Berlin-Kreuzberg: Soli-demo for the revolt in Turkey (Germany)

15/06/13

Berlin-Kreuzberg salutes the peo­ple revolt­ing in Turkey

Every­day since the begin­ning of the revolt about two weeks ago, peo­ple went on the streets in Berlin to show their sol­i­dar­i­ty with the ongo­ing fights in Turkey. Anoth­er short and wild demon­stra­tion took place in the cen­ter of Kreuzberg yes­ter­day evening, the 7th of June, where around 50 peo­ple marched towards Kot­tbusser Tor, shout­ing slo­gans and light­ing fire­works.

Mate­r­i­al from a con­struc­tion site got pulled on the street, so after a short while the traf­fic was blocked in every direc­tion. The cops, that were mak­ing a dru­graid at this moment, got attacked with stones, paint­bombs and fire. After that the mob dis­persed.

Short­ly before the demon­stra­tors reached Kot­tbusser Tor, leaflets were spread in the close area. The text was writ­ten in turk­ish and ger­man and cir­cu­lat­ed some days before fri­days action. Ban­ners were hung up as well say­ing „Berlin salutes Istan­bul-for social revolt world­wide“ and „Özgür­lük için omuz omuza!“ („Side by side towards free­dom“). As was writ­ten in the news­pa­pers two peo­ple got arrest­ed by the cops and released the next day.

We send our sol­i­dar­i­ty to them as well, since they are fac­ing the repres­sion of the police and the state jus­tice sys­tem.

We will be back again, where, when and how we want. Take part in the demon­stra­tions, pre­pare actions and show the rebels that we are fight­ing on their side, just in a dif­fer­ent city.

Our thoughts are with the fam­i­lies, friends and com­rades of Mehmet Ayvalı­taş, Abdul­lah Cömert and Ethem Sarısülük, that got killed dur­ing the revolt.

Free­dom for the pris­on­ers!

Side by side towards free­dom!

The leaflet that was hand­ed out:

Sol­i­dar­i­ty with the revolt­ing peo­ple

Peo­ple flock the streets, bar­ri­cades are set up, cars are burn­ing and every­thing thats not fixed gets thrown at the police. The sky is cloud­ed by tear­gas and a scream for free­dom makes its way through the dust.
The planned destruc­tion of one of the last green spots in Istan­bul, to have a shop­ping mall instead, was the spark that brought thou­sand of peo­ple on the streets for resis­tance. Until now the revolt spread like a wild­fire all over the coun­try.

No mat­ter how dif­fer­ent the moti­va­tions and rea­sons of every­one involved may be, they open new spaces of self-orga­ni­za­tion, sol­i­dar­i­ty and con­tro­ver­sy by burst­ing the exis­tent.
All these things that are rarely hap­pen­ing in this world as we know it. Between school, work, pay­ing your rent, feed­ing your fam­i­ly and so on, it looks like there is no time to dis­pute with the destruc­tion of our envi­ron­ment.
We like the fact, that there are peo­ple that still doing exact­ly that. As we can see, the small fights in your dai­ly life can be the trig­ger of a gen­er­al upris­ing.
We are rec­og­niz­ing the smoke sig­nals of the cities and we see these fights match­ing up with our own ones- against dis­place­ment, degra­da­tion and police vio­lence.
That’s why we call out for sol­i­dar­i­ty with the peo­ple of the upris­ing. Let them see the sig­nals on Bosporus as well, so that they are not all one.

Side by side towards free­dom! (A)