[ICTs-and-Society] The situation is getting worse in Turkey, Part 2

[Christian Fuchs]

The situation is getting worse in Turkey, Part 2
By İrfan Erdogan, erdogan.irfan at gmail.com

In Ankara, the situation was worse in Kugulu park and especially Dikmen 
neighborhood. In Dikmen, at 8:10 pm, police suddenly attacked the local 
people who have been demonstrating every night just like the people in 
various neighborhoods in Ankara and other cities). Police used pressured 
water and gas not only the people in the street but also people who were 
watching the event from their house windows and balconies. The local 
people were extremely angry because of sudden attacks and indiscriminate 
use of force to everybody. Because of heightened anger, people in Dikmen 
started active resistance using stones and any materials they can find 
on the street. The attack by police and active resistance from people in 
the Dikmen streets lasted until 4: 00 am. Because of the lie machine of 
the government, the local people were telling the TV reporters that the 
police threw gas bombs to a mosque and also to the windows of some 
businesses. The local people are aware of the fact that the government 
will provoke the pro-government people by telling them that 
demonstrators broke windows and destroyed a mosque (as if the Dikmen 
people are not Muslims).  At around 1:00 am, people witnessed that the 
police was adding chemicals to the vehicles that shoot pressured water 
to people. At around 2:00 am, attacks and resistance increased and an 
unknown number of local people were wounded. The police increased the 
attacks to peoples’ houses using gas and pressured water with unknown 
chemicals in. The Number of cars that joined the demonstrations also 
increased. At 3:00 am, the All Dikmen section of Ankara was under heavy 
gas smoke. Unfortunately there are many undercover police among the 
people and they start arresting people when they are alone or the crowd 
is sparse.
At 11 pm, the police attacked the peaceful demonstrators in the Kugulu 
Park, Tunalı Hilmi Street and Kennedy Street, by using gas and noise 
bombs.
A foreign journalist also was attacked by the police using pressured 
water. Here is the clip that shows that attack: 
https://www.59saniye.com/muhabir-tom-bartoni-tazyikli-su-ile-vuran-toma/
In Izmir and other cities, people protested against the police attack 
and they too faced police action.
We do not know how many people have been detained and arrested up to 
today. For instance, Yesterday, 22 of 25 detainees were arrested only in 
a single city (Ankara).
Today (Sunday). there will be more violence by the police and some goons 
with knives and sticks. A shameful human situation.
An additional English source about the events: 
http://www.sendika.org/category/english/