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   b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 04:12:22 JST b9AcE

   "Council of Europe Congress: Mayor İmamoğlu’s detention is an assault on democracy; he must be released"
   https://www.coe.int/de/web/congress/-/council-of-europe-congress-mayor-imamo%C4%9Flu-s-detention-is-an-assault-on-democracy-he-must-be-released

   Note that the "Council of Europe" (CoE) is different from and predates the EU and the EU's "European Council" and the EU's "Council of the European Union" even though the EU decided to e.g. use CoE's flag as its own and other sources of conflation.

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     b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 19:31:26 JST b9AcE

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     The leader of the CHP, largest opposition party in Turkey, at the main İstanbul anti-coup protest told the Confederation of Revolutionary Trade Unions (DİSK, >300000 members) to go on a general strike whenever there is a need to, to "don't let them breathe!".

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     b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 19:31:27 JST b9AcE

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     "This is not a protest rally,
     this is not a town square protest rally.
     This is an act of defiance against fascism!"
     Özgür Özel,
     leader of the CHP,
     largest opposition party in Turkey,
     at the main İstanbul anti-coup protest (banned)

     I hope the CHP remembers that stance during the next elections too...
     (not an endorsement)

     Aral Balkan repeated this.
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     b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 19:31:28 JST b9AcE

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     Current Turkey anti-coup livestreams:
     İstanbul: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf7SGwne13A (same as previously)
     İzmir: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJKS-h-4sbI
     Ankara: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b3oqamVzIU

     Aral Balkan repeated this.
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     b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 19:31:30 JST b9AcE

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     In Ankara, anti-coup protesters danced in front of the TOMA, water cannon trucks.

     Again with the... NO respect for illegitimate authority. :-)

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     b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 19:31:31 JST b9AcE

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     Anti-coup protest this evening in Gaziantep, southern Turkey:

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     b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 19:31:33 JST b9AcE

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     Police brutality against anti-coup protest at the Galata Bridge of İstanbul, ~½h ago:

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     b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 19:31:34 JST b9AcE

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     Two İstanbul anti-coup protest videos:

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     b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 19:31:35 JST b9AcE

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     ──────
     I DON'T KNOW
     ABOUT YOU BUT
     I'M FEELING
     ✨REVOLUTION✨
     TONIGHT!
     ──────

     Pic from current anti-coup-protests in Turkey,
     by: Huseyin Aldemir/AP/AB

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 19:32:51 JST Aral Balkan

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     @b9AcE Gee maybe things would have been different if they’d stood up for the Kurds when their leader was jailed. 🤔

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     b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 18:29:28 JST b9AcE

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     "Turkey protest-linked arrests reach 1,418: Interior minister"
     AFP: https://www.lbcgroup.tv/news/middleeastnews/845433/turkey-protest-linked-arrests-reach-1418-interior-minister/en?src=rss&utm_source=TheWALL360&utm_medium=Rss-articles&utm_campaign=rss&utm_term=Rss

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     b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 18:29:29 JST b9AcE

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     Current livestream: Student protest (banned) in İstanbul, at Maçka Park:
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSja-dRcMmw

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     b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 18:29:30 JST b9AcE

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     İstanbul Technical University students on strike and protest too (banned), against Erdoğan's current coup.
     "There is no salvation alone, either all together or none of us."

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     b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 18:29:31 JST b9AcE

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     Hacettepe University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Ankara:

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     b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 18:29:32 JST b9AcE

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     From the second day of İYTE's academic strike/boycott, which they have said is not just for/against some politics persons but for democracy itself, for their stolen youths.

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     b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 18:29:33 JST b9AcE

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     İzmir Institute of Technology (İYTE) academic boycott/strike against Erdoğan's current coup, is today on their second day.

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     b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 18:29:34 JST b9AcE

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     On the current Turkey-countrywide "student protests and strikes escalate over İstanbul mayor’s arrest", Erdoğan's ongoing new coup
     https://medyanews.net/nationwide-student-protests-and-strikes-escalate-over-istanbul-mayors-arrest/

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     b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 18:29:35 JST b9AcE

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     A new summary article on how "Police crackdown intensifies on 6th night of Turkey protests over İstanbul mayor’s arrest":
     https://medyanews.net/police-crackdown-intensifies-on-6th-night-of-turkey-protests-over-istanbul-mayors-arrest/

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     b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 18:29:36 JST b9AcE

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     Academic boycott/strike at the Bilkent University, Ankara Governorate/Province of Turkey today:

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     b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 18:29:37 JST b9AcE

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     The total ban against all demo and sit-in protests, press conferences, petition signature collection, etc in the Ankara Governorate of Turkey which contains the capital city and more, was extended to April 1 by the Governor, who was not elected but appointed by Erdoğan's decree.

     The İzmir Governorate (west coast Turkey) extended the equivalent ban to March 29th.

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     b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 18:29:41 JST b9AcE

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     This is of course extremely dangerous, potentially lethal.
     By firing at such a high arc the canister will have a high impact force when landing and if it hits a person's head that would potentially be fatal.
     As it is also very clearly not aimed and they do generate a lot of heat while active, if hitting and penetrating someone's window or balcony door instead, that could likely set fire to the apartment or more.

     The instruction as designed, in general as I have been told, is that the canisters are supposed to be aimed downwards at such an angle that they impact the ground and bounce close to the ones being targeted, so that they will reach where intended but have drastically decreased kinetic energy when they may inadvertently impact some human and then probably only in less lethal legs area.
     Some do instead aim e.g. directly at people's heads, leading to loss of eyes, concussions, brain hemorrhages and in some cases deaths.

     Of course personally, my opinion is that everyone involved in making such should be shunned from decent society until they've demonstrated not being a threat to humanity anymore.

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     b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 18:29:43 JST b9AcE

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     Huh. So apparently police DO sometimes police police's excessive policing. İstanbul tonight.

     My bet would be the second cop will be reprimanded or fired for this and the other one promoted.

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     b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 18:29:44 JST b9AcE

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     Livestream in Ankara currently showing a standstill between a row of TOMA (water cannon trucks) and cops who came dressed to riot on the one side versus the people defending their fundamental human rights on the other:
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b3oqamVzIU

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     b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 18:29:58 JST b9AcE

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     "Seven journalists remanded in custody in Istanbul" for covering the current anti-coup protests, including AFP photojournalist
     https://anfenglish.com/freedom-of-the-press/seven-journalists-remanded-in-custody-in-istanbul-78576
     AFP: https://www.lbcgroup.tv/news/middleeastnews/845450/turkey-court-orders-jailing-of-seven-journalists-including-afp-photographer-ngo/en?src=rss&utm_source=TheWALL360&utm_medium=Rss-articles&utm_campaign=rss&utm_term=Rss

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     b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 18:29:59 JST b9AcE

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     Snippet from the general student protest (banned) in İstanbul right now against Erdoğan's currently ongoing coup, from the previously linked livestream: