<story><title>Evidence of Turkish state violence in pictures</title><url>http://roarmag.org/2013/06/explicit-evidence-of-turkish-police-brutality-in-pictures/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Jun8</author><text>Just to give you a glimpse of better things than saddening photos of police brutality, here is what people did at the Gezi Park in the past 2-3 days:&lt;p&gt;* An impromptu library was built, here are some photos: &lt;a href=&quot;http://gezikutuphanesi.blogspot.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://gezikutuphanesi.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt; (scroll down) with books donated by people and many publishers.&lt;p&gt;* Women doing yoga at Gezi Park: &lt;a href=&quot;http://imgur.com/3kubMll?tags&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://imgur.com/3kubMll?tags&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://imgur.com/3kubMll?tags&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://imgur.com/3kubMll?tags&lt;/a&gt; (FYI, it is &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; common to see people, let alone young women, doing yoga in public parks in Istanbul!)&lt;p&gt;* A number of orchestras giving a classical concert at Gezi: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/dutchrevolution/posts/580100478677437&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://www.facebook.com/dutchrevolution/posts/5801004786774...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I am left speechless by these events, never seen anything like this in any protest in Istanbul.&lt;p&gt;And there has many, many really funny graffiti and signs, here&apos;s an example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151695543624468&amp;#38;set=a.10150304191624468.382994.665339467&amp;#38;type=1&amp;#38;ref=nf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151695543624468&amp;#3...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Evidence of Turkish state violence in pictures</title><url>http://roarmag.org/2013/06/explicit-evidence-of-turkish-police-brutality-in-pictures/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>Shocking pictures.&lt;p&gt;This is converging with alarming speed on an all out confrontation. Turkey is a very beautiful country balancing on the Europe-Asia divide with a lot of internal pressure built up over a long time. If the government keeps pushing like this it will likely reap a lot more than they&apos;ve bargained for.&lt;p&gt;The Turks that I&apos;ve known in my life are tremendously proud and very hard working people, push enough of them around for long enough and all that energy will be directed back at the one doing the pushing.&lt;p&gt;I really hope that the Turkish government will read the writing on the wall and will change course, if they don&apos;t do that then I fear that a lot more lives will be lost.</text></comment>