As a member of the Turkish-American society located in Little Rock, AR I am greatly depressed and shocked about the police brutality against Turkish protesters all around Turkey. Protests started peacefully as a quiet sit-in in Gezi Park, Taksim Square, Istanbul this Friday and turned into chaos after the police started to violate Human and Civil Rights using excessive force against civilians, bystanders, tourists and protesters. Police is currently using excessive amount of teargas, water cannons, plastic bullets and batons on crowd to injure them purposefully instead of dispersing them. Turkish media is locked and only a couple of foreign media such as BBC, Reuters and CNN reported the violent police attacks with limited capability.
CNN - Turkish Riot Police Starts Using Agent Orange.