DISK (Revolutionary Labor Unions Confederation) members, leftist groups, on Friday have entered the controversial square in Istanbul after 32 years in a protest that unknown gunmen opened fire, several dozen people died.

Turkish riot police clashed some May Day demonstrators, trying to join the march in Taksim square, authorities said they would allow only "reasonable number of people" to enter the area.

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Valiliğin ve Emniyetin tüm baskı ve tehditlerine, devlet terörüne rağmen yılmayan işçi ve emekçiler sokak sokak çatışarak Taksim'i kazandı. 2009 1 Mayıs'ında binlerce işçi ve emekçi Taksim Meydanı'na çıktı.

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Several hundred demonstrators battled riot police in central Istanbul. Water cannon was fired and several arrests made, correspondents at the scene said.

Turkish riot police staged three charges against hundreds of demonstrators in the Sisli district of the city. At least eight people were injured.

Several thousand union and left-wing militants took part in the annual protest, chanting 'hand in hand against fascism', 'repression won't stop us' and 'long live the revolution and socialism'.

The Turkish parliament passed a law on Wednesday making 1 May a national holiday again. It was taken off the public holiday list following a military coup in 1980.

Some 5,000 demonstrators marched on Istanbuls controversial Taksim Square for the first time in 31 years.

On May 1, 1977 suspected extreme right-wing snipers opened fire on May Day demonstrators in the Taksim Square in Istanbul, killing 34 people.


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Revolutionary fighter Orhan Yılmazkaya's Voice Record during a clash with the Turkish Police.

3 killed in Turkish police shootout with leftist militant

A police crackdown on leftist groups in Istanbul on Monday led to a five-hour shootout with a leftist militant who hurled explosives and opened fire from an apartment building.

The militant identified by the government as Orhan Yilmazkaya, a top member of the leftist group Revolutionary Headquarters. The militant had a large amount of ammunition and was able to hold off hundreds of officers for more than five hours, Istanbul Gov. Muammer Guler said.

Yilmazkaya had a police radio and identified himself as a fighter from the Revolutionary Headquarters during a radio conversation with the police.

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Polis ile Orhan Yılmazkaya arasında geçen konuşmanın ses kaydı.

27 Nisan 2009 Pazartesi günü Bostancı'da çıkan çatışma sırasında Orhan Yılmazkaya adlı Devrimci Karagah militanı Terörle Mücadele Şube Müdürlüğü ekiplerinin kullandığı frekansa girerek İstanbul Emniyet Müdürü Celalettin Cerrah ve basın mensuplarına seslendi.

Yılmazkaya'nın Polis Müdürünü çağırması üzerine telsiz başına geçen bir Emniyet Müdür Yardımcısı kendini tanıtarak dinlemede kaldı. Konuşmanın sonlarına doğru telsizden duyulan silah sesi operasyonun o an devam ettiğini gösteriyor.

Emanet sokakta beş buçuk saat süren çatışmanın ardından Çanakkale'nin Bayramiç İlçesi nüfusuna kayıtlı Orhan Yılmazkaya yaşamını yitirdi. Çatışma sırasında ölenlerin arasında sokakta olayları izleyen bir genç, ve bir operasyon amiri de bulunuyor.

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Devrimci Karargah Komutanı Orhan Yılmazkaya nın Görev Konuşmasıdır.

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Devrimci Karargah Komutanı Orhan Yılmazkaya nın Görev Konuşmasıdır.

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Devrimci Karargah Komutanı Orhan Yılmazkaya nın Görev Konuşmasıdır.

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Part 1 of the 1945 Victory Parade video in Color.

Translation:
24th of June 1945. Here, at the walls of the Sacred Kremlin, the country met its children, that came back with Victory. The Heroes of unprecedented battles on all fronts of the Great Patriotic War: from the Barents Sea to the Black sea. The summary regiments. Here are those who boosted Dnepr and Oder, who took the snowy Carpathian crossings. Who brought back freedom to Kiev and Minsk, who freed Sevastopol and Odessa, who fought in the streets of Budapest, Keninsberg, Vienna and who raised the Banner of our Victory above Berlin. The 200 banners of the defeated Hitler armies are at the feet of the winners. The tribunes are being filled with guests: Deputies of the Supreme Council of USSR, participants of anniversary celebrations of the academy of sciences, Generals, Heroes of the Soviet Union, Masters of culture, Stakhanovites of Moscow factories and plants. 9 hours 55 minutes in the morning. On the tribune of the Mausoleum Comrade Stalin, Leaders of the Party and members of USSR government. Soviet Union Marshal Rokosovky is controlling the Parade. Marshal Zhukov is greeting the Parade.

To be continued.

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Part 2 of the 1945 Victory Parade video in Color.

Translation:
From tribune of the Mausoleum, Marshal of the Soviet Union, Zhukov made a speech to the troops of the Red Army, to the workers, to collective farmers, the intelligence, to all workers of the Soviet Union: "The Great Patriotic War is over! We achieved a Victory over the Fascist Germany which history never knew before! We were victorious because we were lead to Victory by our Great Leader and Brilliant General, Marshal of the Soviet Union - Stalin!" Victorious Soldiers carried past the mausoleum their combat banners, blessed by the immortal fame of numerous victories. The best people of the front: pilots, tankers, cavalrymen, infantrymen. Russian infantry, the descendants of the Suvorov Eagles. They persistently beat enemy, to the end, according to all the rules of the Stalin Warfare science.

