Occupy Gezi #45 Gaat er nog wat gebeuren?!

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Op donderdag 12 september 2013 01:14 schreef Viajero het volgende:

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Maar is er iets aan de hand op het moment dan? Ik ga morgen een vriendin bezoeken in Istanbul, en die heeft me verteld dat het gewoon rustig is op het moment.

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Op donderdag 12 september 2013 18:59 schreef PSV1990- het volgende:

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Wat doet ie op het dak van ze huis??

Erdogan heeft het weer onder controle wat een baas !

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Op donderdag 12 september 2013 21:12 schreef HiZ het volgende:

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Het is niet gewoon rustig op het moment.

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Op vrijdag 13 september 2013 07:54 schreef Dven het volgende:
De keren dat ik er afgelopen maand ben geweest was het prima vertoeven

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Op vrijdag 13 september 2013 08:28 schreef HiZ het volgende:

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Ja de afgelopen maand was het rustig, maar nu zijn de demonstraties kennelijk weer beginnen. Het is zeer aan te raden alert te zijn want voor je het weet verandert Istiklal Caddesi in een chaos met mensen die op de vlucht slaan voor traangas en waterkanonnen.

Ik heb dat zelf ook wel eens meegemaakt; ene moment was er niks, volgende moment begon er iets en 20 seconden later was er een waterkanon aan het spuiten. De politie is volkomen incompetent en ze reageren op alles met zoveel geweld dat mensen die niks met de demonstraties hebben in de problemen raken.

Maar goed, Erdogan's maatjes hier zullen wel weer vinden dat winkelen in Taksim je per definitie een terrorist maakt.

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Istanbul Biennial under fire for tactical withdrawal from contested sites | World news | The Observer

A crackdown on anti-government protests forced the art show to abandon its more edgy ideas. But the spirit of Taksim Square is not entirely absent

For the time being, the days of "art for art's sake" are over in Turkey. A police crackdown on a fresh protest in Taksim Square threatened to overshadow the opening of the Istanbul Biennial, the country's most important contemporary art event, last week. Unaccustomed to street combat, the international art crowd found themselves inelegantly dodging clouds of tear gas as they milled from parties to private views.

Calm had returned by the time of the press preview. But the incident highlighted how this year's biennial, which brings together 88 Turkish and international artists, has struggled to avoid being sidelined by political events and has itself become a source of controversy.

This year's event, entitled Mom, Am I Barbarian? addresses much of the dissatisfaction with prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's increasingly authoritarian regime. Turkish artist Halil Altindere's film Wonderland captures the anger and frustration of Roma youths from Istanbul's Sulukule district, whose community was forced out of its historic settlement by a redevelopment that raised house prices tenfold. The darkly humorous hip-hop video shows boys in mock fights with mechanical diggers and setting fire to a security guard. Aggressive lyrics ram the point home: "We pissed on the foundations of the newly built blocks ... My town will be torn down. Soon Sulukule will be home to the bourgeoisie."

A display of photographs by Dutch duo Wouter Osterholt and Elke Uitentuis shows how they made a replacement peace monument with the help of residents of Kars, on the Armenian border. The original, by a Turkish artist, was demolished before it was finished after Erdogan described it as a "freak".

It's all very different from what the biennial's curator, Fulya Erdemci, originally proposed back in January. The plan then was for artists to work in some of the city's most contested areas. But everything changed in May when thousands gathered in Taksim Square, including artists, actors, writers and musicians, who staged performances and led demonstrations against plans to develop adjacent Gezi Park. Following the brutal clearance of the square in June, the biennial decided on a tactical withdrawal. Now the exhibition is being held in some of Istanbul's most established galleries, including Arter and Salt on bustling Istiklal Street. Erdemci is determined to ensure that the exhibition speaks to the recent political turmoil. "I want you to hear what's happening on the streets," she said.

She claimed the biennial was also a victim of the city's gentrification because its main venue, Antrepo 3, which has a prime view of the Bosphorus, is set to "become a five-star hotel or a shopping centre". The first artwork to greet visitors is a replica wrecking ball swinging from a crane on to the side of the building. Erdemci described the piece, by Turkish artist Ayse Erkmen and entitled "bangbangbang", as a ticking bomb, reflecting the fact that "this is the last time we can use this space".

But some local art critics and artists said the biennial should have seized the opportunity to learn from the Taksim protesters how to organise more effectively to subvert public spaces.

Artist Ahmet Ögüt, who runs the Silent University, an alternative art school for refugees supported by the Tate, said: "You lose time when you send things by email and try to get permission. It was the opposite during Gezi. People were improvising; they were very fast and very efficient at organising collectively. The biennial could learn from that."

Marcus Graf, associate professor of contemporary art theory at Istanbul's Yeditepe University, said: "Just pulling out of the city and organising the exhibition in white cubes does not seem right to me. There, everything is approved and accepted anyway by the followers of art and culture. I believe that this is a great failure, a missed chance."

