Not if the military shuts down the Internet providers and telephone lines/towers, if need be while the police push forward more aggressively and disperse people into their homes or into rioting groups.They will succeed in the end, they only need to continue with passive resistance, this is not Iran or some other police state.
Austupaio said:With a military dictatorship, what other signs are there?
The police are killing people left and right, the government shows no legitimate sign of remorse.
Austupaio said:I'm mature enough not to go all CoD-kid and say that war is cool and a legitimate solution for everything but I don't think the Turkish government is going to be budged without a few live rounds being expended.
Offering masks and shelter, yes. CNN reported some military personnel being threatened with gas bombs by the Police yesterday, after a Police Truck wanted to enter the military barracks to turn around because they were having troubles with the tight streets. Incident ended after the Police backed down, apparently.Austupaio said:Wait, so the military may be offering shelter from the police?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22739423 said:Turkey is entering a second day of violent protests, with fresh clashes between police and demonstrators in Istanbul and the capital, Ankara.
The protest began as a sit-in over plans to redevelop Gezi Park in Istanbul's Taksim Square, but escalated after police used tear gas.
Tear gas was again fired on Saturday as hundreds of protesters tried to cross a Bosphorus bridge in Istanbul.
In Ankara, protesters tried to march on the parliament.
Transport lockdown
Hundreds of demonstrators marched over the bridge connecting the Asian and European shores of Istanbul on Saturday morning to try to reach the main square.
Police fired tear gas to try to disperse them and some protesters threw rocks.
Police also fired water cannon and tear gas in Taksim Square as demonstrators chanted "unite against fascism" and "government resign".
Clashes were also reported in the Besiktas district.
One Istanbul resident, who gave her name as Lily, told the BBC's World Service: "There are 40,000 people crossing the bridge between Asia and Europe today. All the public transport is on lockdown."
She said that police had dropped tear-gas canisters from helicopters overnight.
"About half past one the entire city started to reverberate. People were banging on pots, pans, blowing whistles," she said.
The BBC's Louise Greenwood in Istanbul says police from as far afield as Antalya are being drafted in to help quell the violence.
She says the central Taksim district and surrounding areas remain cordoned off and bridges are closed to traffic.
Istanbul's governor said a dozen people were admitted to hospital and more than 60 people detained after Friday's clashes.
In Ankara, protesters staged what they described as a solidarity rally, with many participants chanting: "Everywhere is resistance, everywhere is Taksim!"
On Saturday, protesters chanting anti-government slogans tried to march on the parliament.
The US has expressed concern over Turkey's handling of the protests and Amnesty International condemned the police's tactics.
Witnesses said tear gas was deployed randomly on people who were "by and large protesting peacefully".
Louise Greenwood BBC News said:What began as a small scale, peaceful protest to clear Gezi Park, one of the few remaining green spaces left in Taksim, has escalated into some of the worst scenes of public disorder and police violence seen in Turkey in recent years.
I was at Gumussuyu, on the edge of Taksim, at around 22:00 last night. Vast, blinding clouds of pepper spray and tear gas were being deployed by baton-wielding officers in riot gear who turned on thousands of protesters.
Bricks and paving slabs were pulled up and used as missiles by the crowds. Police in vehicles drove at them in an attempt to get them to disperse. With Taksim closed, demonstrators massed in the surrounding areas of Cihangir and Beyoglu and anti-government slogans and chanting continued through the night.
The claim that shooting the enforcers of the current ruling party is justified when you see something you disagree with happening while the political process remains open is utterly unjustified.
The police are clearly combatants here, I don't see how engaging them with a firearm would be considered unjustified.Police in vehicles drove at them in an attempt to get them to disperse.
The military can't do anything on its own. It was one of the first things AKP targeted. Hundreds of Military Officers are in jail right now, alongside journalists and artists.Austupaio said:Then I rescind everything I said, if the military supports the people then that's really all they need.
Military Officers
watin jail
Appearantly you're not.I'm mature enough not to go all CoD-kid and say that war is cool and a legitimate solution for everything...