To: President Donald Trump
US Stop Supporting Violent Suppression of Protest in Turkey
We ask the United States government to support the citizens of Turkey, who are protesting their government's high-handed plan to turn Gezi Park in central Istanbul into a shopping mall and a fake Ottoman monument. They are enforcing this plan by police violence with tear gas and water cannons.
Why is this important?
The Turkish government is turning one of the few parks in central Istanbul into a shopping mall. It will be constructed inside fake Ottoman military barracks from a century ago. A lot of my friends in Turkey are gravely concerned by the violent suppression of protest over this. The Turkish government might be less hard-line if it was not confident of unwavering support from the Unites States government.