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"Maybe the media and people will learn something from this silent standing, this resistance... Maybe they will feel some empathy. I am just an ordinary citizen of this country. We want our voices to be heard." -- Erdem Gundez, the standing man -
Duran Adam: the "standing man" inspires silent protests in Turkey
Performance artist Erdem Gunduz is the new symbol of anti-government protests in Turkey after his eight-hour vigil in Taksim Square on Monday earned him the nickname "the silent man."
Gunduz stands quietly in the large, open square, but Gunduz sought to play down his importance in demonstrations that have shaken Turkey's image of stability. Gunduz said he was protesting in solidarity with demonstrators who were evicted at the weekend from Gezi Park adjoining Taksim, an intervention by police that triggered some of the most violent clashes to date. -
People stand facing Ataturk Cultural Center during a protest at Taksim Square in Istanbul on June 18, 2013. REUTERS/Marko Djurica
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#duranistanbul #stand #duranadam #istanbul #direnis #turkey #türkiye #direntürkiyem
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Duran Adam protests spread across Turkey: Overnight, there were copycat demonstrations of Duran Adam in places where people suffered violent deaths both in the latest unrest and further in the past. Three men stood at the place were Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink was shot dead in 2007 north of Taksim Square.
A group of women and men also stood facing a former hotel in the central city of Sivas, where 37 people, mostly from the Alevi minority, died in a 1993 fire started during an Islamist protest against the presence at a meeting there of a translator of Salman Rushie's "The Satanic Verses".
In the province of Hatay on the Syrian border, a man stood with his hands in his pockets beside a makeshift shrine for Abdullah Comert, who was killed during clashes there between police and protesters. Others gathered at the place where a man died during the protests in the capital Ankara and there were similar protests in Izmir. -
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Atatürk hayattayken dünya Türkiye'yi konuşurdu. Şimdi de Atatürk ruhu taşıyan Türk'ler cesareti ve zekasıyla tekrar adından bahsettiriyor:) Atam izindeyiz :)
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A Turkish riot policeman uses tear gas as people protest against the destruction of trees in a park brought about by a pedestrian project, in Taksim Square in central Istanbul May 28, 2013.
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Reuters led early coverage of Turkey's protests. Photographer Osman Orsal captured the first iconic photograph of the scene: a woman in a red dress.
With her red cotton summer dress and white bag, she might have been floating across the lawn at a garden party; but before her crouches a masked policeman firing teargas spray that sends her long hair billowing upwards. Endlessly shared on social media and replicated as a cartoon on posters and stickers, the image of the woman in red has become an important symbol during days of violent anti-government demonstrations in Turkey -
Erdem Gunduz stands in a silent protest at Taksim Square in Istanbul early on June 18, 2013. REUTERS/Marko Djurica
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Turkish police battle protesters in Istanbul square
Turkish riot police using tear gas and water cannons battled protesters for control of Istanbul's Taksim Square on Tuesday night, hours after Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan demanded an immediate end to 10 days of demonstrations.
The governor of Istanbul went on television to declare that police operations would continue day and night until the square, focus of demonstrations against Erdogan, was cleared.
Police fired volleys of tear gas canisters into a crowd of thousands - people in office clothes as well as youths in masks who had fought skirmishes throughout the day - scattering them into side streets and nearby hotels. Water cannons swept across the square targeting stone-throwers in masks. The protesters, who accuse Erdogan of overreaching his authority after 10 years in power and three election victories, thronged the steep narrow lanes that lead down to the Bosphorus waterway. Gradually, many began drifting back into the square as police withdrew, and gathered around a bonfire of rubbish.
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Earlier: Turkish central bank boosts lira as clashes obscure economic gains
Reuters (June 11) -- Turkey's central bank acted to support the lira on Tuesday and Turkish debt insurance costs rose, as markets - looking past data on faster economic growth - took fright at fresh police and protester clashes in Istanbul. Citing "excessive volatility ... due to international and domestic developments during the last month", the central bank said it planned short-term extra policy-tightening steps through open market operations.
It skipped its usual fixed-rate repo auction and held five $50 million forex-selling auctions, saying it would continue such sales whenever necessary. It said it would also intervene directly in the foreign exchange market if needed. Two weeks of demonstrations against plans to redevelop an Istanbul park have spiraled into violent anti-government protests across the country, fueling losses in Turkish assets.
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@JosephHerbert: great question. Most countries are responding to the protests in Turkey differently, although for the most park, EU leaders have said they support "peaceful protests."
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READER COMMENT: Can you please advise if the EU is taking any action or not in respect of democracy? -
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by Jim Roberts via twitter 6/11/2013 8:18:26 PM -
Lawyers detained for joining Gezi Park protests released http://bit.ly/192M6AJby HDNER via twitter 6/11/2013 8:06:31 PM -
Protesters run as riot police fire teargas during a protest at Taksim Square in Istanbul, June 11, 2013. REUTERS/Osman Orsal
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Amnesty International's Turkey researcher Andrew Gardner responds to Erdogan's speech, saying the prime minister bears "personal responsibility" for the violence:
“The Turkish Prime
Minister has sought to declare the recent wave of protest over by personal
diktat - this is not how the freedom of assembly works. Prime Minister Erdogan
now bears personal responsibility for the violence that immediately followed
his words. Peaceful protest must be respected and the international community
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Correction: Istanbul's governor, not mayor, made the now updated statement below.
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Woman pulled alive from rubble of Bangladesh factory
Rescuers pulled a woman on Friday from the rubble of a Bangladesh garment factory 17 days after it collapsed, astonishing workmen who had been searching for bodies of victims of a disaster that has killed more than 1,000 people.
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Sanctions help to stoke Iran property boom
While the sanctions threaten to bring the Iranian economy to its knees, million dollar apartments fitted out with the best imported equipment have become ever more common in Tehran.
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A team of Japanese and Brazilian scientists say they may have discovered part of the earth's original continent off the coast of Brazil before the land masses drifted apart. Jessica Gray reports.
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With China's high net worth individuals moving from wealth creation to wealth preservation, a Bain study shows the siren call of overseas investments is stronger than ever. Jon Gordon reports.
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Reuters: OBAMA SAYS SO FAR US AND SOUTH KOREA HAVE NOT SEEN INDICATIONS FROM NORTH KOREA THAT IT IS PREPARED TO MOVE IN A PEACEFUL DIRECTION -
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Obama says he has never had a conversation with Kim Jong Un, in case you were wondering.by Blake Hounshell via twitter 5/7/2013 6:10:43 PM -
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Assad blocks access to Damascus for EU envoys: diplomats
BRUSSELS Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has revoked special visas for European Union diplomats and officials traveling regularly between Beirut and Damascus, complicating efforts to distribute aid to civil war victims, three senior EU diplomats said.