend by describing the workers and labourers organising actions as “ragamuffins, foots becoming the head”, the socialists, democratic parties and institutions as “terrorists and provocateurs”, and everyone who look for their rights as “foreign forces”. Tayyip Erdogan, who also called “the looters, provocateurs, rent lobbyists, internal and foreign powers and marginal”  to millions of people who took to the street during Taksim resistance, insist on aggression by closing his ears and eyes even to the smallest democratic rights and demands. But the resisters, who brought to nothing all these insults and attacks by the regime and prime minister, have won the struggle against destruction of Gezi Park.

 

Erdogan, who continues with EU membership process by saying “zero tolerance” to torture, was claiming that the country had made big step forward in democratisation. And the European states and public opinion were extending their support to Prime Minister of Turkey and the state by giving importance to the process. But now the world public opinion closely observing that the regime in Turkey has not taken any steps in democratisation, the torture, massacre, detention terror and all kind of fascistic attacks against the one who does not support the regime do continue with maximum speed. The AKP tries to drop from the agenda the massacre of Reyhanli, while not even a year passed since the massacre in Roboski. 

 

This is why the Taksim resistance is important because it has also shattered the image of “democratic country and Prime Minister”. The use of plastic bullets against hundreds of thousands with an aggression that has not been seen in other countries of the world, the number of water cannons and gas bombs that were used and which can be considered as world record, putting in place the fascist gangs armed with choppers and broadaxes, the brutal practices by the police on the arrested people and many other attacks have once more shown Erdogan’s dictator face. 

 

Even the MPs were injured and taken to hospitals because of gas and police violence. BDP MP Sırrı Süreyya Önder, and MPs from CHP are among them.

 

About 10 thousand people are wounded because of police violence. According to the statement made by Turkish Doctors Union, 5 people are killed due to police shooting, beating or extensive gas use and about 100 people are heavily wounded. The police officer who shot dead Ethem Sarısülük has already been freed. Tayyip Erdogan is still continuing to encourage them by thanking them in his Parliament speeches.

 

The police attacks did not happen only at the demonstrations. They even continued under detention in a way such as sexual abuse and rape threats against women. 7 women, who were taken into custody in Istanbul on 31st May, subjected to arbitrary and fully unlawful “naked” search. Women in Izmir Sakran prison announced they were subjected to naked search too. In Ankara, a woman named Eylem has bravely shared with everyone that she suffered from sexual violence both during detention and when she was kept in armoured vehicle for 3 hours. D.E., who was arrested during demonstrations in Ankara-Kizilay, has explained about the sexual abuse to a journalist and said “There is a difference between violence against men and women. Women suffer from double attack because we are attacked physically and sexually. And we suffer violence over violence”. Deniz explained her experience on 16 June via facebook and listed the “insults” that she heard: “Prostitute, terrorist, fickle, traitor...” She was also threatened with rape. 

 

ETHA and ANF journalist Arzu Demir and ETHA News Editor Deya Okatan stated that they were subjected to naked search by the police during the raid to the agency and house on 18 June. Almost all the women who were taken to custody had been threatened with rape. All these striking similarities of what has happened are the clear evidence of systematic sexual abuse and attack against women and LGBT people.

 

Doubtlessly the state terror during Taksim uprising was not limited with the physical and psychological violence and repression. Both during resistance and after the resistance, hundreds of people have been sent to prisons by the orders of Tayyip Erdogan. The Socialist Party of the Oppressed is one of the targets announced as “illegal” by the Prime Minister. Following the detention terror against ESP, Etkin News Agency, Ozgur Radio and SDP on 18 June, about hundred socialists are sent into prison. 

 

These parties and press institutions, which show an oppositional stance on the AKP and Erdogan’s policies, once more -as always- came face to face with the repression and threats of hegemonic state regime. Turkey has been considered as a democratic country, but the deceptiveness of this situation comes to surface when we consider what has happened in Taksim in particular, the existence of more than 10 thousand political prisoners, the massacres in Roboski and Reyhanli, disappearances under police custody, torture, all prohibitions and targeting of everyone as marginal, terrorist or provocateur.

 

In this context, while AKP and Erdogan still ignore the national demands of the Kurdish people even today without any tolerance, they continue to lie to the world and international community with “negotiation” shiftiness. In a period where the Kurdish movement acts in a responsible manner in the peace process, AKP, the real creator of provocations, caused the death of a person by shooting people who were showing their anger over construction of army station in Lice.

