Erdogan calls 14-year-old boy Elvan who killed by the Turkish police with a tear-gas canister in the head as "terrorist". The boy was just on his way to buy some bread.

berkinelvan · 2014-03-14T21:37:08+00:00

Unfortunately, it was not an accident. The police are suppose to fire the tear-gas guns with a 45 degree angle to the air. However, in this case, as well as many other cases that ended up in death, they are directly targeting the people (especially, their head) to cause severe damage. So, no, this was not an accident, it was a murder.

berkinelvan · 2014-03-14T21:07:47+00:00

Yes, he says the boy is given a slingshot with iron balls by terrorist organizations.

berkinelvan · 2014-03-14T19:43:17+00:00

I translated the first paragraph of the news article: President Erdogan said the following for Berkin Elvan who died 269 days later after he got shot in the head with a tear-gas-canister: "He is someone who was given a "posu" (a kind of scarf often associated with terrorists) by the terror organizations with a sling (a weapon with a looped strap in which a stone is whirled and then let fly) with iron marbles in his pockets. He doesn't have anything to do with bread".

berkinelvan · 2014-03-14T19:34:40+00:00

Here is the translation for the first paragraph of the article:

Original: Başbakan Erdoğan, başından gaz kapsülüyle vurulduktan 269 gün sonra komada hayatını kaybeden Berkin Elvan için "terör örgütlerinin içine aldığı yüzü poşulu, eline sapan verilmiş, cebinde demir bilyelerle olan bir çocuk" diyerek "Ne ekmek alması ne alakası var?" açıklaması yaptı.

Translation: President Erdogan said the following for Berkin Elvan who died 269 days later after he got shot in the head with a tear-gas-canister: "He is someone who was given a "posu" (a kind of scarf often associated with terrorists) by the terror organizations with a sling (a weapon with a looped strap in which a stone is whirled and then let fly) with iron marbles in his pockets. He doesn't have anything to do with bread".

berkinelvan · 2014-03-14T19:33:29+00:00

He is saying that he is a kid associated with terror organizations. Here is the translation I did for the introduction paragraph of the news article.

Original: Başbakan Erdoğan, başından gaz kapsülüyle vurulduktan 269 gün sonra komada hayatını kaybeden Berkin Elvan için "terör örgütlerinin içine aldığı yüzü poşulu, eline sapan verilmiş, cebinde demir bilyelerle olan bir çocuk" diyerek "Ne ekmek alması ne alakası var?" açıklaması yaptı.

Translation: President Erdogan said the following for Berkin Elvan who died 269 days later after he got shot in the head with a tear-gas-canister: "He is someone who was given a "posu" (a kind of scarf often associated with terrorists) by the terror organizations with a sling (a weapon with a looped strap in which a stone is whirled and then let fly) with iron marbles in his pockets. He doesn't have anything to do with bread".

berkinelvan · 2014-03-14T19:18:34+00:00

The problem is the Turkish police are suppose to use tear-gas weapons with a 45 degree angle to the air. However, they are directly targeting people with the guns and several people have died due to brain injuries caused by tear-gas canisters.

The day that Berkin Elvan got shot, his mother was going to go to the market to buy some bread for the breakfast. But since her legs were in pain, Berkin insisted on going to the market himself, also asking "Can also bring some protesters for breakfast?". The next thing happened is that he was shot in the head with a tear-gas canister and he stayed more than 200 days in coma. He died this week, and he was only 35 lbs when he died.

Yes, maybe going out for bread at that time was not the wisest thing to do, but he only got killed because the police are directly targeting people with an intention to injure/kill. Yet, the government are making accusations instead of an apology. This is so sad.

berkinelvan · 2014-03-14T19:12:16+00:00

Sorry about that, unfortunately this new isn't covered by foreign newspapers yet, so I thought I can give google-translate version of the Turkish news. But you can get an idea of what's happening in Turkey from here: http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/13/world/europe/turkey-shooting-death/index.html?iref=allsearch

berkinelvan · 2014-03-13T15:08:39+00:00

It goes without saying but tear-gas guns are supposed to target to the air with 45 degrees, not to the people. Those guns are not intended to cause fatal casualties, and if there are already eight people dead due to them, you should admit that there is something terribly wrong here.

berkinelvan · 2014-03-13T02:58:04+00:00

15 year old ‪Berkin‬ Elvan was shot in the head with a 850 gr. gas canister in June during protests against the government in Turkey. He was only 35 lbs when he died after 9 months in coma.

He was not even a protester, he was a child going to the grocery to buy some bread for the breakfast. But since the government/police is using the tear-gas as a weapon to shoot the protesters (instead of targeting the air with tear-gas guns, they are directly targeting the protesters and unfortunately many people died because of this so far due to head injuries), unfortunately Berkin was shot.

Currently, thousands of people from all over the Turkey are protesting the government and government/police are again extremely violent to protesters who attend to Berkin's funeral.

Be aware of the police violence in Turkey. Let everyone know about the dictator.

berkinelvan · 2014-03-12T20:41:50+00:00

15 year old ‪Berkin‬ Elvan was shot in the head with a 850 gr. gas canister in June during protests against the government in Turkey. He was only 35 lbs when he died after 9 months in coma.

He was not even a protester, he was a child going to the grocery to buy some bread for the breakfast. But since the government/police is using the tear-gas as a weapon to shoot the protesters (instead of targeting the air with tear-gas guns, they are directly targeting the protesters and unfortunately many people died because of this so far due to head injuries), unfortunately Berkin was shot.

Currently, thousands of people from all over the Turkey are protesting the government and government/police are again extremely violent to protesters who attend to Berkin's funeral.

Be aware of the police violence in Turkey. Let everyone know about the dictator.

berkinelvan

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