Fwd: [reclaiming-spaces] Fw: PEOPLE’S HOUSES: WE URGE THE PROGRESSIVE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOR URGENT SOLIDARITY ACTIONS WITH PEOPLE OF TURKEY!

Sun Jun 16 12:22:29 BST 2013

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> From: "richard pithouse" <indianocean77 at gmail.com>
> Date: 16 June 2013 11:13:14 BDT
> To: "Reclaiming Spaces" <reclaiming-spaces at listi.jpberlin.de>
> Subject: [reclaiming-spaces] Fw: PEOPLE’S HOUSES: WE URGE THE  
> PROGRESSIVE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOR URGENT SOLIDARITY ACTIONS  
> WITH PEOPLE OF TURKEY!
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> Subject: PEOPLE’S HOUSES: WE URGE THE PROGRESSIVE INTERNATIONAL  
> COMMUNITY FOR URGENT SOLIDARITY ACTIONS WITH PEOPLE OF TURKEY!
>
> PEOPLE’S HOUSES:
>
> WE URGE THE PROGRESSIVE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
>
> FOR URGENT SOLIDARITY ACTIONS WITH PEOPLE OF TURKEY!
>
>
> Dear brothers and sisters, dear friends of the democratic people’s  
> movement in Turkey!
>
>
> İstanbulites are under brutal attack and violence of the police and  
> gendarmarie forces since 15th June evening when the police attack  
> against Gezi Parkı started after the heavy provocations of PM  
> Erdogan. The city is under clouds of tear gas of all kinds,  
> including the prohibited kinds, used over all limits. Taksim square  
> looks like a war field and now is closed to public access. Rubber  
> bullets, water cannons scorching chemicals-acid and blast bombs are  
> widely utilized until the first hours of this morning. There are  
> queues of naked people waiting for aid in front of hospitals, yet  
> hospitals and hotels that are used as shelters are also attacked  
> with gas, over and over. Hotels around Taksim square are being  
> evacuated due to extreme use of gas; numerous children are lost and  
> heavily affected during the tear gas attack; a pregnant women lost  
> her 3,5 months old baby. 132 people are reported to be seriously  
> injured and 5 people are burnt due to chemical use.
>
>
> Briefly the JDP government is waging a war against its own citizens  
> by committing crimes of humanity: attacking hospitals and  
> volunteering health care personnel; using tear gas and other  
> chemicals inside houses, hotels and hospitals; closing the identity  
> numbers on the police helmets; exercising widespread censorship  
> over freedom of press; putting limitations over the Internet and  
> prevention of media access. Police and gendarmarie forces attacked  
> against thousands of Istanbulites marching from every corner of  
> Istanbul in order to reach the Taksim square until sunrise by  
> cutting the main highways and even walking across the Bosphorus  
> bridge. Many people who are witnessed to be arrested by police  
> cannot be found in the police stations.
>
>
> Despite this war-like attack is evidenced by visual material and  
> personal witnessing of various respectful members of the  
> progressive international community, Istanbul governor and other  
> government members claim that the police operation was “smooth”  
> and no one was seriously injured. This discourse, beyond being a  
> humiliation of the pains and suffering of Istanbulites, is  
> heralding new crimes of humanity that are planned to be committed  
> by the government following the “victory meetings” of PM  
> Erdogan, today in Istanbul after the one yesterday in Ankara.
>
>
> This brutal attack of the police forces should be stopped. The  
> government is and will be responsible for the following events. We  
> urge the progressive international community to strongly remind the  
> JDP government its responsibility with all available means.
>
>
> The mainstream media which is spreading disinformation in favour of  
> a government which is waging war against its all people should be  
> strongly reminded its democratic responsibilities.
>
>
> We are seriously concerned with the health status of our citizens  
> who are injured and would be injured. We urge the progressive  
> international community especially to warn the government about the  
> attacks against the children, pregnant women, injured citizens,  
> voluntary health personnel, temporary health shelters and hospitals.
>
> Yesterday evening ten thousands of people marched from every corner  
> of Istanbul and today this march will continue. It is not possible  
> to stop this march of our people.
>
> We urge the progressive international community to start urgent  
> solidarity actions with this democratic march of our people.
>
>
>
> Oya Ersoy
>
> People’s Houses Chairperson
>
>
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