Everyone who enters the Taksim Square to be treated as terrorist: Turkish EU minister

[Bosonic]

Source: Hurriyet Daily News

Everyone who will enter Istanbul's Gezi Park, the heart of the nearly 20-day-long protests, will be considered a terrorist, Turkey's European Union minister said in a televised interview today.

&quot The police) will intervene to everybody who try to enter the Taksim Square [treating them] as a terrorist," Minister Egemen Bağış said hours after the police's intervention to protesters in Istanbul.

Clashes between the police and protesters are continuing around the park along with some other parts of the city.

Bağış has been criticising the foreign media for exaggerating the protests in Turkey.

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[DFW]

1. "You're either with us or you're against us." Gee, sounds kinda familiar.......

Oh, right. Cheney, Bush and Rove. "Terrrrrrists."

Amazing (or, rather, not amazing) how authoritarian, religiously-themed governments always seem to need to use violent suppression on their own people to protect them from themselves.

[mbperrin]

2. Why sure, because anyone who wants to preserve the last green space in a large city

from becoming a shopping mall styled like an 18th century Ottoman military barracks IS OBVIOUSLY a TERRAIST!


I mean, what kind of radicals would rather have a public park than a private mall built like a 300 year old military building?

AND NO, YOU CANNOT MAKE THIS SHIT UP! This is why the Onion can do nothing with these protests - the government action is already beyond satire.

[dipsydoodle]

5. Headline states the square : not the park.

It had already become apparent earlier in the week that the protesters in the park and those in the square were not one and the same with many foreigners in the square.

[mbperrin]

8. Issues are the same. And they're the same here.

Privatization of public assets, socialization of private losses.

All same same.

Just to be sure, I am opposed to the US becoming involved there, just as I have been opposed to all military actions by this country since and including Korea.

Any individual who wants to go and help is doing fine, in my opinion, but it's none of the US government business one way or another.

[mbperrin]

10. Perhaps this can help clarify

Earlier, police also used tear gas and bursts of water to disperse hundreds of demonstrators from Taksim Square, which borders Gezi Park.


http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/tensions-soar-as-turkish-police-storm-protest-site/story-e6frg6so-1226664516831

[dipsydoodle]

11. I was aware that.

The reason the square is being cleared seems to be connected with a pro government rally tommorow - keeps the two sides apart if nothing else.

[polly7]

3. Amazing how much power can be claimed by using the word 'terrorist'

these days. I'm worriedly wondering what Turkey does to its' 'terrorists'/protesting civilians.

[Wilms]

4. I'm sure glad nothing like that would ever happen here.

[msongs]

6. they've watched how our american government treats OccupyWallStreet groups nt

[jakeXT]

7. Stay in a 5 star hotel and get money from Quatar ?

Their brand image, many rebels say, can sometimes make or break a deal with rich, private donors in the Gulf or the ultraconservative Sunni Muslim clerics pouring money into the Syrian rebellion.

It's not uncommon to see bearded, robed sheiks mingling with Syrian rebels in some of the fancier hotels of Antakya, the southern Turkish city that has served as something of a rear base for Syrian rebels and activists.

These benefactors sometimes ask to see YouTube proof of the rebels' military prowess. And the fancier the video, rebels say, the better.

For other brigades, it's also a matter of hearts and minds. Some hope their brand image - from their logo to responsiveness on Twitter - can help them win the favour of dissident Syrians who have grown critical of an armed rebellion they see as having strayed from the goals of a peaceful uprising.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/wall-street-journal/for-syrian-rebels-brand-rules-fight-for-hearts-minds-and-cash/story-fnay3ubk-1226634925153

[mbperrin]

9. Thank gawd we in the US had a revolution in 1776 with NO HELP from wealthy,

well-connected foreigners!

Well, that whole French thing, sure, but heck.

[jakeXT]

13. More like Britain during the Civil War.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britain_in_the_American_Civil_War

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

12. Anyone here remember the "Peoples Park" riots in Berkley in the sixties?

The university wanted a parking lot and it turned into battle that lasted days.

[L0oniX]

15. Yes I do!

[L0oniX]

14. Everyone who enters the Taksim Square to be attacked by government terrorists.