Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2013-06-12-Speech-3-568-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2013-06-12"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Paul Murphy2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I would like to say to the High Representative that I was appalled by the statements she put out on Sunday night calling for restraint on all sides. At that stage I was travelling back from Istanbul where I personally witnessed massive and systematic violence by the Turkish police against protesters. In the working class suburb of Gazi in Istanbul, I saw massive use of tear gas, tear gas being shot as bullets against protestors, the use of flashbangs and the massive indiscriminate use of water cannon against protestors. Your statement came just over 24 hours before the retaking of Taksim Square by the police and turning it into a war zone, as anyone can see from watching television, in a move that was entirely anticipated by the protestors and many others. The protestors are guilty only of demanding their democratic rights and freedoms. It is the government that is responsible for cracking down on those rights; it is responsible for massive police brutality and it is responsible for jailing lawyers for making a statement against those policies. It is the government that is responsible for the neo-liberal and anti-environmental restructuring of Istanbul, for the repression of the Kurdish people and for the imposition of conservative policies against kissing in public and selling alcohol, purely in order to divide and rule. The people I met in Istanbul were an absolute inspiration. Therefore, against the High Representative’s advice, I say to them: do not show restraint; do not be afraid of returning to the streets and mobilising in order to demand your rights and mobilising against Erdoğan’s attempt to clamp down. I support the call by Socialist Alternative and other groups in Turkey to mobilise massively next weekend, to organise for a one-day general strike and to make sure that Tayyip Erdoğan is forced to resign."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Paul Murphy (GUE/NGL ). -"1
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