About
Occupygezi (aka. Taksim Gezi Park Protests) is the protests which is still proceed in Turkey by anti-goverment organizations and political parties against the Islam partizan goverment.
Spreading Of Occupy
At first in 28 May 2013 the initial Istanbul protests were only led by about 50 environmentalists against replacing Taksim Gezi Park with a reconstruction of the historic Taksim Military Barracks , with the possibility of housing a shopping mall.[1] During the protests Turkish police used violently force and this caused the simple protest into a country-wide riot.
Summary Of Event
After the attack of the Turkish Police(with high pressure water, tear gaz and even with the Agent Orange*); protesters used Twitter hashtags and facebook shares to call people over the protest. Police forces violently tried to prevent the protest against the mall. The violent actions of Turkish Police attracted more protestans. Then the protest turned into a hatred against the goverment and the protest turned into a riot.
After the huge amound groups of protestors have been accumilated in Taksim Gezi Park, police forces cannot prevented almost one million protestants and falled back.
After the succeed in Taksim, protest spread around the country. In all district, Taksim protest has been supported by the other protests and fascist groups.
Goverment’s Manner
Noted by the foreign media, Turkish media coveraged a little about the protest. Turkish Telecommunication also tried to censor social media and networks.
PM Recep Tayyip Erdoğan dismissed the protest in all around the country and called the protesters “bunch of looters”.
From Reddit[7]
The inflammatory speeches of the PM have caused quite an interesting change of mind in a bunch of his former supporters who have seen their relatives, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters hurt by the police brutality. They now back up the youths, I don’t know if he’s really stupid or too confident in his power but it certainly is not going as expected for him. The demonstrations are now all over the country.
Support from Anonymous
.@mfaturkey When can we expect an end to your state’s terrorism against its own people? & your resignation? (Not a matter of if, but when)
— Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) 1 Haziran 2013
Spread In World-wide
BBC[5], Aljazeera[6], Guardian[7] mentioned this news in first pages. Turkish hashtags against the project and the turkish goverment became the most discussed hashtags on twitter. On Reddit[4] the crime against the humanity has been frontpaged. Few 4chan threads have been opened on /b/ or /pol/.