PEOPLE’S HOUSES:
WE URGE THE PROGRESSIVE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
FOR URGENT SOLIDARITY ACTIONS WITH PEOPLE OF TURKEY!

Dear brothers and sisters, dear friends of the democratic people’s movement in Turkey!

Istanbulites are under brutal attack and violence of the police and gendarmarie forces since 15th June evening when the police attack against Gezi Park? started after the heavy provocations of PM Erdogan. The city is under clouds of tear gas of all kinds, including the prohibited kinds, used over all limits. Taksim square looks like a war field and now is closed to public access. Rubber bullets, water cannons scorching chemicals-acid and blast bombs are widely utilized until the first hours of this morning. There are queues of naked people waiting for aid in front of hospitals, yet hospitals and hotels that are used as shelters are also attacked with gas, over and over. Hotels around Taksim square are being evacuated due to extreme use of gas; numerous children are lost and heavily affected during the tear gas attack; a pregnant women lost her 3,5 months old baby. 132 people are reported to be seriously injured and 5 people are burnt due to chemical use. Continue reading →