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2013 protests in Turkey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia@Hussein
Okay, i am a brainwashed and a lair thanks
but do you want me to provide some video footage of these vandalizims or are you not interested in facts?
2.5 millions vandalizismsThe overall number of protesters involved was reported to be at least 2.5 million by the Turkish Interior Ministry
2013 protests in Turkey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2.5 millions vandalizisms
man your country is soooooooooooo dangerous ... LOL
İt's not that İ agree with Elturco but.2013 protests in Turkey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2.5 millions vandalizisms
man your country is soooooooooooo dangerous ... LOL
It's absolutely true, even sources here close to the border confirmed it. The Egyptian military is denying it right now, but their full of crap. The sources came from them anyway.
The Middle East's newest strongman
By Emad Mekay
Aug 8, '13
BERKELEY - Before an ultimatum to attack an anti-coup sit-in earlier this week, Egypt's new strongman and coup leader General Abdel Fatah al-Sisi received one of his warmest endorsements ever - something that might have been torn right out of the steamy pages of the Arabian Nights.
A female secular columnist for the liberal, privately-owned daily al-Masry al-Youm wrote in support of his planned action, literally offering herself as "a sex slave". If this sounds like a typical example of how depraved Arab tyrants such as Saddam Hussein and Hafez al-Assad strengthened their iron grip on their countries on the shoulders of compliant media and elites, it is because it is.
After all, this is the Middle East, where more than two years after the Arab Spring, the elite, military and local media remain the world's most skilled inventors of ruthless autocracies, from mad despots such as the deceased Colonel Muammar Gaddafi of Libya to brutal tribal monarchs such as the al-Saud royal family in Saudi Arabia and al-Nahian tribe in the United Arab Emirates.
It is through armies of similar cheerleaders who are willing to enslave and humiliate themselves that those rulers rise in tyranny and establish their unrivaled bloody hold on power. In Egypt, this is how pharaohs are made.
Hours after columnist Ghada Sherif offered her passionate physical backing, Sisi's troops launched an overnight assault on his opponents. By daybreak, at least 82 people had been killed and dozens more injured, with many receiving sniper bullets in the head and neck.
The "sex slave" episode also shows the great lengths Sisi's well-greased propaganda machine, backed by the treasures of the sprawling Egyptian military business complex and the riches of the country's elite, will go to to catapult the 58-year old Sisi, or Super-Sisi as his fans call him, as Egypt's savior and next leader.
Sisi is backed by Egypt's self-styled liberals, secularists and leaders of the Christian Orthodox minority who were routed and humiliated six consecutive times in fair and democratic elections at the hands of campaign-savvy Islamists during the country's two-and-half year brush with democracy.
For them, tanks, assault rifles and military brass have become the only burrow they could ever dig to get close to office. To that end, they are showing utter disregard of law, human rights and respect for democracy.
As Sisi's forces were slaughtering dozens of people and injuring many more in their overnight attack outside the Rabaa Mosque in Cairo Saturday morning, Pope Tawadros, leader of the country's five million Christian Coptic minority, who detests Islamist parties, jubilantly tweeted: "Thank you to Egypt's great military and its wonderful police force, for opening the doors of hope."
Tawadros repeated "thank you" six times in his post.
And despite the bloodshed at the hands of Sisi's military and police, the state-run al-Ahram newspaper made splashing headlines of a report that one Egyptian man in the Red Sea city of Suez named his newborn child "Sisi".
So thirsty for legitimacy and public acceptance of their coup outside of their supporters, the top commander of Egypt's Third Army, who is supposedly busy fighting terrorism in Sinai, took time off to pay the parents a visit and hand them a reward for naming the new baby after the coup's leader's highly uncommon name. As expected, cameras were there to take pictures.
The Facebook page of the Egyptian military's propaganda arm, the Morale Affairs, and other sympathetic Facebook pages widely believed to be run by intelligence officers entrusted with peddling Sisi to the public are lavishing pictures of tough, muscular and mustached officers in camouflaged uniforms, stamping a drooling kiss on portraits of Sisi.
The image-building gets even more ridiculous with attempts to create unsubstantiated heroic tales for Sisi. A military Facebook page popular with Sisi's fans and other obedient newspapers claimed that the US Fifth Fleet was sent to Egypt's shores last week to intervene in the turmoil only to be sternly told off by "Sisi the brave".
The Americans tucked their tails between their legs and left the Mediterranean after Sisi's thunderous warning, so the fable goes.
"Sisi threatened to annihilate the US Fleet," declared al-Nahar newspaper of the story.
The signs are unmistakable. Such folk tales were a hallmark of Gaddafi's 40-year rule, with his media inventing gallant military adventures for the consumption of gullible Libyans in a bid to legitimize his reign.
Over the past month, Sisi had displayed other megalomaniac traits a la Gaddafi, the touchstone of despotic tyranny in the region, who had a penchant for full military uniforms, sunglasses and extravagant medals. Sisi gave his last speech in identical dark eye shades, a full ornamental cap and a chest full of colorful medals.
