#taksim square

[postcard-from-the-past]

Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey

Turkish vintage postcard

[emaadsidiki]

Taksim Square

[iptila-e]

hatıraların masumiyeti

[secee]

[cinaraslan]

İNSAN HAYATINI İŞLER DEĞİL SÖZLER YÖNLENDİRİR. BİR ŞEY YAPMA YA DA YAPMAMA İMKÂNINDAN ZİYADE FARKLI MESELELER ÜZERİNDE ARALARINDA BELİRLEDİKLERİ KELİMELERLE KONUŞMAYI SEVERLER. ÇEŞİTLİ ŞEYLER, VARLIKLAR VE NESNELER, HATTA TOPRAK, İNSAN VE ATLAR İÇİN KULLANDIKLARI VE PEK MÜHİM SAYDIKLARI KELİME (BENİM) KELİMESİDİR. AYNI ŞEY İÇİN ARALARINDA KİMİN (BENİM) DİYECEĞİNİ KARARLAŞTIRIRLAR. VE ÜZERİNDE ANLAŞTIKLARI BU OYUNDA, EN ÇOK ŞEY İÇİN BENİM DİYEBİLEN EN MUTLULUKLARI SAYILIR. NEDEN BÖYLEDİR BİLMİYORUM, AMA BÖYLEDİR İŞTE. ESKİDEN, UZUN BİR SÜRE ALENİ ÇIKARLA AÇIKLAMAYA ÇALIŞIRDIM BUNU KENDİME AMA HAKLI OLMADIĞIM ORTAYA ÇIKTI. (TOLSTOY- ÜÇ ÖLÜM KİTABINDAN)

[random-brushstrokes]

Nazmi Ziya Güran - Taksim Square (1935)

[fredwkong]

Looks like a few people have booked on FKW Vacations - are you still taking bookings? I'd love to organise a trip to the Middle East.

Thanks for your booking with FWK Vacations. We’re connecting you to your Middle Eastern destination right now! Please get comfortable and prepare.

You wake up to the sound of the call to prayer outside your open window. You roll out of bed and stumble to your prayer mat on autopilot, unthinking.

After prayers, you make yourself presentable for the day. You put on loose linen pants that do nothing to hide your half-hard, insatiable cock, and a tight black tank top over your thick muscles. Your kufi goes over your hair, the medium length strands greasy because you haven’t had time to wash it in a few days. You take a moment to admire your light green eyes in your olive-skinned face, and flex a few times in your small mirror. Your cock chubs further, visible right through your pants.

It’s hot in Istanbul this time of year, and you’re soon sweating as you walk the streets. You can smell yourself, fresh, sweaty musk that makes you even hornier. You don’t have a photoshoot today, so you’re planning to spend the day in the gay district near Taksim square. Hopefully you’ll find plenty of queer tourists who want a Turkish alpha to hold them down and facefuck them with his huge cheesy dick.

Enjoy your vacation!

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[shaheenstravelstory]

তাকসিম স্কয়ার – Taksim Square

[bilgehangood]

[tom-isaacs]

'The Standing Man' aka Erdem Gunduz

"Gunduz, a performance artist and left-Kemalist, began to stand still in Taksim Square on Monday [17 June, 2013] at 6pm local time. He stood, facing the Ataturk cultural centre, until 2am. It was a silent, stubborn and dignified protest against the brutality of the police response to demonstrators, which had culminated in a sinister weekend assault whose targets included medics and staff who treated the wounded. Indeed, the ministry of health went so far as to threaten to withdraw the licences of medical personnel who treated protesters injured by police. "The "standing man" exemplifies some features of the tradition of passive resistance. First, the ability to meet overpowering physical force with a determined, but passive, feat of defiance has sometimes been the death knell of recalcitrant regimes, whether it is the Shah or Marcos – because it points to resources that the protesters have which can overwhelm the state's repressive capacities. Second, passive resistance is not merely symbolic; it confuses and derails the calculations of the rulers. When the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia, part of the resistance involved painting over street signs and mysteriously shutting off infrastructure." (Source)

