Istanbul burning – news from a friend

Dear Sabine,
I really can’t decide what to write. There’s so much going on here. There’s so much police violence, there’s so much black propaganda here. People are taken under custody at will. People are taken away even from their houses, for what they have written on the internet, on social media. What I am writing to you at the moment probably will be read by the police, before you read it. They use cannon balls containing poisonous water. They use it even to the hospitals. They attack and destroy tiny medical stations. People escape to hotels in a hurry to save their lives but police force attacks the hotels too and use some kind of gas (I am almost sure it’s not simple tear gas) inside the hotels. They shoot at the houses with gas bombs. Volunteer doctors are taken under custody too. Investigation is on the run for the volunteering doctors. Patients are pulled away from stretchers for detention. While these are happening, the PM is relentlessly lying, making propaganda, accusing resisting people. He is forcing religious sensitivity of people to provoke them against the resisters. Millions are on the streets every evening, every night in various cities but the mainstream press (a part of government propaganda) ignores all of these.
To summarise, we are not safe at home, on the streets or at the hospitals. Although there’s extreme violence, brutality going on in every way, we are still resisting and will keep on resisting in a peaceful manner. Although they threaten us, hurt us, injure us, kill us; we will hurt no one, not intentionally.
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