On this day in 2013, Turkish protesters began occupying Gezi Park to oppose its demolition, an act with led to widespread protests and strikes with approximately 3,500,000 participants, 22 deaths, and more than 8,000 injuries.
The wave of civil unrest across Turkey began after the park occupation was violently evicted by police, who used to tear gas, pepper spray, and water cannons to try and break up the protests, injuring more than one hundred people and hospitalizing a journalist.
The protest quickly grew in size - by May 31st, 10,000 gathered in Istiklal Avenue. In June, the protests became national in scope and transcended any particular demographic or political ideology. Among the wide range of concerns brought by protesters were issues of freedom of the press, expression, and assembly, as well as the alleged political Islamist government's erosion of Turkey's secularism.
Millions of Turkish football fans, normally divided by intense sports rivalry, marched in unity against the government. Protesters displayed symbols the environmentalist movement, rainbow banners, depictions of Che Guevara, different trade unions, and the PKK and its leader Abdullah Öcalan.
On June 4th, Taksim Dayanışması (Taksim Solidarity) issued a set of demands that included the preservation of Gezi Park, an end to police violence, the right to freedom of assembly, and an end to the privatization of public spaces. Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç met the group on June 5th and rejected these demands.
Erdoğan blamed the protests on "internal traitors and external collaborators", demonizing his political opposition as the former. Despite the popular mobilization, Erdoğan remained in power and no major concessions were won from the government.
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One of the four people you can date in the game is Johnny's 90 year old band mate. A punk rocker born in 1988 who never really grew up, sold out before V's parents were born, and is now a major figure it corporate media. When he finds out Johnny is sorta kinda alive he hires you to get his band of octogenarians back together so he can prove he's over his narcissistic shitty best friend who died fifty years ago. Then he hires you to hold a bunch of young women at gunpoint so you can threaten them for infringing on his sacred IP rights by covering one of his songs without asking. Mind you - the man is 89 years old with an extremely successful multi-platinum career. So he hires V to hold a girl band at gun point beause muh property rights. At some point after this V can date him.
My views on the game were softening as I played a bit more of it but just what the entire fucking fuck is this narrative? If they wanted to make a cyberpunk 2020 dating sim about how cool and special Johnny is they should have just done that.
The romance parts of the game feel really tacked on in general.