Hello Koray
Thanks for the news.
The reason I asked for the news was to read them on a local community based
radio, for " Third World" program. As you know, the type of news and its
content when released from people is very different from the news coming
>from the " media".
Please do not hesitate to send some more news to me. You are welcome to use
my direct e.m. address: atefeho@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Atefeh
At 12:25 PM 7/31/96 +0400, Koray Caliskan wrote:
>
>Dear Atefeh and list members,
>
>Atefeh has asked me to inform her/him about recent info on resistence
>movements. I will never hesitate to inform my fellows about both the
>power and the resistence events but I think all the members of this list
>would like to have info from news etc. BUT nevertheless I will send a
>very interesting (-disgusting) example.
>
> A CASE On the Resistence to Resistence: TURKEY
>
> I- Last month, during the party congress of Democracy Party of
>Peoples (HADEP) which supports political rights of Kurdish minority in
>Turkey, two young men has lifted down the Turkish flag. All the TV news
>has worked on this issue; the result was a huge nationalistic wave that
>is cristalized on the flags sticked on the buildings, windows etc.
> II- Last week, Some extremist people has fired two public busses to
>protest the insensibilty of government. It was this news, instead of the
>hunger strikes, which gained more rating in TV's.
>
> These two events made possible government to argue that all the
>people attending to demonstrations were terrorists and perfidious. It was
>these two events that were used to delegitimize the raison d'etre of
>demonstrations
>
>The Case:
>
> Last week, 3000 people were in the Sultanahmet square to protest
>the government. They were willing to give a letter to the Court in order
>to accuse the minister of justice for his responsibility in the deaths of
>5 people. (now 13). It was a great example of a mass 'resistence'.
> The counter-resistence came from the government. It was not a
>violent attack by police, but a really reprobate strategy: There were
>tens of flags around that can easily be lifted down by demonstrations.
>And a cleaned, empty public bus was parked at the center of the square
>waiting to be crashed down and burned.
> We were avare of provocation, so circulated the intention of
>these attempts to provacate people.
>
> What a strategy! We should be well armed against these forms of
>power. The main strenght of power is to hide itself. We can catch it,
>make it visible in the very micro-levels. Hence in this case, the
>GOVERNMENT has tried to "structure possible fields of actions of us".
>
>
> Koray Caliskan
> Dept. of Political Sci. (RA/ grad. stu.)
>
>
Thanks for the news.
The reason I asked for the news was to read them on a local community based
radio, for " Third World" program. As you know, the type of news and its
content when released from people is very different from the news coming
>from the " media".
Please do not hesitate to send some more news to me. You are welcome to use
my direct e.m. address: atefeho@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Atefeh
At 12:25 PM 7/31/96 +0400, Koray Caliskan wrote:
>
>Dear Atefeh and list members,
>
>Atefeh has asked me to inform her/him about recent info on resistence
>movements. I will never hesitate to inform my fellows about both the
>power and the resistence events but I think all the members of this list
>would like to have info from news etc. BUT nevertheless I will send a
>very interesting (-disgusting) example.
>
> A CASE On the Resistence to Resistence: TURKEY
>
> I- Last month, during the party congress of Democracy Party of
>Peoples (HADEP) which supports political rights of Kurdish minority in
>Turkey, two young men has lifted down the Turkish flag. All the TV news
>has worked on this issue; the result was a huge nationalistic wave that
>is cristalized on the flags sticked on the buildings, windows etc.
> II- Last week, Some extremist people has fired two public busses to
>protest the insensibilty of government. It was this news, instead of the
>hunger strikes, which gained more rating in TV's.
>
> These two events made possible government to argue that all the
>people attending to demonstrations were terrorists and perfidious. It was
>these two events that were used to delegitimize the raison d'etre of
>demonstrations
>
>The Case:
>
> Last week, 3000 people were in the Sultanahmet square to protest
>the government. They were willing to give a letter to the Court in order
>to accuse the minister of justice for his responsibility in the deaths of
>5 people. (now 13). It was a great example of a mass 'resistence'.
> The counter-resistence came from the government. It was not a
>violent attack by police, but a really reprobate strategy: There were
>tens of flags around that can easily be lifted down by demonstrations.
>And a cleaned, empty public bus was parked at the center of the square
>waiting to be crashed down and burned.
> We were avare of provocation, so circulated the intention of
>these attempts to provacate people.
>
> What a strategy! We should be well armed against these forms of
>power. The main strenght of power is to hide itself. We can catch it,
>make it visible in the very micro-levels. Hence in this case, the
>GOVERNMENT has tried to "structure possible fields of actions of us".
>
>
> Koray Caliskan
> Dept. of Political Sci. (RA/ grad. stu.)
>
>