MMF u Stambolu

[Kosta]

ISTANBUL, Turkey (CNN) -- A protester threw a shoe at the IMF director at the end of a question-and-answer session Thursday at a university in Istanbul. Security officers stopped the man when he rushed toward the stage at Bilgi University, where Dominique Strauss-Kahn had been giving a lecture.
Other demonstrators unfurled a banner and chanted "go away IMF, you're stealing money," said Gillian Morris, a CNN intern who attended the session and witnessed the incident. Turkish security officers dragged the protesters out of the assembly hall.
Strauss-Kahn, who joked about the incident afterward, was not hit.
The head of the International Monetary Fund is visiting Istanbul ahead of a World Bank/IMF conference scheduled for next week.

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Young women of LOB chained themselves at the Maiden's Tower in Istanbul, on September 30 to protest the IMF. The young women opened a banner read "Isyan-bul doesn't want IMF" (Isyan means uprising in Turkish) and shouted slogans such as "Down with IMF, DB and imperialism" and "On October 6-7, let's go on the streets, to the actions and struggle" at the action that lasted for one hour. The young women were arrested after one hour by the police.

To protest IMF, youth of SGD occupied the office of the AKP at Sisli, Istanbul on October 1. They hanged up a banner on the windows of the office on which it said "IMF get lost" and shouted the slogan "Istanbul will corner the IMF". When they were arrested they shouted "Against unemployment, poverty and hunger, we will make Istanbul become narrow to IMF".

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[mrki]

Domaći buržoaski mediji prenose vesti o dešavanjima u Istambulu kratko, suvo i uzdržano, ali ipak dovoljno sadržajno da se oseti atmosfera:

Istambul -- U Istambulu su se i danas sukobili pripadnici turske policije i demonstranti koji protestuju protiv Međunarodnog monetarnog fonda i Svetske banke. Turska policija je danas, drugog dana demonstracija, upotrebila suzavac i vodene topove da bi rasterala demonstrante. Nekoliko stotina demonstranata, studenata i članova turskih sindikata i levičarskih partija, sukobilo se sa policijom nekoliko stotina metara dalje od mesta na kome se održavaju polugodišnji sastanci MMF-a i Svetske banke, koji se danas završavaju.

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[Kosta]

Istanbul became the centre of heavy protests against IMF gathering in the city on October 6-7, 2009. Progressive revolutionary organisations, antifascists and unions made the police of Istanbul live different moments.

During the meetings lasting two days, the number of the arrested was more than 200; 2 people, among them one activist of the ESP , were imprisoned; several hundred people were injured as a result of the day-long clashes. 18 branches of different banks were destroyed. When the police threw gas bombs at Taksim Emergency Hospital as well as on the protesters for two days, and also made use of plastic bullets, pressured water and gas bombs which made two people had heart attacks; one of them lost his life. Many of the arrested had to face brutal attacks by the police; and many protesters had to be taken to hospital due to the gas bombs which also affected the press workers. The protesters defended themselves with stones and Molotov cocktails, put up barricades and set them on

fire. The police terror at Taksim on October 6, that reminded of the brutal police terror of Mayday, was protested around noon by unions and different institutions, among them KESK , DISK and TMMOB , at Taksim Gezi Park, and in the evening by the Union Against IMF and World Bank at Galatasaray Square with an action. 2 women activists of ESP opened a banner read "IMF go home" right in front of the Conference Hall of the IMF and WB meeting and were arrested. Both days nearly 1,000 people gathered at Taksim and shouted the slogans "The oppression can't stop us" and "We are on the streets against IMF".
Our party's militia actively joined the clashes, too. The militia wrote slogans on walls at Taksim and threw Molotov cocktails at the police. The militia opened the banner read "IMF get lost, the only way is revolution".

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