JohnnyAdam – Krew RT
telah terperangkap dalam gas pemedih mata dan melapor kepada jisim perhimpunan
anti-kerajaan di Taksim Square, Istanbul. Polis telah mula menyuraikan penunjuk
perasaan, laporan RT Sarah Firth .
Pertempuran
telah berlaku selama lebih 1 jam, dengan polis menggunakan meriam air untuk
menyuraikan orang ramai yang berkumpul untuk menyuarakan kemarahan mereka
terhadap tindakan kerajaan, laporan Firth dari laman ini. Ini datang di
tengah-tengah berterusan berprofil tinggi skandal rasuah
RT Crew Caught up in tear gas in Istanbul as
police
Crack down On anti-govt protest . . .
An RT
crew has been caught up in tear gas while reporting on a mass anti-government
rally in Istanbul’s Taksim Square. Police have started dispersing the
protesters, reports RT's Sarah Firth.
Clashes
have been taking place for over an hour, with police using water cannons to
disperse the crowd which gathered to voice their anger against the government’s
actions, Firth reports from the site. This comes amid an ongoing high-profile
corruption scandal.
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“Ia amat
simbolik kemarahan kita telah melihat bahawa telah membina sejak beberapa hari
terakhir,” kata beliau. “Cebisan batu dan marmar di mana-mana anda bleh meli-hatnya,”
dengan penunjuk perasaan membaling ianya pada pegawai-pegawai penguat-kuasa
undang-undang.
Menurut
posting di Twitter, polis diikuti penunjuk perasaan ke jalan-raya dan menembak
peluru getah, mendorong mereka untuk bertindak balas dengan gelas kosong. Seorang
wartawan untuk akhbar Radikal liberal Turki “telah ditembak oleh peluru getah,”
tetapi walaupun disakiti “berani terus melaporkan” dari Taksim Square.
“It's
very symbolic of the anger we've seen that has been building over the last
couple of days,” she says. “Bits of rock and marble are everywhere you look,”
with protesters throwing them at law enforcement officers.
According
to posts on Twitter, police followed protesters into side streets and fired
rubber bullets, prompting them to respond with empty glasses. A reporter for
Turkey's liberal Radikal newspaper “was shot by a rubber bullet,” but despite
being hurt “bravely keeps on reporting” from Taksim Square.
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Banyak
ambulans dan trak bomba telah dilihat memasuki jalan pejalan kaki yang berikut
tindakan keras itu, menurut Hurriyet Daily News. Beberapa penunjuk perasaan melem-parkan
bunga api pada polis rusuhan.
Hurriyet
mengatakan bahawa penunjuk perasaan berkumpul pada ikon Taksim Square di
Istanbul “apabila panggilan yang disebarkan melalui media sosial.”
Mereka
melaungkan “Di mana-mana rasuah, di mana-mana rasuah,”yang mengingatkan moto
bantahan Gezi Park awal tahun ini. Slogan mereka protes adalah “Di mana-mana
Taksim, di mana-mana rintangan.”
“Nombor
bijak bagi penunjuk perasaan, kita begitu jauh melihat orang ramai yang lebih
kecil daripada apa yang dilihat pada musim panas,” laporan Firth RT ini.
Krisis
ini meletus sejak rasuah siasatan utama pada 17 Disember, yang membawa kepada
perletakan jawatan 3 menteri dan penahanan anak-anak mereka - yang didakwa
terlibat dalam skim rasuah. Ia diikuti oleh rombakan kerajaan utama. Pada hari
Rabu, Tayyip Erdogan digantikan 10 daripada 26 menteri kabinet beliau.
Hasil
daripada skandal itu, lira Turki mencapai nilai terendah dalam lebih daripada 3
bulan, mencapai level rendah berbanding euro dan dolar. Sementara itu, pasaran
saham Istanbul jatuh sebanyak 2.3 % peratus.
Many
ambulances and fire trucks were seen entering the pedestrian road following the
crackdown, according to Hurriyet Daily News. Some of the protesters hurled
fireworks at riot police.
Hurriyet
says that protesters gathered on Istanbul’s iconic Taksim Square “upon a call
that spread via social media.”
They
chanted “Everywhere bribery, everywhere corruption,” which is reminiscent of
the motto of the Gezi Park protests earlier this year. The slogan of those
protests was “Everywhere Taksim, everywhere resistance.”
“Numbers
wise for protestors, we are so far seeing a much smaller crowd than what was
seen in the summer,” reports RT’s Firth.
The
crisis erupted over the major graft probe on December 17, which led to the
resignation of three ministers and the detention of their sons – who were
allegedly involved in corruption schemes. It was followed by a major government
reshuffle. On Wednesday, Tayyip Erdogan replaced ten out of 26 ministers in his
cabinet.
As a
result of the scandal, the Turkish lira reached its lowest value in more than
three months, achieving record lows against the euro and the dollar. Meanwhile,
the Istanbul stock market fell by 2.3 percent.
Protestor melindungi dirinya sebagai bunga api
meletup di Istiklal Avenue pada 27 Disember, 2013, semasa pertempuran antara
polis penunjuk perasaan dan Turki. (AFP Photo/Bulent Kilic - think IN pictures
@1WORLD Community)
Penunjuk perasaan melarikan diri dari meriam air di
Istiklal Avenue pada 27 Disember, 2013, semasa pertempuran antara polis
penunjuk perasaan dan Turki. (AFP Photo/Bulent Kilic - think IN pictures @1WORLD Community)
Polis turkish tembak peluru getah terhadap penunjuk
perasaan di Istiklal Avenue pada 27 Disember, 2013, semasa pertempuran antara
polis penunjuk perasaan dan Turki. (AFP Photo/Bulent Kilic - think IN
pictures @1WORLD Community)
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