'' It is about human rights, democracy and freedoms''
1. What the streets told me “ You are a journalist, aren’t you? Tell your channel that what you see around was not done by us. It is the police who did it on purpose in order to accuse us. We did not do anything. We do not want to cause any damage . ” The young woman standing in front of me with a gas mask hanging around her neck had come to talk to me among the thick crowd in one of the side streets of Istiklal Caddesi (Grand Rue de Pera) a few hundred meters from Taksim Square. Saturday late afternoon, the police had withdrawn from the square and the bars of Pera were filled with young people taking their revenge this time through their beer cans. The streets were packed with these jolly beer drinking, singing and shouting young people who a few hours before were among the huge crowd in the square confronted by the heavy tear gassing onslaught of the Turkish police. The girl could easily identify me. I was going around holding a microphone with the logo of my f