Arie Amaya-Akkermans, an Istanbul-based writer on contemporary Middle Eastern art, agreed: "This is not engaging with the public. They should have occupied abandoned buildings and turned them into art spaces."

Given the difficult politics surrounding the biennial, some of the most effective work addresses the darker side of the art world. Berlin artist Hito Steyerl is showing a video lecture about how she traced the origins of ammunition from a battlefield in southern Turkey where a friend of hers who joined the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) was executed by government troops. Steyerl then uncovered links between the art world and defence companies including Koç Holding. Koç is one of Turkey's major corporations, whose subsidiaries supply the army and the police; it is also a biennial sponsor.

Another German artist, Christoph Schäfer, offers a more positive example of how artists might work to create social change. Since the mid-1990s he has helped run Park Fiction in Hamburg, through which local residents banded together to redevelop an open space themselves, thereby preventing it from being sold off to private developers. For the biennial, Schäfer has made a series of large-scale conceptual drawings of the Istanbul parks where citizens gathered after the suppression of the Gezi occupation. Two drawings, based on photos posted on Twitter on the night of 15 June as riot police moved into Taksim Square, show how the Hamburg collective declared solidarity with the Istanbul protesters by renaming themselves Gezi Park Fiction.

Schäfer said localised urban struggles across the world had emerged as key ways of developing new forms of resistance. He said: "We have the same situation of 'Gezification' in London, Hamburg, Istanbul. These urban protesters, and their use of social media, show how emancipatory movements can work in the future and how public spaces can become sites for forming new coalitions to effect political change.

"For me, it's quite clear art cannot assume a position of critical distance any more. If a space like the biennial is polluted – there's no clean money in the art world – you have to figure out your role in that. As artists we're inside the system, and it gives us a certain power."

Andrea Phillips, co-curator of the biennial's cancelled public programme, said the exhibition's problematic gestation had made her re-evaluate how art institutions should address politics. Phillips, a reader in fine art at London's Goldsmiths university, said: "We need to decide whether we're going to carry on playing at politics or understand the need to position ourselves differently. If you simply recognise your position in this rarefied world of art, you're not going to make change. We need to think about programming work that might create real long-term change for local people."

Bron: www.theguardian.com

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Op maandag 16 september 2013 02:38 schreef PSV1990- het volgende:
Zijn de seculiere hippies weer gekalmeerd ??

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Op vrijdag 20 september 2013 13:22 schreef Baklava95 het volgende:
Die "seculiere maloten" kunnen nooit mijn leider Erdogan afzetten.

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Op vrijdag 20 september 2013 13:05 schreef Slayage het volgende:

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tis meer een tactische terug trekking

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Op vrijdag 20 september 2013 13:22 schreef Baklava95 het volgende:
Die "seculiere maloten" kunnen nooit mijn leider Erdogan afzetten.

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Turkey’s national warship tender canceled following complaints

Two corvettes had already been constructed before the cancellation. DHA photo

Two corvettes had already been constructed before the cancellation. DHA photo
Turkey’s top defense procurement body has canceled a tender which was earlier won by Koç Holding to build a number of corvettes as part of the national Milgem national warship project after complaints were raised by companies who were excluded from the tender.

The Defense Industry Executive Committee, led by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has decided to relaunch the tender after an in depth re-examination of files by inspectors.

Koç Holding’s enterprise RMK Marine was assigned Jan. 3 to construct six ships as part of the Milgem national warships project.

Two corvettes had already been constructed before the cancellation.

Divan Hotel in Taksim, which belongs to the Koç Group, had opened its doors to Gezi protesters who were exposed to tear gas. For that reason Koç Holding was criticised by some groups for supporting the Gezi protests.

After the Gezi protests, the group’s flagship company, TÜPRAŞ, faced a number of tax and quality controls. And a government committee cancelled the contract for the national warship project (MİLGEM), which had been awarded to Koç Holding’s RMK Marine for around $2.5 billion in January. Finally, some statements read that the Kalamış Marina tender would b

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Op vrijdag 25 oktober 2013 19:02 schreef voetbalmanager2 het volgende:
Turkse rectors op de korrel na protesten

De autoriteiten in Turkije doen onderzoek naar meer dan 180 schoolhoofden, die naar verluidt hun leerlingen toestemming gaven om deel te nemen aan de protesten tegen de conservatieve islamitische regering afgelopen zomer. Vijf schoolhoofden zijn al overgeplaatst, twee anderen werden teruggezet naar een lagere functie, meldden Turkse media vrijdag.
De rectors worden beschuldigd van het ondersteunen van de landelijke demonstraties tegen de regering van premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Alleen al in de regio van de hoofdstad Ankara lopen procedures tegen 101 rectors.

