Turkey

Unknown Soldier · 06-10-2013, 07:44 AM

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Originally Posted by misspoptart

I'm saying that this is the first time they have fought a substantial number of civilians and this is by far the largest injury count. And this is not "just another routine police crackdown," either, as if anything could be further from the situation in Taksim on Saturday the 2nd or Ankara for the past two nights. In fact this is a historical event -- 6 or 7 police have committed suicide over it and 3 people have died -- that has no precedent whatsoever in Turkey. So get a clue.

Certain people have this belief that when something new and tragic happens, it must be worse than whatever happened before. I think you need to open your eyes and look at some plain facts about police brutality in Turkey and there are links below that go way back. The only difference today, is that thanks to the world media the eyes of the world are on Turkey.

I'm sure you're familiar with the Taksim Square massacres and crackdowns.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_(1969)
Taksim Square massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I don't normally use left wing links that often but this is not bad.
Turkey: Police brutality intensifies along with the political crisis - World Socialist Web Site

..... and let us not forget the genocide of 1,500,000 Armenians of which the Turkish police were involved.
The History Place - Genocide in the 20th Century: Armenians in Turkey: 1915-18

As you can see Turkey has a long history of police aggression and if you want more links I'm only too happy to oblige, there's no shortage of them!