Erdogan government is an oppressive government, with increasing authoritarian and antidemocratic politics, and his supporters include a lot of Islamic organizations, comprising elements of Al Kaida, Hizbullah and other salafist organizations and they all have strong antisemitic tone. This government recently released all the members of Islamic terrorist organizations, who aggressively killed many innocent people. So watch out other comments, here, mainly many supporters of the government, are here to just make a false impression of peaceful environmental demonstrations, violently oppressed.
Be careful. some supporters of the government, are even forming Nazi SS style mobs to attack demonstrating families. People like @cup, are cleverly embedded opinion makers, who are there to hide the authoritarian, regime. Erdogan yesterday called, Twitter a curse and social media an enemy. So be careful about commenters here.
With all due respect, cup is a long time, respected member of this community. You are a new member who has only ever posted this comment. Is it really appropriate of accusing somebody of being a "cleverly embedded opinion maker" when you come across as exactly that, and they do not?
Your comment is full of emotionally sensational discourse, and very short on data or sources to support it.
Furthermore, you attack a fellow HNer (@cup) and brand him a "Nazi" for sharing sensible argument, instead of addressing the points he makes.
The recent discussions around Turkey on HN, and the fact that comments like yours are getting upvoted, speaks heaps of the direction this site is heading towards.
> Oversimplified translations is; AKP members are given police uniforms to go beat up protesters.
And I'm supposed to take this at face value, without this being corroborated by different news outlets? For all I know, the people from both sides of this matter are trying to social engineer me into being on their side. I am not on either's side.
I am not asking you to believe its authenticity. I was just pointing out to an example of the events he was referring to when he said Nazi. You said he called @cup a Nazi, that is not true.
If the media had done their job and covered the protest when it started getting big, or when the tear gas started flowing, I'd understand.
However, there was a near blackout for the first few DAYS of the protest and the only news was social media. I, too, have friends in Istanbul and have been given first hand accounts. The number of apolitical members of this protest are staggering. As a friend said, the generation was brought up to be apolitical after their parents had grown up in an over-politicized and protest-heavy culture that led to the coup and horror stories of abuse of political prisoners.
(BTW, everyone I've talked to only decided to go out after the tear gassing had been started; the demonstration was in support of the demonstration rather than the original Gezi Parki protest.)
Be careful. some supporters of the government, are even forming Nazi SS style mobs to attack demonstrating families. People like @cup, are cleverly embedded opinion makers, who are there to hide the authoritarian, regime. Erdogan yesterday called, Twitter a curse and social media an enemy. So be careful about commenters here.