IN BERLIN ON MAY 4, WE ARE MARCHING TO PROTEST THE BASELESS
CONVICTIONS OF OSMAN KAVALA AND SEVEN HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS IN TURKEY
“Taksim everywhere, resistance everywhere!”
In the summer of 2013, Turkey was the scene of the most populated protests in its history. That summer, Erdoğan’s government announced its decision to build a shopping mall in Taksim Gezi Park in central Istanbul and began cutting down trees to do it one night. That night, first environmentalist youths, then local residents, later the people of Istanbul flocked to the park to protect the trees.
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