[mostlysignssomeportents]

This day in history

#15yrsago Swedes take to the street to fight domestic spying https://politics.slashdot.org/story/08/06/17/0126243/wiretapping-law-sparks-rage-in-sweden

#15yrsago How Canada’s DMCA will criminalize everyday Canadians https://web.archive.org/web/20080618192040/https://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/3041/125/

#10yrsago Men in Toronto Mayor Rob Ford crack photo arrested in gang sweep https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/06/14/dixon_road_raids_help_complete_infamous_rob_ford_photo.html

#10yrsago NSA admits it listens in on US phone calls and reads US emails without a warrant https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/nsa-spying-flap-extends-to-contents-of-u-s-phone-calls/

#10yrsago Turkish EU minister: protesters will be treated as terrorists https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/police-to-consider-protesters-in-istanbuls-taksim-square-terror-organization-members-minister-48875

#5yrsago Adventure House: the sequel to the Haunted Mansion that never was https://passport2dreams.blogspot.com/2018/06/marc-davis-adventure-house.html

[eurovision-revisited]

Eurovision 2004 - Number 28 - Athena - "I Love Mud On My Face"

Türkiye and TRT are hosting Eurovision in 2004 after winning for the first time ever the previous year. Who's going to represent the country at their home gig? Why not the biggest rock band in Türkiye, beloved of all Turkish football fans and who have a contemporary and different (for Eurovision sound) that will do well across the continent? Welcome Athena.

The one minor negative about asking Athena to represent them is that it means Şarkı Yarışması has turned into a song selection final for 2004. My least favourite format. In this case I'm not complaining too much as I really like Athena. They've been around since 1987, starting out as a thrash metal band before pivoting to ska-punk in the mid-1990s.

This change of genre confused the Turkish music industry. Thrash metal as one thing, but ska-punk? It's basically unknown in Türkiye so it took a while for their album Holigan to get a release. Confounding received wisdom, the Turkish public loved it, adopting the title track as a football terrace anthem. Athena had made it. In 2000 they supported the Beastie Boys on tour in Germany and headlined the main millennium celebration concert in Taksim Square in Istanbul. This is all before Eurovision - Athena are big. Big in a way many Eurovision acts aren't.

I Love Mud On My Face is one of the three songs they submitted to Şarkı Yarışması for their Eurovision appearance. It's authentic to their sound, and indeed their genre. It sounds closer to the original ska-punk of the 70s and early 80s and the mid-90s Britpop ska influenced bands than the ongoing mainstream skater-punk sound. It's hugely refreshing, bringing to mind outdoor concerts in the light drizzle of a cloudy summer day. It's fun, fast and very much in your face.

Of the three songs, this fared the worst, finishing last a significant distance behind the winner. What else are Athena going to put forward? Maybe we'll find out shortly...

[thats-so-night-raven]

When Jamil talks about a “wet burger”, he’s referring to an islak burger- a burger that has been soaked in seasoned tomato

Originating in Istanbul’s Taksim Square; the chain Kizilkayalar is considered the best place to get them

As an affordable street food; the Al-Asims enjoying it is comparable to the upstair folks of Downton Abbey enjoying a hot dog

Though it’s completely understandable Islak burgers are the perfect food for when you have a hangover or just want to get your grub on~

[voidingintotheshout]

Well shit. There goes turkey as a safe place for marginalized groups.  I remember when I was there in around 2012 and there was an LGBT coming out group handing out flyers in Taksim Square. I imagine all of that freedom for LGBTQ people is gone now. 

[surlecoeur]

alandayız.

[homosapiennns]

ITS WORKERS DAY !!!!!! ✌️✌️✌️

— 1977 May 1th, over 500 thousand people came to Istanbul to attend the workers day. There was no space left in Taksim Square. Then, the police started shooting people. 34 people died and 136 people injured.

We still can’t celebrate in Taksim Square. We will never forget!