 

Today in Turkey, the freedom of expression and protest have been extorted. All kind of demonstrations are being interfered with police violence. Can we call “democratic” to a power and state administration that attacks with teargas even to the demonstrations organised by BDP (Peace and Democracy Party), who has got a group in Parliament? In this sense, it is justified and legitimate to support all struggles given for democratic rights and freedoms. Is it not the ongoing support of the EU and US that encourages the AKP and Erdogan to commit relentless crime against people? And haven’t what happened very recently in Turkey has shown clearly how deceptive is the “democratic” image shown to the European people? It is therefore a duty and responsibility to inform the world public opinion, explain the truths and increase solidarity with Taksim resisters against AKP and Erdogan’s aggressive policies.

 

According to the data from Medical Associations and Doctors;

  • Between 31 May and 27 June, in total 8041 wounded people recorded in 13 cities because of the police terror.

The content of wounds are skin burning, breathing problem, asthma crisis, epilepsy attacks; injuries of muscle-skeleton system because of teargas capsules, plastic bullets and beating (tissue damage, cuts, burnings, open-close broken bones), head traumas, sight problems due to plastic bullets and internal organ injuries...

 

  • 5 people have lost their life

Mehmet Ayvalıtaş, aged 21, died after being crashed by a car which was intentionally driven into a crowd in Ümraniye, İstanbul, on June 2nd, 2013. 

During the demonstrations held in Hatay on June, 3rd 2013, Abdullah Cömert, aged 22, lost his life. The autopsy report revealed that Abdullah Cömert died after receiving two blows in the head.

Mehmet Sarı, a police officer, felt down from a bridge and lost his life while running after protestors in Adana on June 5th, 2013. 

As the camera footages show, Ethem Sarısülük (26) was wounded heavily on the head by a bullet allegedly from police gun during the demonstrations held in Ankara on June 1st, 2013. The autopsy report revealed that he was killed by being shot in the head by a police officer

Ali İsmail Korkmaz (aged 19) lost his life on 10 July 2013 due to head and brain injuries.

  • There are 60 seriously wounded people. A seriously wounded person in Istanbul is still in life threatening condition. 103 people suffered from head trauma. 11 people have lost their sight. One person’s spleen removed.

  • Irfan Tuna, who was working as a cleaner in a training centre near to Kizilay Square in Ankara, became ill following teargas attack against protesters by the police and lost his life in the hospital because of heart attack. A report by forensic medicine is going to confirm whether teargas was the cause of his death.

  • On June the 2nd, the police interfered with teargas to the people in the Civil Service Union and Nazim Hikmet Culture Centre, used as infirmary, when there were injured people and doctors.

  • Around 03:00 on 12 June, 5 teargases were thrown to the infirmary in Taksim Gezi Park when there was lots of wounded during police clampdown. An attack with teargas took place on 22 June in TMMOB infirmary.

 

Statements from Parties, Press Agencies and Organisations Subjected to State Terror

 

Socailist Party of the Oppressed (ESP): AKP started a revenge attack. After the people’s uprising, which started at Taksim Gezi Park but later spread all over Turkey, the humans are being hunted by the direct orders of the Prime Minister. Following detentions in Taksim and surrounding areas, the police carried out raids in our district offices, our member and officials’ houses; the oppositional journalists’ houses are also being raided.

 

All detentions represent the confirmation of AKP’s defeat in the face of people’s uprising. Not being able to repress the uprising for honour that started by the people for freedom and democracy, the state now try to get revenge by attacking socialists and revolutionaries. Our party has subjected to police conspiracies and raids before as well. 

Arzu Demir, an official from Etkin News Agency (ETHA): Taksim was forbidden to people since the 1st of May. The people flout the ban with the resistance. And ETHA is now being targeted also because of continuously covering these issues.

 

Lawyer Gulizar Tuncer: Since the 1st of May, Taksim was forbidden for the labourers and the people have been attacked mercilessly during the Gezi Park actions by the direct orders of the Prime Minister himself. Hundreds of people are wounded, deaths occurred and the attacks are still continuing. In this process many revolutionaries have been imprisoned while many offices and houses of institutions such as ETHA, Atilim, Ozgur Radio are raided by direct orders from the Prime Minister.  

