Seems the peasents are revolting. Thats what you get when you try to impose religious laws on the nation.

Time for the Turkish Army to take control of the situation - Turkish Government want to change Turkey into a strict Islamic State - They think they can impose there will against the People of Turkey - Time for Turkey Army to get rid of this government and be on th side of the Turkish People

Mitch Fatouros, author of "Greek American Pimps, Charirty Corrupted by Politics, Lobbies & Criminal Enterprises," available at amazon.com. While a war front with Syria became near certain, the Taksim Square protests shifted the conflict to an area occupied by nearly 15,000,000 Turks, bordering with two countries that have traditionally laid historic claims on the Ottoman Empire's successor: Bulgaria and Greece. Both Orthodox Christian countries were set against each other by the Ottomans through the creation of the Bulgarian Exarchate. They have remained suspicious of each other, in spite of them becoming partners in the European Union. Both countries have Turkish-speaking Islamic populations on their borders with Turkey, while Turkey has systematically purged the Orthodox Christians of old-Constantinople through genocide and forced expulsion, including the 1955 Pogrom. Turkey's history of expulsion and prosecution has not been forgotten by Greeks and Bulgarians. Both countries have ultra nationalist parties with mirroring agendas: Golden Dawn and Attack, respectively. Both parties have taken anti-Turkish positions and want to impose their own purification. Meanwhile, both Bulgaria and Greece border with FYROM, a new country manipulated by Turkey and despised by their neighbors for FYROM's territorial rhetoric. All that it will take now is a proverbial lit match for the fuse to catch fire. Hopefully, the Taksim demonstrations were not it. Otherwise, the always shifting Balkan map is about to be redrawn radically once again, a couple of decades after the dissolution of Yugoslavia. And that would only mean war and more ethnic cleansing.

... Wasn't Erdogan the one who hailed the Arab Spring as a great step forward? Looks like the Arab Spring has morphed into the Moslem Spring and has reached Turkey. How you likin' it now, Erdogan? The voices of liberation Islamic theology may have been stilled in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and other places, but I'm not sure that Turkey will follow suit. In fact, I'm pretty sure that Turkey will NOT follow suit. It would appear that the overwhelming majority of the Turkish people are not in favor of Islamic rule and Sharia law. That's some pretty ruthless steps Erdogan has taken to quell the protests. On the bright side, should Israel ever feel called upon to quell ersatz "Palestinians" engaging in protests using similar measures, Erdogan is really going to have to keep his big mouth wide shut. I derive a certain amount of satisfaction from that.

1 all protestors are educated people not peasants, thre is apicture on top that might help you :) 2 army rises and takes control in undemocratic countries, coups are thing of past in turkey 3 that is highly exaggerated if erdoğan stops his obsession with alcohol, building mosque on taksim square and retreats from his plans then next week everything will be same old , but i doubt that since hes is man of ego and belives his alcohol ban is commanded by koran i think this may end bad for him in elections, turks are really stuck between undemocratic non progressive party of chp and islamists which althou succesfull compared to chp in both fields are obsessed with religion maybe this protests will show the need of a social democrat party that holds all citizens and whole country first

Time to protest against Erdogan's warcrimes and attempted genocide. Does it sound familiar Erdogan?

Erdogan sees pink when it is really red.

The most nervous and furious PM Turkey ever had , is trying now to distribute sleeping pills to the people. "All this will be overcome", he says. Sleep Turkey sleep. Your Big Brother wishes you to sleep now.

That the reason the protest began, was because Erdo-wrong had granted big money building contracters to destroy a beautiful park full of 100 year old trees just so a big money corporation could build yet another shopping mall. So, a small group of people with their children in tow stood against the tractors. The police came and began to tear gas and pepper spray them. More people joined in, till eventually it is what you see today. The blogger said the gas and pepper spray is so thick, it has killed stray dogs and cats on the streets and some people have been permanatly blinded. This blogger said there is a complete media black out by the government about the true reason for this protest. Erdogan is lying through his teeth for big money. He also wants to attack Syria, and the people of Turkey do not want it. This blogger said the only way they can get the truth out is by blog and face book.

The big money corporation you are talking about is Saudi, and Erdogan is getting a cut. The reason for his meddling in Syria is because the Saudis told him if he helps them, he will be a big man. Face it: Erdogan was paid to sell out Turkey for Arab interests

There are tens - even hundreds - of thousands of people of all ages participating in this. Even people who stay home are supporting it by banging pots and pans, turning lights on and off, taking videos of police atrocities and brutality and publishing ghem I'm social media. This is a pure people's movement. Just like every megalo maniac dictator Erdogan can not understand it.

