June 2013
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This is a platform to provide up to date and verified information on the events in Istanbul as they unfold, set up and operated by activists on the ground.
After a week of protests and police brutality, a group representing the Gezi Park Solidarity met with government officials in Ankara and handed in a list of six demands. Erdogan, however, does not seem to be willing to meet any of the demands even halfway and is instead hoping to leverage the polarization of Turkish society to his advantage.
ISTANBUL (Turkey) (AFP) - (AFP) - Protesters who have been occupying Istanbul’s Gezi park for six days in an effort to save it from the bulldozers take to mass yoga as a new form of protest. Duration: 01:27
Infografik website released a graphic recapping the Gezi Resistance events between May 29 and June 6.