 

Derya Okata, ETHA’s News Editor: AKP raided the district offices of ESP, the Gunes Agency, which does the technical work for ETHA and Atilim Newspaper, Ozgur Radio and houses of their workers under the name of “MLCP operation” in order to get revenge of the Taksim resistance. 68 people have been arrested during the raids, and two of them, who were wounded before, released later. We suffered from police threats and insults. Me and Arzu Demir was subjected to torture of naked search. While all our equipments were destroyed, they have seized hard disks, voicw recording devices, journalist cards, helmets, gas masks, credit cards, valets, official documents and notebooks. And even they have seized the apron of the kitchen worker by saying that it is a crime element.

 

Nadiye Gurbuz, Chief Coordinator of Ozgur Radio: Since 1995, we have been following a line that is on the side of people and the oppressed. We continued to let people know what is happening during the Gezi Park actions and this why we are being targeted. We condemn the attack. 

 

Federation of Socialist Youth Associations Central Executive Board: All your attacks and conspiracies are going to be in vain in the face of the people’s power. We are going to be stronger and more organised every passing day.

 

Solidarity Statements for the Institutions Subjected to State Terror

 

Democratic Society Congress: We consider the attack against ESP as the attack against all forces of democracy. We condemn the AKP government’s approach and demand an end to the police violence, wave of detentions, and immediate release of all detainees. We, once more, greet the Gezi resistance, a great step forward for socialisation of democracy.

 

Progressive Lawyers Association (CHD): The government’s response to Gezi protests all across the country, spread with a demand of “freedom”, where it has increased its dose of oppression policies, has also been targeting the media institutions. Throughout the Gezi protests, press labourers have been violently beaten by the police, where a terror of “yellow press card” took hold. A minimum of eight journalists have been taken under custody, and beyond that, they were exposed to police violence. Legal parties and institutions that participated in the protests from the beginning are presented as “illegal,” so as to spread a lie and influence the public opinion. The final stage of these vain attempts is the custody faced by the employees of Özgür Radio, Etkin News Agency and daily Atılım. As a part of this, General Editorial Coordinator Sedat Şenoğlu of the daily Atılım, Selvi Coşar of Özgür Radio were taken under custody by having their residences raided.

 

Peoples’ Democratic Congress (HDK): These raids and detentions represent “revenge” operations. Stop detentions and revenge operations. End your attempts to create internal enemy. You cannot make people to give up their just demands through repression, violence and imprisonments. Give up your dyspeptic stance before the resistance, which occurred when you entered into the park with bulldozers. You are planting new trees and flowers into the Gezi Park after bloodthirstily attacking the people. You are trying to cover up the atrocity. All these developments show how right we are and how our demands are legitimate.   

 

Human Rights Association (IHD): The political power is legitimising the torture and maltreatment by the discourse of “I will not blame my police”. The discourse must be abandoned and an active investigation and interrogation against the police officers using violence and their chiefs started immediately by abandoning impunity.

 

Statements from International Organisations

 

Amnesty International: Police in Turkey are refusing to acknowledge that they have people in custody following mass detentions carried out during the night in Istanbul, Following a night of shocking police violence, the authorities are now denying due process to those they have detained. The police must release them immediately or disclose their location and allow access to family members and lawyers.

 

Reporters Without Borders: We deplore the continuing abuses by police, who are still using teargas, water cannon and rubber bullets, still insulting and beating and journalists and still sometimes forcing them to delete their photos and video footage.

 

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay: We are concerned over clashes between Turkish police and demonstrators. We call for the punishment of officials and security forces using excessive force. 

 

The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ): We condemn the continuous targeting of journalists and media organisations following the police raid on the residences of journalists working for the daily newspaper Atilim, Özgür Radio and Etkin News Agency on Tuesday 18 June.

 

The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC):  The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) is deeply concerned at threats by the Turkish authorities 'to repress' strikes and peaceful demonstrations called for by Turkish trade union organisations. The increasingly authoritarian response by the Turkish government against people's legitimate grievances is a cause for deep concern.

 

From the letter written to David Cameron by National Union of Journalists (NUJ): We urge from you to contact Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and stress the need to respect the right of journalists to freedom of expression guaranteed by European and International law. Article 26 and Article 34 of the Turkish Constitution also guarantees the citizen's rights to freedom of expression and peaceful demonstration. The Turkish government is also bound by its international obligations such as the European Convention on Human Rights (Article 10 on freedom of expression and Article 11 on freedom of assembly) and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 19 on freedom of expression and Article 20 on freedom of assembly).

