By Anne Meador “We wanted to make sure that people leave this film with a sense of hope,” says director Serkan Koç at the U.S. premiere of his documentary The Beginning (Başlangıç) in Washington, DC on December 7. A film about the Turkish people’s uprising against the government of Tayyip […]
Taksim Square
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Sixteen days into the Turkish uprising last June, just when things were getting really ugly in Taksim Square, Davide Martello managed to stop the tear gas and water cannons with a baby grand. An enormous crowd paused to listen to a marathon thirteen-hour concert, a brief halt in the conflict. […]
Turkish Americans in Washington, DC rallied for a third time on Sunday, June 16 to show support for their countrymen protesting government repression in Istanbul. In the previous two days, hundreds of police raided Gezi Park and Taksim Square, firing tear gas, water cannons and rubber bullets, sending the people […]