great news: İ have a new computer and installed a NetBSD 3.0 on it. it`s working fine and İ`m very proud. just İ installed gimp and can present a new foto:

İ will call it \istiklal on a saturday night. İ had to force the man who develops my films to put it on the cd. the technique: long time exposure with a flash to emphasize one second. There will be some more of this serial soon …

in this story and in this. Now İ have some pics:

some say, the police prevented clashes between roman and kurdish people in dolapdere. İ still can`t really beleive that. At least hier police is driving the protesters down to dolapdere. İt sounded to me like police propaganda, but since jungle-world reported, İ wonder, which sources they have.

here the translation of the artikle, hami mentiond in his comment:

“… Those children are scattered around and without codes calling ( the
+state) to account for their existence. those are the children who were injured
+in their mean existence with the biggest of the griefs. the world they were
+born into is a half hell in which the only way to get your meaning across is
+violence. what happened to them is the most terrible thing that could happen to
+a human being since the existence of human. their mothers and fathers were
+beaten, humiliated, and tortured again and again in front of them. if you beat
+fathers and kick mothers in front of their children, neither you nor your
+children or those children can escape from the feeling of war. if you deliver
+those children to mobilization conditions starting from their birth and behave
+them as prisoners of war, they will be warriors. as rosa luxemburg said : ”
+civil war is another name for class war, that’s it”.

thx for translation

metropol:istanbul is still on my blogroll. but articles lik this let me think about removing. what a strange relationship to nationalism. to damage a silly photo showing big father on the toilette - ok i`m joking, but on some evry days situations is provoking noral people, even those who see themselve as the educated elite to emphasize their nationalism. tststs, in a way they`re funny, the turkish nationalists. very proud, but not very self-confident.
or is the author trying to do persiflage?

Still İ didn`t here much diskussion about the kurdish protests, most people don`t even recognize, what`s going on, even if things are happening directly in the city district, they;re living in. International press is mentioning. But only prompting the ruoghest information, hardly trying any analysis. some want to see a kind of social protest, but at least in İstanbul you can state: it seemed to be a kurdish protest, not one of other socially marginalized groups. read youself at sites of new york times, were İ`ve quoted from, for example, or if you know german at jungle world.

… A few hundred Kurdish protesters clashed with the riot police in central Istanbul on Sunday, throwing gasoline bombs and setting fire to a truck. Three people were killed after a gasoline bomb was thrown at a bus, The Associated Press reported, citing police reports.

The civil unrest has been some of Turkey’s worst since the Kurdish party took up arms against the government in 1984.

Security officials said additional troops were being sent to this city of about 100,000 people south of the region’s largest city, Diyarbakir.

Political analysts and diplomats say the violence, the worst in a decade, reflects local anger over high unemployment, poverty and the central government’s refusal to grant more autonomy to the mainly Kurdish region. …

anyway, it`s strange to see, how the story of one day is pressed in one sentence. kurdish sources are not really more interesting. To be honest, İ do not really understand the links to iraque. İt seems they are just necersary to speak about U.S.

probably you`ve heard some news on what`s going on in Turkey. A kurdish mayor was arrested because he spoke kurdish language in the public and regretet the death of about a dozen pkk fighters, caused by an military attak.
on sundday i heard the sound of slogans like “apocular geliyor” - those following “apo” öcalan are coming or something like that. so İ had my first coffee on my balcony, watching what`s going on. just a few moments later cs bombs exploded and stones where thrown. about 70 polıcemen, armed with sticks, teargas and some mp`s, the face mostly covered with gas masks, came up the street, beating some youngsters and spraying quite a lot teargas at them. they arrested nobody.

İ went to my bakkal to get breakfast and cigarettes. İ asked him whats going on. totally calm he explained the situation. there was a gathering in taksim because of the things going on diğarbakı. police attaked and so the protesters fleed to tarlabaşı. he began to wash the cs from his vegetables a little bit sooner, which he should do several times this day.

things where going on quite normal, all shops stayed open, people where coming from or going to the sunday`s market, drugs where sold and baught, just slightly even more conversation than normal. some one hour later about 50 apocular gathered and try to go up to taksim, armed with stones. nobody was caring, noone applauding, it seemed just to be a normal thing. maybe people who experienced long periods of civil war need more to get excited. some too young kids where sent back. this time: cs bombs and about 100 police coming down the street. the press embedded with them, also wearing gas masks.

nothing special happened. life was going on. we went to the market. it was slightly less crowded than normal and a helicopter was over the quartier. people were doing business as usual, even putting the washing on the line, not fearing, that the smell of teargas could stay. some were preparing some molotow coktails. others playig football like evry day. less people were washing their carpets on the street, like usual on sundays.

after some hours the ptotesters gathered again this time armed with molotow coktails. they run up to the bulvarand this time police seemed to run away. the traffic didn`t stop while the mollis were thrown on and over the street. about 10 min nothing happened.

this time over 100 police entered the quartier, cs bombs and now 5 were arrested, also beaten. life went on like usual.

so far the story. İ still don`t know, what İ should think about. on one side it`s just a conflict between two nationalist parties. on the other hand i feel empathic with the protest. and all in all i saw quite reasonable use of violance, calm and as far as i can estimate responsible. İ don`t think this is comparable with intifada like some newspaper write about the protests in the east, which might be different. And if somebody is arrested because of speaking a language it is a reason for protest anyway.

İ know, normally nobody is commenting in a blog, but if somebody has something to estimate these protests, i would appriciate to read.

coming from taksim to tarlabaşı you cross tarlabaşı bulvarı, an 8lined traffic road, connecting taksim square to aksaray, built through the quarter in the 70`ies. thousands of houses where removed for this project and it seems, changeing the social structure was as much the goal as building an important traffic connection.
This is more an border than an street. there are few crossing points and beside those, crossing is not only dangerous but made nearly impossible by an fence in the middle of the road. on the one side the famous entertainment and shopping area taksim, on the other drugs, prostitution and last not least just normal poverty and minorized groups.
No there is a city governments plan to “develop” this street. İt should become part of the shopping area. İ don`t know, how this should work out. unless you move the traffik somewhere, it will never be a place for strolling. but this will be the minor problem. either minorities will be kicked out of tarlabaşı, which will not happen so easily, they will be accepted, which will even more hardly happen, or the road will stay border.
when İ have time for developing and so on, İ will show you a pic of the staus quo.