 

National Lawyers Guild (NLG): We call on the Turkish government to stop all police aggression against Turkey's protesters and to launch an immediate investigation into police violence and for justice and accountability for the dead, injured and detained. The NLG condemns the illegal, excessive and brutal police violence against Turkey's peaceful protestors. We call on the Turkish government to stop ll police aggression against Turkey's protesters and to launch an immediate investigation into police violence.  We call for justice and accountability for dead, injured and detained civilians who have experienced violence at the hands of the police.

 

EU foreign policy supremo Catherine Ashton: We are deeply concerned at the violence that occurred in Istanbul and some other cities in Turkey, and regret disproportionate use of force by members of the Turkish police.

 

Letters from Prisoners and Families

 

Yoldaş Aydın - a student at Middle East Technical University and released on bail 19 July 2013

“Hi, I’m one of the 22 people who got imprisoned by a trial without law in Ankara. Today is the 5th day of our imprisonment and we only attained ‘to possess pen and paper right’ today. I guess it will take 8-9 days for this letter to reach you. Communication is an issue on its own in here. This is ironic; because while I’m writing this letter I can hear voices from next cell saying: ‘Our right to defend cannot be obstructed’...

 

We are having difficulties to make our voices heard by you but your voices and hearts are with us. We have heard that committees are being established in neighbourhoods. Despite media trying to hide it from people, we heard that protests are continuing with gaining quality. We also heard got very excited about the forums (takes place in ODTU a lot of times) and Standing man/woman protests. I guess that the state will try to deflect this standing protest or they will declare these protests illegal too in a week time. 

 

I’m aware that I didn’t say anything about us. But the only reason is not the way I express myself or my jokes. Thusly: we still don’t know what we are accused by. Actually we do. Typical ‘marginal’ accusations... But for example; they couldn’t tell why they have accused not anyone but us by these accusations.

 

Then we thought: ‘We definitely have something. Otherwise why would they arrest us within so many people?’ Then we turned to each other and asked ‘What is our common features?’. We asked everyone and we haven’t got any ‘soldier of Mustafa Kemal within us. Many of us are sympathisers of CARSI, sensitive about oppressed identities. But we only found one main common feature in 22 of us. We all are socialists. Then we understood why we have got arrested when we look at this common feature we have. ‘Ohh’, ’It’s that issue again’...

 

AKP is trying to create pressure on how 22 socialists organised the Gezi Park struggle in Ankara. I aspire to be it like that with my heart and soul.

 

Let me try to sum it up now. Joking aside none of the friends, comrades in here have doubts about the legitimacy of their actions. Justice and social legitimacy can clash sometimes. It’s normal, because we place a justice which bases human into the base of society not a justice which bases possession. Our social legitimacy, belief is accurate. Rest is not that important, continue to struggle...”

 

Çiğdem Korkut, mother of a prisoner

“I don’t know if you have slept at night or not…Cold face of the state came to our home and took Caglar away yesterday. I don’t how do they treat him, if Caglar throw off his astonishment. I still have tens of questions that I don’t have an answer for it. What have my son did different from the hundreds of thousands people who got the streets to protest?

 

I myself have been to streets so many times, like everyone who showed social sensitivity in this country. How can I not take place while everybody is in streets? How can I possibly ask Caglar to stay at home? How could I explain democracy, freedom, to my son if I didn’t let my son to go to protests?

 

I feel sorry, for lovely people who have been arrested with my son. My heart hurts not only for my son and people who has been imprisoned but mostly for the situation that my country came to. People who don’t care about anyone else’s but only their future and their fortune have founded their escape by arresting these young people.

 

This hurts my heart the most as a mother...”

 

Letter from prisoners of Izmir Gezi resistance

“Nobody should blame us!

We are applauding...

There are people among us who are whistling in joy...

We are smiling, in fact grinning...

We are clapping for homicide of law

Our whistling is for the court who decided for our imprisonment

We are smiling at to accusations and evidences

We are laughing at to the government which wants our imprisonment and to the palsy situation they got in with Gezi Park protests,

We got arrested on 20th of June, being imprisoned from 23rd of June. We are in an unknown process.

