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(very rough translation of the text by Müştereklerimiz - a coalition of different movements in Istanbul that want to think, act and collaborate, the group includes anti-gentrification, migrant support, animal rights groups and more. )

We are all new people today!

Many things can be said about these four days: 'big' analysis can be made. But, what has happened in those four days? Gezi Park resistance made a big explosion in all of our, i.e. regular people's, collective action and organization capacity. Just with a spark... We saw the body of the resistance while walking through Bosphorus Bridge and while being fearless of the police brutality in Istiklal Street (in Taksim). We saw people supporting eachother while being exposed to gas, the shopkeepers distributing free food, and opening their doors to the wounded, doctors being there for help. Police declared a war against us; they ran out of their gas stocks, used rubber bullets, but could not stop the resistance. This collective body, which started with a spark, resisted for days. What has been experienced is in out collective memories; it became a life in itself circulating in our vains. While a new way of resisting is written in our memories, what is left from previous resistances was remembered as a simple fact: We can decide on our faith!

The resistance that started as a defense of Gezi Parkı, gave all of us trust with its dedication, insistence, its belief in its rightfulness, and creativity. The resistance spread from Gezi to Taksim, from Taksim to Istanbul, and from Istanbul to all over the country. Taksim Gezi Park Resistance became the place where we showed our anger against everything that prevented us from deciding on our own faith. Nothing will be the same, after this anger and this solidarity is voiced in such a way. None of us will be the person we were before this resistance. We saw something we have not seen before. We didn't only see it, we experienced it, we did it together. We saw our bodies moved by a spark, we were the collective body of resistance.
Gezi resistance provoked a youth upraising. It became the meaning and the place where one, or maybe two, generations - who in their lifetime never saw any other government/power but AKP, who identified authority with Erdogan-, showed their anger against this government, and possibly against any government. Any resistance in the near future will be enriched by this new generation. Gezi Parkı and Taksim Square resistance, at the same time, brought about the meaning of public space for us. Taksim Square is transformed, from a square around which AKP government is reinstating its own hegemony, into a square of resistance.
We saw the flame of resistance, and we know that we can create new flames. We felt our collective bodies against the seizure of our common areas/public spaces. We felt the resistance, we will not step back. New flames live in our bodies; we know that any moment is enough to turn that spark into a flame.

This is only the beginning, resistance continues!

Müştereklerimiz (Our Commons)

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[ENG translation above]
Bugün hepimiz yeni biriyiz!

Bu dört güne dair çok şey söylenip yazılabilir; “büyük” siyasal tahliller yapılabilir. Peki bu dört günde gerçekten ne oldu? Gezi Parkı direnişi, sıradan insanların, yani hepimizin kolektif eylem ve örgütlenme kapasitesinde büyük patlamaya yol açtı. Sadece bir kıvılcımla… Direnişin bedenini Boğaz Köprüsünden yürürken ve İstiklal caddesinde polis şiddetinden korkmazken gördük. Gaz altında bırakılmış insanların birbirlerini kolladığını, esnafın bedava yemek dağıttığını, yaralılara kapılarını açtıklarını, doktorların yardıma koştuklarını gördük. Polis bizlere savaş açtı; gaz stoklarını tüketip, plastik mermi kullandı ancak direnişin bedenini durduramadı. Bu kolektif beden bir kıvılcımla harekete geçip günlerce direndi. Yaşananlar kolektif hafızaya işlendi; damarlarda dolaşan bir hayat haline geldi. Hafızamıza yeni bir direniş nakşedilirken diğer direnişlerden kalan basit bir gerçeği de hatırladık: Kendi kaderimizi kendimiz tayin edebiliriz!

Gezi Parkı’nı bir müşterek olarak savunmak için yola çıkan direniş, kararlılığı, ısrarı, haklılığına olan inancı, yaratıcılığıyla hepimize güven verdi. Direniş kısa zamanda Gezi’den Taksim’e, Taksim’den İstanbul’a ve İstanbul’dan bütün ülkeye yayıldı. Kendi kaderimiz üzerinde söz söylemimize engel olan her şeye karşı öfkemizin anlatıldığı yer oldu Taksim Gezi Parkı direnişi. Bu öfkenin, bu dayanışmanın böylesine dile gelmesinden sonra hiçbir şey eskisi gibi olmayacak. Hiçbirimiz bu direnişten önceki kendimiz olmayacağız. Daha önce görmediğimiz bir şeyi gördük. Sadece görmedik yaşadık, hep birlikte yaptık. Bir kıvılcımla hareketlenen bedenlerimizi gördük, direnişin kolektif bedenini oluşturduk.

