Istanbul, Turkey: From the day of Berkin Elvan’s funeral


The police attacked the massive crowd that demonstrated in Şişli for Berkin’s funeral.

During post-funeral resistance in the neighbourhoods of Pangaltı and Kurtuluş, banks were also destroyed and the ruling AKP election office was wrecked and set on fire.

On same night in Greece, people gathered in remembrance of Berkin in Athens, at the Exarchia’s location where 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos was shot dead in December 2008; a slogan on the street reads:

Berkin Elvan, 15-year-old dead
ACAB (All Cops Are Bastards)
For the brothers and sisters who left too soon ((A))