De protesten in Turkije begonnen in de zomer rond het Gezi Park aan de rand van het Taksimplein in het centrum van Istanbul. Ze waren vooral gericht tegen de autoritaire stijl van regeren van Erdogan.
http://www.telegraaf.nl/b(...)_op_de_korrel__.html

De overheid gaat dus gewoon rectors bestraffen alleen omdat ze toestemming gaven aan leerlingen om met de demonstraties mee te doen.

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Op vrijdag 25 oktober 2013 19:02 schreef voetbalmanager2 het volgende:
Turkse rectors op de korrel na protesten

De autoriteiten in Turkije doen onderzoek naar meer dan 180 schoolhoofden, die naar verluidt hun leerlingen toestemming gaven om deel te nemen aan de protesten tegen de conservatieve islamitische regering afgelopen zomer. Vijf schoolhoofden zijn al overgeplaatst, twee anderen werden teruggezet naar een lagere functie, meldden Turkse media vrijdag.
De rectors worden beschuldigd van het ondersteunen van de landelijke demonstraties tegen de regering van premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Alleen al in de regio van de hoofdstad Ankara lopen procedures tegen 101 rectors.

De protesten in Turkije begonnen in de zomer rond het Gezi Park aan de rand van het Taksimplein in het centrum van Istanbul. Ze waren vooral gericht tegen de autoritaire stijl van regeren van Erdogan.
http://www.telegraaf.nl/b(...)_op_de_korrel__.html

De overheid gaat dus gewoon rectors bestraffen alleen omdat ze toestemming gaven aan leerlingen om met de demonstraties mee te doen.

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Op zaterdag 26 oktober 2013 18:43 schreef Slayage het volgende:

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BAAS erdogan

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78 percent of Gezi Park protest detainees were Alevis: Report

More than 5,500 demonstrations or activities were staged within the framework of the country-wide movement dubbed “Gezi protests” that were prolonged for 112 days after being kindled in Taksim Gezi Park at the end of May, according to an analysis report. DAILY NEWS photo, Emrah GÜREL

More than 5,500 demonstrations or activities were staged within the framework of the country-wide movement dubbed “Gezi protests” that were prolonged for 112 days after being kindled in Taksim Gezi Park at the end of May, according to an analysis report. DAILY NEWS photo, Emrah GÜREL
Almost 80 percent of protesters detained as part of the Gezi Park protests were Alevis, according to daily Milliyet citing a report by Turkish security and intelligence authorities.

The daily reported that the authorities have prepared a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the anti-governmental protests spread across the country over summer, using detainees as samples.

More than 5,500 demonstrations or activities were staged within the framework of the country-wide movement dubbed “Gezi protests” that were prolonged for 112 days after being kindled in Taksim Gezi Park at the end of May, according to the analysis reported by daily Milliyet columnist Tolga Şardan Nov. 25.

The security forces’ study also sheds light on the characteristics of the protestors, by using more than 5,000 detainees’ personal data as samples to determine the profile of whole movement.
Seventy-eight percent of people detained were Alevis, the report said.

Also according to the analysis, only 12 percent of the suspects are “linked with political parties,” 6 percent of which are involved in “extremist leftist groups,” dubbed as marginal left groups by the Security Directorate. Some 4 percent of them also alleged to be working for “terrorist organizations and their legal organizations affiliated with them.”

Around 3.6 million people attended demonstrations while 5,513 of them have been detained by the police in the 80 provinces the protests erupted in. The Black Sea province Bayburt was reported to be the only province in which no protests were staged, the analysis revealed.

According to a “demographic analysis” conducted by the police, half of the suspects were women.
Around 15 percent of them are primary or secondary school graduates; a quarter of them are high-school graduates, whereas more than half of them have a background in higher education: 25 percent of them are university graduates and 36 percent of them are still studying at universities.

The young profile of the protestors was also affirmed by the police records, as 56 percent of the detained participants are between the ages of 18 and 25 and 26 percent of them are between 26 and 30 years old. Only 1 percent of the suspected protestors are over 40.

When looked to financial conditions, 39 percent of them say their monthly income is between 0 to 499 liras, 15 percent of them say between 500 to 999 liras and of 31 percent were between 1000 to 1999 liras. One fifth of them declared they earn more than 2,000 liras in a month.

Moreover, 189 people have been arrested within the investigation looking into the incidents. 4,329 people, including 697 police officers, have been injured and five people have died.

The research also claims the protests took the heavy toll of approximately 139 million liras.

Damage on business constitutes half of the amount, 74 million Turkish Liras. Damage on police cars come second with 15.5 million liras. The destruction of municipality vehicles and reconditioning pavement also caused a 10 million lira loss each. Public buildings, the Justice Development Party’s (AKP) buildings, private cars, bus stations and traffic signs also received damage during the protests, the report reads.

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Op maandag 25 november 2013 15:06 schreef Slayage het volgende:

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http://www.hurriyetdailyn(...)=58496&NewsCatID=341

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Op dinsdag 26 november 2013 20:50 schreef Baklava95 het volgende:

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Die artikel vond ik echt bullshit en ik geloof er niets van.