Istanbul is pretty modern but this is what most are trying to defend, the PM is trying to make shove his islamic law down our throats, he keeps stating that he is PRO-secular but actually he isn't...I'm a muslim, but i'm not "his" type of muslim...There are people here that actually kiss your ass if your the part of AKP, but it's so weird. What i'm trying to say is, i grew up in the states and have been here for a few years. This country is really not like any other country i have ever seen. One street you'll see belly dancers, people having a good time drinking, talking and the usual fun...And go two blocks down you'll hear extremists praying in their homes. Before AKP we were even more secular and right now most want that back, but these guys have infiltrated every level of government. There are a dozen high positioned military officials who are jailed because they were believed to try and perform a Coup'd'eta on AKP in 2007-2008.
He has made sure to censor the media as well because while the people are protesting we have penguin documentaries playing on T.V. Most people here seem to know about the State Ataturk created, we need that back. Most see it as highly improbably for a country like Turkey to become ruled under sharia law but you would not believe the latest laws that passed our parliament, there are congressmen in the parliament who are there just to keep their mouths shut and give a yes vote to everything AKP decides. I did my best to keep away from the politics in this country but this is way too much to handle. I mean the Police brutality here and how your able to bribe your way out of problems has really become just incredibly shocking. The way the PM demeans his own citizens is shocking, The Prime Minister spoke today and said that we are (the protesters) are just a bunch of plunderers and should be hung from the trees that we were trying to protect in the first place. It's not about just the trees anymore this thing has taken a complete different life of it's own, We believe Erdogan has to go...We will sit in parks, on roads, he could pepper spray us to death....Those people you see damaging things and ripping out stones from the ground are not the people of Istanbul, those provocateurs are maybe 100 out of 15,000 peaceful protestors, they are the types that just come to ruin things. Don't believe your media either i mean ours is horrible, but yours isn't exactly all rainbows and butterflies either :ticking:
n8800 is the only one with a foot on the ground.
