Turkish Government Tried to Stop my Tweets

Today, I experienced something never before. Propably the fake Twitter user of Turkish government tried to silence me tweeting my commentaries of the demonstrations in Istanbul. Tweets from which I got the personal RT record - thank you for sharing, and please do that!

I have Turkish friends which are touched by the current demonstrations in Istanbul. Demonstrators are against the plans for building a mall to a park and they criticize the government for undemocratic decision making during the process. People were not heard and they claimed the decision makers for the corruption.

So, they did the only thing they could do. Go to the streets.

And the government response has been attacking against the demonstrators with the hard force. With rubber bullets, teargas, water canons and chemical substances I thought it was not even possible to use this day. I admire the demonstrators for their spirit and the courage to go to the street when everyone watching the incident outside can see that the police force is breaking the human rights after another: freedom of speech and expression and freedom to demonstrate. The police has acter very brutal and it is obvious that they hace acted against the international laws. Or what do you say of the video where Police's armed vehicle mutilates the demonstrators. I felt sick when I saw this video.

Later today, I read an article in TechCrunch which stated that it had been verified that access to Facebook and Twitter has been made difficult for the users in Istanbul and also in other parts of the Turkey. These media are the only media people in Turkey get information since the government has the tight controll over the Turkish media which hardly covers the incidents at all. I suspect that in distant parts of the Turkey people do not even know that something serious is happening in their major cities.

I have been active in sharing and commenting the events via Twitter since I have people in Turkey which I know  and care to. Gladly many of my tweets have been retweeted actively.

Today, I got an odd message from a twitter user called @hasbenntakenn. He said: "@roexae it doesnt matter for you. this is national protest..." and when I conflicted with this the user continued: @roexae i dont support govertment and you understand me wrong. we dont need support. its only national protest. why u are doing show?

Turkish government is not only trying to silence the demonstrators but also their supporters overseas.

The person behind the tweets has only 43 tweets, he is following 60 users and only 10 is following at him. This indicates - correct me @hasbenntakenn, if I am wrong and I am sorry if I am - that this is a fake twitter account the Turkish government uses trying to silence the most actice foreign tweeters. I asked my anonymous Turkish friend to check out his tweets and the person concluded:

• he is a supporter of the government. Seems so they are trying to silence every one!

It is obvious that I believe my friend in this matter. There seems to be also another government supporter commenting my tweets. He says that I do not know nothing. User @ibusinesslounge claims that I do not know nothing since Turkish government got 52% of the vote. My answer to him is that this does not give the right to oppress the minority. As someone put it: democracy's value is measured by how they treat the minorities.

As a free twitter user and a person concerned the human rights I am disgusted of the policy how the government and their supporters try to silence the international support and coverage of the events. This is crucial since the national media is censored and does not cover objectively what is happening.

My message for demonstrators is: defend democracy and defend human rights. They can't silence me either! And do your part, share this!