We have been taken from different places: some of us from our houses, some of us from resistance area, some of us from other cities next to our family. All of us are being tried for ‘being a member of a terrorist organisation and provoke people’. ‘Apparently we have vandalized roads and streets of Izmir, opposed the police orders, damaged public domain’

We had attended commemoration of revolutionary leaders, Mayday demonstrations. That is to say that even the documents are there: Unspecified couple of photos.

Some of us are married and have kids. Some of us are workers, some of us are students and some of us are on the verge of getting engaged...
Some of us have put in order our lives, some of us in rush to build it...
Putting our differences to a side, we all have one common side which is our imprisonment because of Gezi Resistance...


It’s our hearts which beat for labour, democracy and freedom that makes us what we are.
Excuse us, we are not ‘marginals’. We are the children of honourable people who take streets, who organise creative actions, slogans and resist against cruelty. We are a part of ‘marginal’ millions, a wave in that sea.
Yes, we are prisoners now and far away from our school, children, wife and fiancé.

But our hearts are there; on the green earth, under the blue sky...

Our hearts are with the burning roads and streets...

Therefore we are outside. Because we know that Gezi Resistance is ours and we salute that resistance. They are closing the door of our air hall every evening at 8 o’clock. We are opening a new door from our windows to you and to our resistance. Because we all once shout: “Everywhere is Taksim, everywhere is resistance”, and we are turning the prison into Taksim at 9 o’clock every night.

And we know we are not alone, our hearts from Kiriklar and Sakran F-type prisons are with you.

 

From eyewitness reports

 

http://union-news.co.uk

 

A delegation of members from British transport union, RMT

 

“The protest was being attacked with water cannon and tear gas, the water being laced with phosphoric acid in order to blind protesters. We saw old women gasping for air and children running in blind panic. Incredibly the crowd did not respond to this provocation with violence but by singing and chanting, this did not stop the police firing more tear gas and plastic bullets at them.

“The protesters were now being driven from the square by the water cannon into the side streets; many were wearing gas masks and goggles because they had been subject to, previous police attacks. We stood with them in solidarity waving our RMT banner. A few moments later we were targeted by the water cannon sprayed with the solution containing acid and alkaline solutions and towels and who brought us to safety in another street.” ...

 

http://electmartin1.blogspot.co.uk/

 

Martin Powell-Davies of the NUT teachers' union executive

“It was Erdogan's decision to move in police to crush the Gezi Park occupation that made sure that our visit will not be forgotten by any of the delegations. Our hotel, on a side street just a few yards from Taksim Square, turned out to be just on the perimeter of a wall of police, tear gas and water cannon thrown around the square...Police reportedly even chased protesters into the Divan Hotel, firing choking water cannon spray through its doors. ...

Between us and the square stood lines of riot police and a threatening white 'TOMA' vehicle armed with powerful water cannon. It took all of us time to realise that the choking fumes and burning skin were coming from the water from the TOMA. A soaking from this chemical spray left protesters clutching for air and ready to vomit. Crowds parted every now and again to allow the injured to be rushed away...If the British and American governments are really concerned about the use of chemical weaponry, perhaps they could start by pressurising their ally Erdogan to stop using acidic sprays on its people.”
 
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/15/us-turkey-protests-idUSBRE9590QA20130615

 

Claudia Roth, the co-chair of Germany's Greens Party

“We tried to flee and the police pursued us. It was like war, I am a living witness. They fired tear gas without sparing women and children”.

 

http://www.paulmurphymep.eu/eyewitness-report-from-turkey

 

Socialist Party MEP Paul Murphy

 

“Today, with the entire Taksim Square packed an hour after the scheduled time of a major demonstration, people continued to pour in from every street, with some estimating a crowd of up to 300,000.

The response of Prime Minister Erdogan has been brutal. There have been ferocious attacks by the police on protesters, with extensive use of harsh tear gas, burning the tents of those involved in the occupation and undercover police attacking protesters with knives and clubs. According to the most recent estimate of the Turkish Medical Association, over 4,000 were injured, which is likely to understate the reality. Three people have died so far...”

