before he starts his talk, a student says he and the government violates human rights dailiy, be it the killing of uğur kıymaz 12 year old, a set up anti-terrorist operation; or the death of engin çeber under custody in prison due to beatings; or the lack of desire to lawfully release the cancer patient güler zere who is a political prisoner.
the students desire for him to leave is expressed with unending applause, nevertheless he appreciates the comments and continues;
Untitled from sendika.org on Vimeo.
not for very long.
the crowd go mad, as one student yells "you talk about democracy. what you understand from democracy is giving a examplary service medal to the likes of coronal ali ertosun," who was responsible for the prison hunger strike crack down of 2001, which resulted in 32 deaths (2 of them soldiers).
the bit i want to make note is that before hell breaks loose, cicek tells that when he is trying to be silenced, it is against democracy. imagine a situation where you know mainstream tv channels would not show the demonstrations, hence you need to have a handy cam so that the footage can be online, is that a equal representation of freedom of speech? as the media and information flow is consciously controlled to suppress free speech, is it really undemocratic to make the vice prime minister leave?
i would say no.
nobody needed to sit through his lies and clap in the end just because of common courtesy.
as far as I read from BirGün, after Cicek left, plain clothes policeman left with him and a student said that "since the police have left, we can start talking" and the second talk was Ahmet Insel's, he is reported to say that "wish they would stay, maybe they learn something."
ReplyDelete+ thanks for sharing video.