Only yesterday while Izmir was burning and the AKP youth arms leader was leading the police to torture protestors in Mustabey caddesi (he is photographed in blue shirt by my relative) Erdogan dared the unhappy people - instead of being conceliatory- by asserting to F. altayli that he will build the shopping mall, and the mosque to Taksim. The arrow has left the bow. Lets see how close it will hit the target.

To see videos and photos see the Gencligini ve cocuklugunu alsancakta gecirenler Izmir Pages in Facebook. Brave people are documenting events and police brutality

i know and many more happened, erdoğan is making abig mistake by antogonizing citizens and their rightfull demands needles to say his rants about akm and mosqs makes people more furious he hast to stop or things will get worse for him

Turkey is an extremely complex country and by no means monolithic. I'd be very careful before drawing conclusions about what's happening in Turkey. I'm not questioning the involvement of the average Joe in the streets - but there are a lot of players in Turkey and sometimes these players maybe cooperating when they appear to be set against each other and vice versa. The recently-discovered by the West Islamist resurrection in Turkey has been brewing since the '50s and was in fact visible since the '80s - '90s in Turkish political life. It gets better - the lid was lifted by the Kemalists themselves, when they realized that the idea of Turkishness, so actively promoted as the building block of a modern secular Republic by Mustafa Kemal, was actually losing traction amongst the culturally disparate groups of the left-overs of the Ottoman empire. Their solution: a final 'cleansing' of difficult-to-assimilate groups (Greeks, Jews Armenians) and the amalgamation of a moderate Islam with Kemalism which would provide the glue for holding the country together and then the avenue upon which the country's sphere of influence would be expanded to the old Ottoman sphere of influence, from Iran to the Adriatic and from the Caucasus to the Sudan. It didn't exactly go according to plan for the Kemalists, as the Islamists bade their time and -after a couple of abortive starts- were able to become the leading partner in this alliance. Anyway, the point is that Turkey is incredibly complex and incredibly nuanced. There are no clear lines in the sand and where doors seems to be bricked up, back-doors are opened. Taking anything emanating from Turkey at face value would be a mistake.

bet you wish you still had your army to check the AKP. doh!

Erdogan forgot that people want FREEEEDDDOOOMMM, not to be told what to do based on someone elses beliefs.

I couldnt care less.... Thats what you get by getting in Israels face...it comes back to bite you in the ass. As for the remaining Jews in Turkey...get out before you become a smoked Turkey.

remember that Hashem is ALWAYS with us.

So far, Erdogan has butchered 4 people. Will Erdogan pay compensation to their families? Or does compensation only go to IHH terrorists who work for Erdogan?

do you have any idea of democracy? ballot box is the answer not army

hope they hang him..payback for the mavi mamara

wher did you get that info? nobody died as far as i know

1., Democracy is not simply ballot box. In a democracy the winners must respect the rights of the minorities that did not vote for them. In Turkey that minority is at least 40% of the voters which is huge. After over 10 years of this government interfering with their life style from education to what they drink or the color of their lipstick they are fed up bicak kemige dayandi. Remember that Nazis also were elected in Germany. Erdogan was driving that bus called democracy too fast lately and now it is out of control, anytime can hit a wall. 2. So far the Turkish media is not reporting the truth. However social media has many videos and photos taken by ordinary people. I have seen a photo taken by a relative of mine in Alsancak Izmir where a group of police are beating a youth tgether with a blue shirted young man who happens to be the AKP genclik kollari baskani. There are very badly injured people in hospitals (maybe dead but not reported) and even the medical staff doctors and nurses trying to help are being detained. 3. In Izmir my almost 80 year old female relative spent one night in the bath room of her apartment because of pepper gas was all over her living room and bedroom. 4. I was at elementary school in 1960. I can tell you that these are much intense then the May 27 incidents. At a time like that Erdogan went on TV re asserting that he would build the mall and mosque at Taksim just pouring gasoline on top of the fire.

PM erdogan is a dictator, who will put Turket back to times it was a sick man of Europe. He may succeed because the intellectually most stupid par of people, 60 % of population with IQ 80, backs him in elections.

It seems people are misunderstanding what is going on in Turkey. These are not simply protests--this is a clash between secular and religious Turks. Erdogan wants to build symbols of Islamic oppression in Taksim Square, which is the heart of secular Turkish society. Instead of the usual Sunni vs. Shia violence we're seeing Islamic vs secular violence.