Bay 12 Games Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  
Pages: 1 ... 22 23 [24] 25 26 ... 32

Author Topic: Arab Spring springs to Turkey  (Read 43533 times)

Haspen

  • Bay Watcher
  • Cthuwu
    • View Profile
Re: Arab Spring springs to Turkey
« Reply #345 on: June 15, 2013, 11:59:16 am »

A rural population backing a party that has strong religious ties inside a democracy, I wonder where I've seen that political situation before. :P

In every democratic country, at least once?
Logged
SigFlags!
Quote from: Draignean@Spamkingdom+
Truly, we have the most uniquely talented spy network in all existence.
Quote from: mightymushroom@Spamkingdom#
Please tell me the Royal Physician didn't go to the same college as the Spymaster.

Leatra

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Arab Spring springs to Turkey
« Reply #346 on: June 15, 2013, 01:31:37 pm »

Posting from an internet cafe atm. I'm away from İstanbul and internet and the only information I have is from the rare independent non-ass-licking Turkish media. Erdoğan gathered with some artists 2 days earlier to discuss the issue. I'm pretty sure the protestors won't give a shit about what comes out of these discussions until a representive group joins the discussions, not some random actors and musicians who are likely to compromise.

So... Turkey has a pretty long history of secular governance, right? Since 1920 or so?

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

Why is it regressing into theocracy now?
In the good ol' days, Erdoğan came off as a humble religious man trying to uphold the unpopular idea of Islamism. He was seen as "people's leader" of some sorts. He turned into this after 10 years of power. I watched some old videos of him speaking about various issues and he pretty much always contradicts with what he is now. He talked about how building the 3. bridge will destroy enviroment etc and now he is trying to demolish a park.

Democracy is like a tool for dictators now. Erdoğan said so himself, "Democracy is like a ship you had to take while trying to reach somewhere" or something like that.

Turks hate it when Turkey is being compared to Middle East. "People still think we are riding camels and wearing fes" is a common thing to say when people are talking about tourists. Anyway, if Turkey must be compared to a region other than Europe, than it would be better to compare it to Asian Turkic nations.

Anyway, AKP keeps trying to polarize the people. Nothing new really. People get paid 100 TLs for joining the AKP rallies and absentees get into trouble. I have even seen a woman at an AKP rally saying "We are behind Kılıçdaroğlu! (Main opposition party leader)." It's ridicilous to see how brainless some people can get.

AKP is trying to go for a referandum too, it seems. This didn't make the protestors happy, because protestors are the minority. It's like if Hitler made a referendum about something which Jews hate but Nazis love. This further supports my theory about how Erdoğan misunderstoods Democracy as something like "Dominance of the majority over the minority"

My favorite picture from the Turkish protests so far.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Epic Slingshot Granny

For some reason, I consider her Asian cause of the skin tone and the hairstyle.  Can't see the eyes at all.
Seems Turkish to me. Could be an Asian Turk. Not only Chinese and Japanese people have that "Asian" look you know :D

It's amazing how a protest bring people together. This isn't a young movement anymore. I have seen people in their 70s and 80s protesting in Taksim. There are also lots of women. You can hear women's screams louder than men's when chanting a slogan sometimes.

Cutting this short. I might be absent for a long time.
Logged

Haspen

  • Bay Watcher
  • Cthuwu
    • View Profile
Re: Arab Spring springs to Turkey
« Reply #347 on: June 15, 2013, 01:33:44 pm »

Take care, our Turkish ambassador of bay12!
Logged
SigFlags!
Quote from: Draignean@Spamkingdom+
Truly, we have the most uniquely talented spy network in all existence.
Quote from: mightymushroom@Spamkingdom#
Please tell me the Royal Physician didn't go to the same college as the Spymaster.

olemars

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Arab Spring springs to Turkey
« Reply #348 on: June 15, 2013, 01:39:17 pm »

The show is back on in Taksim according to live news. Police going in with teargas and watercannons.
Logged

XXSockXX

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Arab Spring springs to Turkey
« Reply #349 on: June 15, 2013, 02:24:01 pm »

The show is back on in Taksim according to live news. Police going in with teargas and watercannons.
Just saw that too. Apparently they have cleard Taksim and Gezi Park for now, with many people injured again and many arrested. Erdogan had given the protesters an ultimatum to leave the place until tomorrow, so that shows again how reliable his promises are.
Logged

olemars

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Arab Spring springs to Turkey
« Reply #350 on: June 15, 2013, 04:29:36 pm »

If I understand this correctly, he cleared the park to make room for an AKP rally in the park tomorrow? Isn't that just asking for violent clashes with thousands of people in the mix?

