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Who are the people at Gezi Park?
We will not be deterred by a few plunderers that go to that square and provoke our people through disinformation.
I am a housewife. I am part of the youth, the women following Ataturk's principles. We are the people. I am here to stand by my people.
I am a musician. I am here for my freedom.
I will keep coming here even if it lasts for one or two months.
I am an average citizen and I am here for Gezi Park.
I work in the textiles industry. I am here for Gezi Park.
I am a student I want to preserve my future.
First and foremost, I am an individual, a human being. I am the people who live in Turkey. And everyone here are standing in fraternity.
I work at Istanbul Chamber of Commerce, at the Department of European Union and Foreign Relations.
I received my Masters degrees on European Union and Human Rights law.
And I am here today for all the liberties that 'He' is against .
I am a human. I love the nature and the environment. I believe this world is ours. That's why I am here.
I am a student. I am here to show Tayyip (PM) that not everything is as the way he desires them to be.
I am a pensioner. Shall we leave the country established by Ataturk alone?
I am a student by profession. I sobered up, that's why I am here.
I am an individual. I am a Turkish citizen and a Kemalist.
My struggle is to defend my friends and the whole Turkish Nation against a man who, with a despotic discourse, says that he can do whatever he wants.
I am a student. I am an average member of the people. We are here to protect our freedom and defend the people who lost their lives in Reyhanli* (at the Syrian border).
I am a student. We want to reclaim our land, our trees.. and our freedom.
I am free and that's the reason why I'm here.
I love green and therefore I'm here. I am not discriminating against gays, lesbians, or anyone for that matter.
I respect everyone's life styles, and therefore I am here.
I have respect to everyone. Doesn't matter whether they are leftist or from the right wing, Kurdish, Armenian, Alawites, I do not care. I want everyone to live in freedom and prosperity, and therefore I am here.
I am a citizen and I am here as apart of the resistance that started for the Gezi Park.
I am a Kemalist and I am here so that the Turkish Republic will live forever.
I am a working mother of two. I work as an aesthetician. I am here and looking forward to being here everyday.
I am 35 years old. I work in private sector. I am not a plunderer. I am here for my own future. I am here for my present and future.
Doesn't matter whether he (PM) calls us as margins or plunderers, we, the people, are resisting violence and pressure here.
I am a sensitive citizen. I am here because I don't want these trees to disappear and the nature to be harmed.
I am not affiliated with any political party. I am not a member of any association.
I am just defending of my freedoms here and I ask for nothing else.
As a health worker I saw the patients that came to the emergency room during my 16-hour night shiftÉ
I witnessed the violence exerted on them. I saw patients with head traumas, in asthma crisis as a result of the gas bombs.
Seeing them, we are here to support the people and to show everyone that we are united in solidarity.
I have been here for five days I am not affiliated with with any organization or political party.
Tayyip (PM) managed just one thing. And he did it very well. He united the people...
I am a common citizen, from the public. Nobody brought me here.
And today, there are people here who have never participated in any demonstrations.
The political tool that is called democracy did not leave us any other options..
We are not poets. Poets wrote poems. We are not film makers. They already filmed movies.
People signed petitions over the internet, they did lots of other things. But nothing worked, none of us were able to accomplish anything.
And in the end, we came here in person to show this.
There is no other option left for us in democracy anymore. He (PM) didn't leave us any other options..
At last we had to come here and say "we are here and we do not want you.' Here we are, just with ourselves.
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