Oh lovely! Turkey's Syria just starting?

Wunderbar!  This will teach that islamist honcho there to stop interfering in neighbouring countries at the command of his Sunni overlord, Saudi Arabia.  The riots and protests in Istanbul are continuing for the second day.  According to the internet reports, the protests started because a heavyily forested park was being cleared to make way for the development of a mall.  The Left didn't want that for whatever reason (did they ever want one?) and held a sit-down in the area from Monday,  preventing the bulldozing and tree-cutting.  The courts ordered the work to be halted and a review was called but the protesters were not appeased with that and continued with protesting against other stuff  in other areas.  Two days ago  the islamist honcho's minions moved in with tear gas and water cannons which enraged others  ... including non-lefties.  All of a sudden, this is not about cutting down trees but translates into something bigger ... their hatred for the islamic strictures imposed on the Turks like banning sale of alcohol and arresting couples for kissing in public or harassing females for wearing modern attire.  Turks don't like being pulled into the cavemen era from the 21st century lifestyle they had before the islamists took over the government.   Good for them !!


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Burak Bekdil writing at HurriyetDailyNews has the low down on how the "kissing protest" started:
....Two years ago, the Prime Ministry’s department for family and social research carried out a survey of 5,765 students across Turkey, only to find that half of them did not have friends from both sexes and 60 percent faced domestic violence. About the same time a city bus driver in Istanbul had violently kicked out a young couple who had kissed during the journey. The angry driver had shouted after them: “This is not a sex bus!” Apparently, the pious Muslim driver thought babies were born after their parents kissed each other. 

To protest against the incident, a group of maverick youths, all couples, launched a campaign to collectively take a bus on the same route and start kissing each other spontaneously. The “collective kissing protest” on the bus sparked another protest campaign – this time from a group of students from imam schools who vowed that “they would not allow sex on the street.” 

Last week, when about 200 Turks held a mass kissing protest at an Ankara subway station in response to a public announcement at the same station that had requested passengers “to behave morally,” conservative religious groups attacked them with machetes, shouted religious slogans and injured some of the protestors. The metro incident in Ankara is merely a more violent repetition of the “sex bus affair” in Istanbul. Apparently, with the newfound state/police power they arrogantly rely on, the conservative Turks will never learn to mind their own business. 

What are the core values conservative Muslims defend? Human dignity and morals? In a way. In an extremely corrupted way. The same groups of “sensitive Muslims” that are always on alert to get organized, beat and perhaps even kill kissing couples have never been seen to protest when, for instance, nearly 80,000 women faced domestic violence in the 18 months to Aug. 2011 alone; or when violence against women rose 1,400 percent during their beloved Islamist government’s first seven years in power. They never protested when men raped 102 women and 59 underage girls in 2011 alone......