Edit:
Quote from: Releveant quote from article
Erdogan had delivered his warning at a rally of tens of thousands of supporters of his AKP party in Ankara promising that the square would be cleared by Sunday in time for a second rally there. "We have our Istanbul rally tomorrow," Erdogan warned. "I say it clearly: Taksim Square must be evacuated, otherwise this country's security forces know how to evacuate it."
« Last Edit: June 15, 2013, 04:32:41 pm by olemars »
Logged

Yannanth

  • Guest
.
« Reply #351 on: June 16, 2013, 06:59:35 am »

.
« Last Edit: November 21, 2016, 04:34:46 pm by Yannanth »
Logged

10ebbor10

  • Bay Watcher
  • DON'T PANIC
    • View Profile
Re: Arab Spring springs to Turkey
« Reply #352 on: June 16, 2013, 07:07:08 am »

So wait.

Quote
Everyone who enters Istanbul’s Taksim Square, the heart of nearly 20-day-long protests against the government, will be considered a member or a supporter of a terrorist organization
Quote from: Releveant quote from article
Erdogan had delivered his warning at a rally of tens of thousands of supporters of his AKP party in Ankara promising that the square would be cleared by Sunday in time for a second rally there. "We have our Istanbul rally tomorrow," Erdogan warned. "I say it clearly: Taksim Square must be evacuated, otherwise this country's security forces know how to evacuate it."

The AKP just declared itself a terroristical organisation?
Logged

DarkWolfXV

  • Bay Watcher
  • Infernally rotten to the gore.
    • View Profile
Re: Arab Spring springs to Turkey
« Reply #353 on: June 16, 2013, 09:43:54 am »

My first post to this thread, and while i didn't read the whole thing, holy shit, this is amazing that people are fighting back. Keep up the good work, im proud of these people. The Power Shovel Vs Police Car situation was just hilarious.
Logged
Goats will ignore your grass and eat the neighbours' roses. They're just evil bastards like that.
Probably thats why they are used with pentagrams on covers of Satanic Black Metal albums.
BURNING SHIT AND EATING ROOSESSSSSS DDOFOFAOAARRRAHYYYE

SalmonGod

  • Bay Watcher
  • Nyarrr
    • View Profile
Re: Arab Spring springs to Turkey
« Reply #354 on: June 16, 2013, 09:45:06 am »

Seeing stuff on Facebook about the police putting some chemical (supposedly labeled OC Solution) into the water cannons that is causing severe skin reactions.  Looks something like a painful sunburn.  Red, hot, and swollen.
Logged
In the land of twilight, under the moon
We dance for the idiots
As the end will come so soon
In the land of twilight

Maybe people should love for the sake of loving, and not with all of these optimization conditions.

Sheb

  • Bay Watcher
  • You Are An Avatar
    • View Profile
Re: Arab Spring springs to Turkey
« Reply #355 on: June 16, 2013, 10:37:27 am »

OC? That'd be pepper spray, in a water cannon.
Logged

Quote from: Paul-Henry Spaak
Europe consists only of small countries, some of which know it and some of which don’t yet.

SalmonGod

  • Bay Watcher
  • Nyarrr
    • View Profile
Re: Arab Spring springs to Turkey
« Reply #356 on: June 16, 2013, 10:39:29 am »

OC? That'd be pepper spray, in a water cannon.

Oh, duh :P

I just don't see it referred to as OC Spray very often, and OC Solution is even further off.
Logged
In the land of twilight, under the moon
We dance for the idiots
As the end will come so soon
In the land of twilight

Maybe people should love for the sake of loving, and not with all of these optimization conditions.

Dutchling

  • Bay Watcher
  • Ridin' with Biden
    • View Profile
Re: Arab Spring springs to Turkey
« Reply #357 on: June 16, 2013, 11:16:50 am »

I thought the internet generally sees OC as a good thing?
Logged

LordSlowpoke

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Arab Spring springs to Turkey
« Reply #358 on: June 16, 2013, 12:19:01 pm »

Watered down OC is not acceptable.
Logged

Leatra

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Arab Spring springs to Turkey
« Reply #359 on: June 16, 2013, 01:18:39 pm »

Wow Turkey, you just went full Arab. Erdogan is blaming the Jews for the protests. Never go full Arab.

Edit: man, this is gold. The police chief just played the terrorist card. So much popcorn, hahaha.
I know, right? Someone should shake Erdoğan and tell him to ease up on the Arab throttle. We got enough dictators in the East.

Police is definitely mixing something but I don't know what it is. I saw people puking their guts out. This can't be just pepper spray. A volunteer doctor helping the wounded around the area confirmed this.

What would a leader do in this situation? He would try to calm the population right? Erdoğan? Nope. He is just gathering an even bigger rally to oppose the protesters. Erdoğan is someone who would push his nation into a civil war just so he won't have to apologize.
Logged
Pages: 1 ... 22 23 [24] 25 26 ... 32