But more ominously are the signs of how Sisi is concentrating power for his rule. Egyptian prisons are filling up fast. Media outlets critical of the military are shuttered. Coup opponents face threats of confiscating their property and hurriedly cooked up criminal charges. Ousted president Mohammed Morsi himself was held incommunicado for nearly a month before far-fetched accusations of espionage for the Palestinian group, Hamas, were conjured up.
Editors from the privately owned pro-coup Shorouk newspapers banned articles by two writers, Wael Kandil and Ahmed Mansour, for questioning the coup leader's ability to bring stability to Egypt. One of them, Kandil, later quipped that the incident made Hosni Mubarak sound like an angel as none of his harsh columns were censored before.
Worse, General Sisi disbanded the elected Shura Council, revoked the constitution agreed upon by a whopping 64 percent vote in fair elections, and re-instated officers of the country's repressive secret police, the country's most hated and feared institution, who were fired after the January 25, 2011 uprising against Mubarak for human rights abuses.
The secret police have powers to censor the media, screen applicants for government jobs, arrest opponents and hunt down dissidents with complete impunity.
Sisi's reach hasn't spared ordinary Egyptians either. Makeshift checkpoints manned by heavily armed joint police and military units pepper Egypt's streets, a scene not witnessed since the bloody era of Sisi's role-model, former Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser in the 1950s and 1960s.
Bearded men and women who choose the Islamic covering are stopped, arrested or abused based on their visible religious orientation. Those who are not visibly religious complain about the maltreatment at checkpoints and the return of non-optional bribes to traffic officers.
The rhetoric from the private media, owned by the country's wealthy elite classes and members of the minority Christian Coptic church who both support Sisi, routinely encourage crackdowns against opponents. Examples include urging Sisi to cut off water and electricity from opposition sit-ins, flooding the sit-ins with sewage, and calls to shoot at "just their legs", while all along showing fanatical devotion for their new Pharaoh, Sisi the Savior.
But nobody has yet matched Sherif's offer. "Sisi, all you have to do is just wink," the liberal writer titled her column.
"He is a man that Egyptians are infatuated with. If he wants to take four wives, then we are at his bidding. If he wants just a sex slave, by God, we'll not be hard to get either."
Emad Mekay is a John S Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. He worked for The New York Times, Bloomberg News and Inter Press Service in the Middle East. He is the founder of America In Arabic News Agency. He covered most of the initial protests of the Arab Spring for The International Herald Tribune and for Inter Press Service.
(Inter Press Service)
Morsi supporters are unstoppable and General Sisi is like Netanyahu or Gaddafi, I think, he should leave immediately.
Here's good explanation.
Everyone is using the same source, Ashraf Solaem.
He released a statement to the associated press that states the following News from The Associated Press
He then released a contradictory statement to Masrawy http://beta.masrawy.com/News/details/2013/8/9/40695/%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B7%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%B1%D9%8A-%D9%81%D8%AC%D8%B1-%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%AF%D8%A9-%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AE-%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%81%D8%AD-%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B7%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A
This source isn't even in the Sinai.
The military has denied any Israeli strikes and has no reason to request any as it has fighter aircraft patrolling which can be used. The Egyptian military doesn't have a history with cooperating with Israel militarily nor will it.
well mr Erdogan fan boyİt's not that İ agree with Elturco but.
How can the number of 2,5 million be in context with what elturco said?
He said that the current jailed guys from the gezi protestst were the protesters that used violence in their demonstration.
You come with a useless comment of 2,5 million vandalizers. İf there are currently 2,5 million gezi protesters jailed your right.
But if there are no 2,5 million jailed protesters' then you comment is as useless as you.
Turkish police arrest 25 people for using social media to call for protest | World news | The GuardianDozens have been injured and more than 1,700 people arrested in 235 demonstrations that have flared up in 67 cities across the vast nation.
Turkish police arrest 25 people for using social media to call for protest
who are you gazawi to insult Egyptian armed forces ? you are just sad you cant steal from Egypt any moreIt's absolutely true, even sources here close to the border confirmed it. The Egyptian military is denying it right now, but their full of crap. The sources came from them anyway.
Bull, there were 5 different sources and Egypt definitely does and has cooperated with the Israeli military.
The military denied it yet claimed they conducted the strike with their helicopters yet at the same time claim they went to check the scene were the explosions took place. It's closer to the Israeli border in which israel requested or in coordination with israel allowed israel to conduct the strike due to them believing it was an imminent threat to their country.
They have been getting intelligence from israel and israel has been giving intelligence to them for a while and telling them to work in the Sinai.
Quit lying dumbass, everyone knows this by now. You and your comrades in the Egyptian military sound really funny with their denials. They're full of $hit just as you are.
There's truth to many things you say except when it comes down to military action against protesters and in the Sinai with israel.