100 pictures from the last two days in istanbul

Great work Simon!

Please get back healthy and un-arrested. I do not want to think about turkish jails.
 
Don't worry. If Simon gets arrested, we will burn to that jail to the ground and get him out of there. He is RFF's escrow to us :)
 
SimonSawSunlight said:
i have been using a gasmask since yesterday, no helmet though. if this goes on, i will see if i can find one.
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Simon, excellent work as always but do take care of your lungs! Apparently where the police are out of tear gas they're instead using toxic distress signal gas normally used to signal military aircraft (among other things I suppose)!

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jonmanjiro said:
Simon, excellent work as always but do take care of your lungs! Apparently where the police are out of tear gas they're instead using toxic distress signal gas normally used to signal military aircraft (among other things I suppose)!

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Out of teargas?

:D
 
Simon and other RFF members, stay safe and keep up the great work. It's a shame (but not surprising) as to the poor coverage by much of the MSM about this. Keep doing what you can to shine light on the subject.
 
huddy said:
Simon and other RFF members, stay safe and keep up the great work. It's a shame (but not surprising) as to the poor coverage by much of the MSM about this. Keep doing what you can to shine light on the subject.
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Dunno. It surprises me. But then, I suppose I pay more attention to non-US and non EU news that most people. But Istanbul is in Europe, dammit.

As a Tibetan friend of mine said about the lack of coverage of Tibetan news, "Well, as far as they're concerned, what little yellow men do to each other doesn't matter very much." His words, note, not mine: all too often, a fair assessment of Western media. Presumably Turks are honorary "little yellow men".

Cheers,

R.
 
I think that's the case. The chaps in the Turkish shop opposite my work were watching CNN Turk with worried expressions. It was a talking head, so I couldn't say what was being discussed, but I suspect that the coverage of events is slim.
 
huddy said:
Simon and other RFF members, stay safe and keep up the great work. It's a shame (but not surprising) as to the poor coverage by much of the MSM about this. Keep doing what you can to shine light on the subject.
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Anyone who wants can help.

Get the link to the ZIP-file from the original post and mail the link to it off to as many MSM as you can. It may take some time before they are switching on and information pouring in in their mailboxes might kickstart them.
 
SimonSawSunlight said:
a lot seems to be left out by the international media, while turkish media is just plain ridiculous.
it has been calm this morning but that might change later in the afternoon. i am going back to taksim now.
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Just so you know, it is being mentioned over here (in Frons), and at least this evening I saw a French correspondent reporting right from the middle of the mess, and has said pretty much what you stated earlier, that the police is shooting tear-gas, but no detail into anything else you've said (that they are deliberately aiming the way they're aiming, and are using stuff other than teargas).

I forgot if it was Canal+/iTele or France 2.

Anyway, if you see a girl telkin wis a French axont wis a microphone, and a cameraman, you may want to tell her to follow you. The footage was pretty generic in the sense that police are doing "routine" riot control, mixed with interview blurbs from young people explaining that they have nothing against the police, but the government as this is the culmination of many things piling up.

France 2 is pretty "liberal" when it comes to sticking it to censorship (at least compared to most other anglosaxon TV news outlets I've had the chance to experience) when it comes to international issues, so they may really want to get to "the bottom of it". They've been doing a lot of rather risky yet actual journalism covering the rebels in Syria --and also getting the establishment's take on it.

BTW, got a copy of the zip file. Just in case.
 
Many great photos in the zip-file in the original post, get the file and see them, people.

There was an interesting item in the Dutch 8 o'clock news, showing that only a mile from the Taksim square people still are very favorable of Erdogan.

As I read in a tweet today: It's time that Erdogan should realize he does not have one much-loved child, but a second one too that is also deserving of his love. Meaning, Erdogan caters for his voters (50% in the last elections) and neglects the other half of the country completely. Those pictures Simon posted show that some people currently aren't loved too much by authorities. And you folks really should download them to see what great shots Simon took and how much risk he ran to get them.

The essence of photo journalism, regardless of truths, political or otherwise. Admiration and gratitude are in order, even if this isn't your (or my) specific battle!
 
Thanks for posting these Simon, great work, be safe.

There was a rally in Trafalgar Square last night, loud but not vast, and many more police than press attending.

I think people are certainly talking about the Turkish events here, and not just people from the large Turkish community. Seems a growing concern.

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