i have never claimed to deliver an all-encompassing picture of the entirety of the protests here (as it turns out, i can only be in one place at a time, unfortunately). i am personally affected by these events. i am obviously siding with the protesters more than i do with tayyip and his police forces in this. but i have also sat down with and talked to policemen here more than once, and BIG SHOCK they are humans as well. i regard nobody i see / meet on the street as my enemy, whether they are police, protesters, akp supporters, circus performers or transsexual porn stars. i have never told a lie about what i have seen.
if anyone has a problem with what i'm doing they should either look the other way and go complain somewhere else, or come over here and spend a day (and night) in this. i will pay for the tea, either in kasımpaşa or in gazi mahallesi or anywhere else, your choice.
after that you should watch the show/speech tayyip pulled off today again, and compare his words to what you (would) have seen.
Is anyone going to Ankara to take photos there? BBC reported protests reaching this city too.
ankara has had protests all along. in fact, there were far fewer 'calm' nights there than in istanbul, the agencies have a lot of footage and pictures from there. other cities have also seen major protests.
also, if you still think this is simply about left against right, religious against secular, or old against young, you are either badly informed & relying on bad sources, or just deliberately ignorant.