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Turk protesters continue to suffer from tear gas use
In a report released last week, the Turkish Medical Association, based in Ankara, the capital, said it had questioned more than 11,000 protesters nationwide who were exposed to tear gas for up to eight hours a day over multiple days during the protests, which convulsed Turkey for weeks in June. It said 39 percent complained […]
Turkey foreshadows US police state
The Turkish authorities widened their crackdown on the antigovernment protest movement on Sunday, taking aim not just at the demonstrators themselves, but also at the medics who treat their injuries, the business owners who shelter them and the foreign news media flocking here to cover a growing political crisis. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/17/world/europe/turkey.html?pagewanted=2&hpw In some of his toughest […]
Turkish police state turns on enviromentalists
Police staged a dawn raid on demonstrators who had been camping for days in Gezi Park in anger at plans to build a shopping mall, and clouds of tear gas rose around the area in Taksim Square that has long been a venue for political protest. http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2013/05/31/world/europe/31reuters-turkey-protests.html?ref=world Amnesty International said it was concerned by what […]
Dirty Babylon 