Gezi direnişi bir gençlik ayaklanmasını kışkırttı. Hayatında AKP iktidarından başkasını görmemiş, otoriteyi Erdoğan’la özdeşleştirmiş bir, belki iki kuşağın iktidara ve muhtemelen her türlü iktidara karşı öfkesini boşaltmasının alanı ve anlamı oldu Gezi. Yakın gelecekteki her mücadele de bu yeni kuşakla zenginleşecek. Gezi Parkı ve Taksim Meydanı direnişi aynı zamanda kamusal alanın politik anlamını ortaya çıkardı. Taksim Meydanı, AKP hükümetinin kendi hegemonyası çerçevesinde yeniden kurmak istediği bir meydandan mücadelenin meydanı haline geldi.

Direnişin kıvılcımını gördük, yeni kıvılcımlar yaratabileceğimizi biliyoruz. Ortak alanlarımıza el konmasına karşı kolektif bedenimizi hissettik. Direnişin tadını aldık, bundan geri adım atmayacağız. Yeni kıvılcımlar bizlerin bedeninde yaşıyor; alevlenmesi için tek bir anın yeterli olduğunu biliyoruz artık.

Bu daha başlangıç mücadeleye devam!

Müştereklerimiz

gaat er vandaag nog een trein naar turkije

3 June
The demonstrations continue..
The streets and districts controlled by people in many cirties, there were demonstrations in more than 65 cities in Turkey, and the violence gets higher as the night comes, last night more than 1000 protesters were arrested in Ankara and brought into a big gym and held there, their photos were taken by the police, and around 200 lawyers were waiting in front of the building, not being let in by the police.

the mobile first aid units that are formed by medical students and doctors were raided in Ankara, and both doctors and the wounded people were arrested.

2-3 escavators were taken over by the protestors in Istanbul and Ankara, one of them was following an TOMA(ME unit) in the streets in Istanbul yesterday night.

-Ege university in Izmir is occupied.

-since this morning in front of one of the main TV stations (Dogus Holding - NTV) people came together to protest media blackout, the tv station ignored the masses protesting in front of the building for a long time, they showed sport news instead, and they had to make the news about the situation in the end, possibly because they thought otherwise when things go wrong they might not make it to the news(!), and mainly because many companies withdrawing their advertisements from the channel (and that is due to the companies' fear of the crowds' anger towards the media blackout!).
Photo says 'Protesters in front of NTV building, protesting against the media blackout', you can see the NTV logo on it.

at the moment the situation in Ankara Guvenpark(a park close to Kizilay) is going bad, many arrests.

a hackers group from Turkey-RedHack- threatened to publish the names of the higher police officers and their addresses, and asked for police violence to stop. People are asking what they are still waiting for!

A website where police violence images are collected: delilimvar.tumblr.com

today Taksim Dayanismasi called for a protest against police violence, at 19hrs at Taksim. they also announced a list of demands.

there is call for general strike by the major unions.

-there is a general call for withdrawing accounts from certain banks and boycotting certain brands.

the first funeral today at 17hrs in Istanbul, of Mehmet Ayvalitas died yesterday after a car run into the demonstrators. The number of deaths are unclear at the moment, at least to me.

-one of the many slogans of the protestors says: "tayyip O. Ç." meaning 'tayyip(erdogan) is son of a prostitute", it is unfortunately a commonly used saying. Today a group of protesting prostitutes from Dikmen had a sign that says they are sure tayyip is not their son.;)

-people marked the trees in Gezi Park with names of kurdish people who were masacred in Roboski with chemical bombs on 28th December 2011, this was done with the order of army and government, and later it was claimed that those people were 'mistaken' with PKK members.

- at the very moment big clashes in Kizilay, Ankara. Many seriously injured, and ambulance not able to reach them, and mobile diy emergency units were raided yesterday!!. (14:30 NL time).

so far...

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Liveticker/Timeline: https://linksunten.indymedia.org/de/node/87876

Um möglichst vielen Menschen Zugang zu unabhängigen Informationen zu ermöglichen, hier der Liveticker zur Situation in der Türkei in mehrsprachiger Übersetzung.

To provide access to independent informations regarding the situation in Turkey to as many people as possible, we created a live-timeline translated to several languages.

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De nieuwste soundtrack voor de revolutie:

Every Day I'm Çapuling!, https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QV0NTUY0Zls .