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[Owlbread]

I've been having trouble uploading my photos because of a few technical issues. I'll aim to get some pictures on here by the end of the week. Just a heads up, in case anyone was wondering.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Don't listen to him. Owlbread is clearly an AKP infiltrator attempting to lay the groundwork for the Scot-Turk Caliphate. We're onto your game!

[Owlbread]

Don't listen to him. Owlbread is clearly an AKP infiltrator attempting to lay the groundwork for the Scot-Turk Caliphate. We're onto your game!

You laugh, you joke... but at the back of your mind you wonder.

[Descan]

All you need is Portugal and Finland and you can have Europe surrounded.

[Owlbread]

All you need is Portugal and Finland and you can have Europe surrounded.

I am sure it can be arranged.

[misko27]

Nah. Because That would imply the Turks can cover the Balkans anymore, which is, a bit of a leap.

[Owlbread]

Nah. Because That would imply the Turks can cover the Balkans anymore, which is, a bit of a leap.

Well from their position they have influence over the Balkans, the whole of the Black Sea region, much of the Eastern Mediterranean; they've got that corner basically covered, they don't necessarily need to invade Serbia or something to "have it covered".

[misko27]

Oh no, not necessarily Serbia, just the whole freaking region.


They spent a very long period of their history being held by something or another. Now it has enough AKs to make sure it never happens again (there is a Serbian song entitled "Kalishnikov") That's why we kill each other, on the off chance someone gets a funny idea.

[Owlbread]

Oh no, not necessarily Serbia, just the whole freaking region.


They spent a very long period of their history being held by something or another. Now it has enough AKs to make sure it never happens again (there is a Serbian song entitled "Kalishnikov") That's why we kill each other, on the off chance someone gets a funny idea.

Again, I wasn't really talking about invasion or anything; they don't need to go that far. They just have "influence".

[XXSockXX]

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

I wouldn't know, never been to Orange County.

German media have reported that they mixed something into the water (a politician visiting Gezi Park got sprayed), but didn't explain what exactly it was.

[SalmonGod]

A very creative and touching protest tactic has been invented.

As anti-government protests continue to gain momentum in Turkey, they are also getting more creative. Last night, in the middle of the now infamous Taksim Square, a man in a white shirt stood in complete stillness, staring at the large Turkish flag and poster of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk on the nearby Ataturk Cultural Centre. The man had a sports bag to his side, planted on the floor. People in and around Taksim Square initially took little notice of the man.
 
Hours passed. The Turkish police, who have been on guard in Taksim to prevent protests, eventually noticed the man and headed over. They asked him several questions and searched his bag. The man didn't respond, continuing to stare into the distance.
 
It soon became obvious the man was staging a new kind of protest -- one he hoped would encourage a new, creative way of voicing opposition to the ongoing police brutality and oppression of basic human rights in Turkey.
 
Meanwhile, the hashtag #duranadam, or standing man, became the number one trending topic worldwide on Twitter. The power of the silent protest quickly went viral on social media. People from all around Turkey and the world have posted images of their own "standing man" photo ...
 
As support for the protest grew on social media, so did the actual protest at Taksim Square. Hundreds of passers-by stood next to the man in the white shirt, staring in stillness in the same direction.
 
A person claiming to be the man's housemate wrote on Twitter that the protest would continue for the next month, and that every three hours, there'd be a shift change, where someone else would take over the protest.
 
But it was short-lived. Police -- despite their initial confusion over what to do -- arrested the man in the white shirt, as well as the several people around him.
 
He was let go a few hours later. When asked by police why he was standing there, he replied: "I'm waiting for my friend." The police asked who his friend was, to which the man replied: "Ethem Sarisuluk". Sarisuluk is the latest casualty of police violence in Turkey who died on the weekend following being shot at his head with a tear gas bottle.
 
The single man's act of defiance has now turned into a global phenomenon, with photos being posted on Twitter. Or as the country's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan refers to it, the menace of society.

[Slayerhero90]

That's fuckin' beautiful.

[RedWarrior0]

Standing man vs Tank Dude. In a staring contest, or game of Chicken, of course

[Sheb]

Okay, how much time until Erdogan decree that anyone standing still is a terrorist?

[Morrigi]

I'd give it a week.