You want to know whats happening...I'll tell you what's happening, i walked out of my flat the buses and public transportation were stopped due to the riots.The Gov. doesn't want people to join the protests, and to be honest I wasn't going to join but seeing as the gov. is doing every and anything they can to make life a living hell for the average joe here, i walked across the Bosporus bridge and went to Taksim. No one had rocks, knives, etc in there hands, of course there were a bad few who where trying to cause a bigger mess so we took care of them ourselves. But all in all we were a bunch who sat down with our friends in a park who read books, sang, and shared sandwiches.
I had countless friends who were sprayed by water canons for no reason other than just standing there and not bowing down to the "Sultan" of turkey. Like i mentioned earlier we didn't throw rocks or break windows or flip over cars and burn them, a peaceful protest is what we all wanted...After all we are all college students...
I learned one thing out of this whole mess, i remember seeing posts here about cops and the rights of citizens thinking man these guys are blowing it our of proportion. But they are right, because as soon as a cop gets an order he or she doesn't think about whether its right or wrong...So fuck the police.