[OT] What's happening here in Turkey...

[Friedrich F. Grohmann]

The caterpillars, what a marvelous story. I absolutely loved it. Profound
respect and best wishes for you, your family, and all your friends. May
sanity prevail.

All the best from the Far East,
Fritz


On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Ender Nafi Elekçioğlu
<endernafi at gmail.com>wrote:

> Simon, thank you for your advice
> but the police already hydrates us well, with high-pressure water canons
> :))
>
>
> About the media…
> You know, all newspapers and all tv's belong to some companies, holdings.
> And that particular companies do business with government.
> They are wired to government.
> Thus, they feel obliged to make proponent news.
>
> We, protesters, don't need common media.
> We have twitter, we have facebook, we have mail.
> I, for one, don't own even a tv!
> Unfortunately the public still watch tv and buy newspapers.
> And they - the majority of our society -  learn and follow
> the ongoing situation from these proponent news of common media.
> My whole family rejected me, yes, it happened. { that was the first days
> of the protests, now we're good, somewhat :) }
> They said: "If you're with that communist, anarchist mad dogs who burn
> cars and plunder shops, then you're not our son!"
> Because they don't know that we don't burn cars or plunder shops.
> We built libraries and grow orchards.
> No, but one, shop is plundered in Taksim.
> And last night, thanks to an outstanding turkish hacker group - the
> RedHack -,
> some documents were revealed which prove undoubtedly that provocateur
> government agents burnt that cars `_´
>
>
> And about the trees to save…
> Our fight is for freedom.
> Freedom of gypsies, armenians, rums {greeks of turkish nationality}, gays,
> cats, dogs, prostitutes, trees, kurds, caterpillars.
> We don't want the alevis {an islamic sect, a main division actually; alevi
> - sunni is like orthodox - catholic} pretend like they're sunnis.
> They should have the freedom to be themselves.
> I'm not alevi nor kurdish, btw.
> My ethnicity belong to the majority of turkey, sunni turkish.
> That doesn't change anything.
> Their cause is my cause.
>
> I was a soldier until recent years.
> I spent 16 year of my life in the army, I was a captain when I resigned.
> I fought at many places, many regions.
> When I was a young lieutenant, I put 4 of my soldiers to a forest road as
> guard.
> I ordered them not to allow any car to pass from that dirt road.
> I didn't tell the reason but apparently they soon found out and rumor
> spread.
> Then every other officers in my battalion mocked with me for months as
> Caterpillar Guardian.
> Yes, there was a caterpillar convoy at that road and I didn't want them
> get smashed by a damn jeep or truck.
> They had the right to live.
>
> Being powerful shouldn't give people the right to smash the weaker whether
> it's an animal or grass or another ethnicity.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> ~ Ender Nafi
>
> ~… together, we're smarter & stronger …~
>
>
>
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