What's happening on the Turkey front

Today is supposed to be the 9th day of the protests.  The protesters, at least to my eyes now, are  beginning to look more and more like the Occupy crowd we had here in the West a short while ago.  Aimless and just creating trouble for trouble's sake.  Revolution?  I don't think so. These are mostly well brought up Turkish youngsters and they don't have the murderous, rapist muslim genes of the Egyptians and of course they also don't have the support of the USA which the Egyptian rebels rampaging on behalf of the MB had enjoyed.   Will this bring down the islamist Erdogan?  All bets are off.  The polls show his popularity is intact and the economy is healthy and fine all over Turkey.

I am sure the islamist thugs in Turkey have done something to suppress tweets.  The first day or two, there was a heavy deluge of tweets with lots of info. Compared to that, what we see now on social media is just a tickle.  Goes to prove how Twitter, YouTube and other social media has been largely comprised and are willingly bending to dictatorial regimes.



From HurriyetDailyNews:
Compared to previous days, the ninth day of the Gezi Park protests saw more police violence in the center of Ankara on June 5, despite the government’s public declaration that the security forces had been instructed to exercise restraint.
Police again used tear gas and water cannon to quell protesters late afternoon in Kızılay Square, most of whom were members of unions who had called for a strike in solidarity with the Gezi Park demonstrations. After intervening and dispersing the majority of the crowd in Kızılay, the police made an announcement to the rest and called on them to disperse.
Both the rapid and sudden intervention and the announcement of the police were prompted by a claim that a group planned to put up tents in Güvenpark of Kızılay Square. Unlike Gezi, Güvenpark is venue to intense pedestrian flow and is surrounded by both public bus and dolmuş stops – a shared taxi that runs set routes within cities.
 
Google translation:   ...The police broke the Ankara Bar Association lawyers, neck and jaw bone'. Chairman of the Ankara Bar Association, two colleagues reported that the direct victim of police violence. Presidency, Attorney Sarper Gürcan 's beginning-eye, a trainee lawyer Ayse Akyol Eda 's badly beaten by four police raid dumps, broken bones, neck and chin said. Baro, "the Ankara Bar Association Training Center for Democracy and freedoms shelter building has become the target of some of the police officers," he said. Description of the Bar Association are as follows:

Not afraid to use their democratic rights, for the protection of our citizens are victims of police violence wherever our colleagues who work on behalf of Baromuz verbatim testimony, indicate clearly the point of origin grave. ......

More here.
and here's a blogger liveblogging what happening on an hourly basis.