What began in an Istanbul park has tapped in to years of grievances by Ece Temelkuran (NewStatesman) “Well, we are just filling light bulbs with paint,” said my friend, a cafe owner in Cihangir, the Soho of Istanbul. Speaking to me on the phone, she sounded as relaxed as if she was baking an apple pie. “You know,” she continued, […]
By Tarihinde Yayımlandı To my friends who live outside of Turkey: I am writing to let you know what is going on in Istanbul for the last five days. I personally have to write this because most of the media sources are shut down by the government and the word of mouth and the internet are the only ways left […]
Turkey is entering its third day of violent protests as police have withdrawn from Taksim Square and allowed the mass protests to continue by Daniel Jackson Over 900 people have been arrested across Turkey for what the authorities called a security measure. The first photo below was taken from a CNN IReport that CNN themselves have not vetted. An RT […]
In a series of raids in the capital of Istanbul and in the southern provinces of Mersin, Adana and Hatay near the Syrian border, Turkish police rounded up 12 members of Syria’s Al Qaeda-affiliated Al Nusra Front along with chemical weapons materials by Bill Van Auken (World Socialist Web Site) The Turkish media initially reported that police recovered four and […]
After nearly a week of increasing public protests in Turkey, ostensibly over government plans to turn a last bit of green space in Istanbul into another shopping mall, matters became far more serious on Friday. Riot police descended on the protestors with various forms of tear gas (and possibly worse chemical and biological agents — raw sewage?) and water cannon, […]
AMSTERDAM: The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court – the permanent war crimes court in The Hague, Netherlands – says she has received a complaint about Israel’s 2010 raid on a humanitarian aid flotilla bound for Gaza, and she will open a preliminary investigation by Toby Sterling The complaint comes from the tiny African state of Comoros, a member of the […]
The people of Antakya blame Erdogan terrorist supporting foreign policy for the bombings in Reyhanli. BSN Editor’s Note: For almost two years, British MI6 and SAS have been training FSA terrorists in these gruesome acts directed initially against the civilian population of Syria.