 

List of Taksim Prisoners

Kırıklar 1 Nolu F Tipi Hapishanesi Buca/İzmir

İzzet Uysal

B1-46 Nolu Koğuş

Ozan Adıyaman

B-45 Nolu Koğuş

Ali Hüseyin Ahirci

B1-46 Nolu Koğuş

Vedat Yener

 

İbrahim Kaya

B-45 Nolu Koğuş

Hakan Polat

B1-46 Nolu Koğuş

Erhan İnal

 

Akgün Irgat

B-45 Nolu Koğuş

Çağlar Korkut

 

Cem Barış

 

Çakıl Sait Özdemir

 

Sercan Üstüntaş

 

Süleyman G. Yerdut

 

Mehmet Polat

 

Görkem Özer

 

Barış Bulut

 

Müslüm Güvendir

 

Ali Hizmetçi

 

Emre Kaplan

 

Miraç Vayiç

 

Ulaş Arslan

 

Merhmet B. Yalçın

 

Orhan Yıldız

 

Görüş Atıcı

 

Yasin Sünger

 

Soner İnanç

 

Burcu Koçlu

 

Serdar Gür

 

Mehmet Y. Kızıltaş

 

Erol Özdemir

 

Hüseyin Gülbitti

 

Abdullah Yüksel

 

Şakran Kapalı Kadın Hapishanesi Aliağa/İzmir

Gizem Türkmen

 

Pınar Türk

 

Elif Kaya

 

Esra Ayyıldız

 

Burcu Koçlu

 

Kezban Doğan

 

 

 

İzmir Kırıklar 2 Nolu F Tipi Hapishanesi

Taner Aka

B1.4.46 Nolu Koğuş

Denizcan Aydın

C5 80 Nolu Koğuş

Cihan Ağtaş

C5 80 Nolu Koğuş

Yadigar Vuruşaner

B.1.40 Nolu Koğuş

Ali Yılmaz

B2 5. 63 Nolu Koğuş

Hasan Koç

B1 4. 46 Nolu Koğuş

Yusuf B. Özkan

B1. 4.46 Nolu Koğuş

Birkan Sabaz

B2 5.63 Nolu Koğuş

Mazlum Demir

C5 81 Nolu Koğuş

Mert Atmaca

C5 81 Nolu Koğuş

Can Deliduman

C1 45 Nolu Koğuş

Erdal Kozan

C1 45 Nolu Koğuş

Akın Can

B.1.38 Nolu Koğuş

Osman Nuri Orhan

B.2.5.63 Nolu Koğuş

Soner Temel

B.1.37 Nolu Koğuş

Hikmet Tanıl

B.1.38 Nolu Koğuş

Bayram Balyan

 

Mahir Çağlar

B.1.37 Nolu Koğuş

Eren Tayşan

 

Yener Çıracı

B.1.40 Nolu Koğuş

 

Ankara Sincan Kadın Kapalı Hapishanesi

Hazal Kangal

C.2-5 Nolu Koğuş

Gizem Bayram

C.2-5 Nolu Koğuş

 

Bakırköy Kadın Kapalı Hapishanesi İstanbul

Çiçek Otlu

 

Goncagül Telek

 

 

Edirne Yüksek Güvenlikli F Tipi Kapalı Ceza İnfaz Kurumu

Emek Ulaş Suna

C-3/76 Nolu Koğuş

İmran Aydın

A6/16 Nolu Koğuş

Şahin Yeşilırmak

A6/16 Nolu Koğuş

Ulaş Bayraktaroğlu

A6/16 Nolu Koğuş

Sıtkı Güngör

 

Okan Danacı

 

Ergün Üzüm

 

Çağrı Aydoğan

 

Mehmet Kara

 

Emre Kaya

 

Erzurum H Tipi Hapishanesi

Çetin Kirsiz

 

Can Koçak

 

Dağlar Delen

 

Özgün Kaya

 

Özcan Kaya

 

Mukamet Çelik

 

Ali Sağlık

 

Kocaeli C Tipi Hapishanesi

Vedat Gündüz

 

Mesut Bulut

 

Kürkçüler E Tipi Hapishanesi

Mahmut Yiğit

 

 

 

Tekirdağ 1 Nolu F Tipi Hapishanesi

Boran Atıcı

B2 57 Nolu Koğuş

Ali Haydar Akdeniz

B2 57 Nolu Koğuş

Ersin Topçu

B2 57 Nolu Koğuş

Dinçer Ergün

 

Erdal Demirhan

 

Alp Altınörs

 

Ali Karaçay

 

Ali Sönmez Yanar

 

Emrah Görtaş

 

Erhan Baybekman

 

Hasan Tunç

 

Hüseyin Şahin

 

Mustafa Diren Saygılı

 

Salih Coşar

 

Sercan Genç

 

Ümit Yetik

 

 

 

 

 



 

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