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berkin elvan'ın ölümünü haber yapmış uluslararası haber kanalı ve sitesi. Berkin'in ölümü hepimizi üzdü elbette ama cnn international gibi haber siteleri böyle kışkırtıcı şekilde yazılar kaleme alıyorsa, ben bi kuşkulanıyorum arkadaş, çok pislik herifler bunlar. Acımızı yaşayalım tepkimizi gösterelim, gerekirse meydanlara da inelim, ama böyle kiskirtmalara da gelmeyelim lütfen. Tıpkı dün fethullah gülen'in de yapmaya çalıştığı gibi. Buyrunuz haber :

UPDATED: 03:18 PM EDT 03.11.14
Grief and rage erupted on the streets
of Turkey's largest city after a 15-
year old boy struck in the head by a
tear gas canister died Tuesday
morning in a hospital.
Much of the anger was focused on
Turkey's embattled prime minister,
Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
A crowd chanted "fascist
government, Erdogan killer," as
Berkin Elvan's coffin was carried
through the streets of the working-
class Istanbul neighborhood his
family calls home.
Some bystanders wept in the
freezing, pouring rain.
Elvan was only 14 years old when he
was critically wounded last summer,
at the height of a wave of anti-
government protests that erupted
across Istanbul and other Turkish
cities.
His parents said he left home on the
morning of June 16, 2013 to buy a
loaf of bread. Less than 15 minutes
later, neighbors arrived, telling them
their son had been wounded.
The boy suffered blunt trauma to the
head. According to a report by
Human Rights Watch, an eyewitness
said the child was hit by a police tear
gas canister.
For the next nine months, Elvan lay
in a hospital bed in a coma.
When Elvan's mother attempted to
make a public statement about her
son's ordeal in central Istanbul in July
2013, CNN journalists witnessed and
filmed Turkish riot police hitting
demonstrators with pepper spray
and beating one man with a club in
an apparent effort to break up the
demonstration.
More recently, riot police used tear
gas to disperse demonstrators
holding a vigil outside the hospital
where Elvan was being treated.
Members of the Elvan family said the
boy wasted away to a weight of 16
kilograms (about 35 pounds) during
his nine-month-long coma.
"The government has not accepted
any responsibility and they have not
brought the police who were
responsible for this to justice," said
Ali Kan, one of the men who
attended Tuesday's funeral
procession.
News of Elvan's death sparked a fresh
round of protests in other parts of
Istanbul on Tuesday, as well as in the
capital Ankara, where riot police
reportedly intervened using tear gas.
Political passions are running high in
Turkey. In less than three weeks, the
country is expected to go to the polls
in nationwide elections. Though
voters will be electing town and city
mayors in a series of municipal
elections, the contest is widely seen
as a referendum on Turkey's long-
serving prime minister.
Erdogan has been on the political
defensive since December, when
police detained dozens of people
close to his government as part of a
wide-ranging corruption probe.
In subsequent weeks, the prime
minister dismissed thousands of
police commanders as well as the
prosecutors leading the
investigation. He has also mounted a
media offensive against his former
political ally, the powerful Islamic
preacher Fethullah Gulen, who lives
in self-imposed exile in the U.S. state
of Pennsylvania. Erdogan has
repeatedly accused Gulen and his
supporters of establishing a "parallel
state" within the Turkish police and
judiciary aimed at toppling his
democratically-elected government.
As the corruption probe ground to a
halt, anonymous critics began
publishing a series of audio
recordings online that appear to be
wiretaps of Erdogan's telephone
conversations.
Erdogan has denounced some of the
recordings, calling them "immorally
edited material." But the prime
minister has also confirmed the
authenticity of at least one
recording, in which he is overheard
instructing the executive of a Turkish
TV channel to censor the live
broadcast of a rival politician's
speech in parliament.
On Tuesday night, Elvan's body lay in
a "cemevi," the house of worship of
the Alevi religious sect to which he
belongs. The boy is expected to be
buried following a funeral service on
Wednesday.
In the meantime, activists have
called for symbolic funeral protests
to be held in other cities across
Turkey.
More than a hundred Turkish riot
police walled off the center of
Istanbul's busy Taksim Square
Tuesday evening, in a clear effort to
prevent demonstrators from
gathering in the heart of the city.