To be continued.

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Part 3 of the 1945 Victory Parade video in Color.

Translation:
Summary column of the Navy. Defenders of Odessa, participants in the heroic defense of Sevastopol - the city of Immortal Fame. Baltic Commanders, which destroyed German divisions near the walls of Leningrad. The Divisions of the Moscow garrison passed along with the summary front troops. The Parade of Military Tech opens with the regiments of air defense. In the Weary Nights of the first stage of the War, they guarded the sacred sky of Moscow.

To be continued.

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PART 1
(PART 2 IS HERE: http://youtube.com/watch?v=xxJ _5_hw9qM )
Iraq. Summer 2003. Nobody, except our driver, knows where we are heading to. After 800 kms of desert and crossing illegaly the kurdish frontline, we reach our destination, a mountain range at the border of Irak, Iran and Turkey. This is a strategic point controlled by the kurdish rebels of the PKK. Among them are 3000 women. They have founded their own army and live separated from the men.

We are the first Western crew to have filmed their lives.

In these war zones, which last several decades, women are more and more present. As a way to stop the madness of men, they step into the light, and transform themselves into human bombs or soldiers, very often in territories where their basic rights are ignored.

Strangely enough, very few people speak about these women. It is true that the image of martyr women wrapped in burkas or torn apart by the deaths of their kids is more convenient to us than those of women giving death.
When you start talking about Kurds, you quickly realise that you are alone. This is the case when you mention Turkey's Kurds, as their war has been completely silenced by the media.

When there is a conflict, the bulk of images we see are those, mute, from CNN or other live news feeds. As if a man behind a camera should not take an engagement or have a position. As if the fact to film horrors was enough to redeem ourselves, as if this was an engagement. As if we were too scared to get caught in a propaganda machinery.

What's the point of filming tanks, despaired faces, cities in ruins if you don't know what's inside the heart of men and women ready to defend their ideals ? What's the point of filming this if you do not share their lot for the time of a report, if you do not get engaged yourself ?

I have decided to give these women a voice by seeking the humanity behind their kakis and kalashnikovs. I have filmed in emergency and depth, by living among those who are fighting.
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In Kurdistan, as in the majority of battle zones, which have been ongoing for many years, women are making their presence increasingly felt. It is almost as if, in order to stop the murderous madness of man, they must today be in the front line, transforming themselves into human bombs or soldiers.

In 1996, the women joining up with the PKK guerrillas decide to form their own army, completely independent of the men's army.
"The Women of Mount Ararat" retraces the life of a women's "manga", a base unit of the guerrilla army, made up of six women soldiers.

Constantly on the move, with no particular aim other than climbing the next mountain, they are on the lookout for the invisible enemy. Amidst military manoeuvres and everyday tasks, the intimate moments of these women's lives are gradually revealed alongside their individual destinies. Here, where life is a question of survival, their human qualities transcend those of the soldier's, liberating them from their state of male oppression in their society.

(Kurdish language with Danish subtitles)

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PART 2
(PART 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =3d_SjQyolmE )

Iraq. Summer 2003. Nobody, except our driver, knows where we are heading to. After 800 kms of desert and crossing illegaly the kurdish frontline, we reach our destination, a mountain range at the border of Irak, Iran and Turkey. This is a strategic point controlled by the kurdish rebels of the PKK. Among them are 3000 women. They have founded their own army and live separated from the men.

We are the first Western crew to have filmed their lives.

In these war zones, which last several decades, women are more and more present. As a way to stop the madness of men, they step into the light, and transform themselves into human bombs or soldiers, very often in territories where their basic rights are ignored.

Strangely enough, very few people speak about these women. It is true that the image of martyr women wrapped in burkas or torn apart by the deaths of their kids is more convenient to us than those of women giving death.
When you start talking about Kurds, you quickly realise that you are alone. This is the case when you mention Turkey's Kurds, as their war has been completely silenced by the media.

When there is a conflict, the bulk of images we see are those, mute, from CNN or other live news feeds. As if a man behind a camera should not take an engagement or have a position. As if the fact to film horrors was enough to redeem ourselves, as if this was an engagement. As if we were too scared to get caught in a propaganda machinery.

What's the point of filming tanks, despaired faces, cities in ruins if you don't know what's inside the heart of men and women ready to defend their ideals ? What's the point of filming this if you do not share their lot for the time of a report, if you do not get engaged yourself ?

I have decided to give these women a voice by seeking the humanity behind their kakis and kalashnikovs. I have filmed in emergency and depth, by living among those who are fighting.
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In Kurdistan, as in the majority of battle zones, which have been ongoing for many years, women are making their presence increasingly felt. It is almost as if, in order to stop the murderous madness of man, they must today be in the front line, transforming themselves into human bombs or soldiers.

In 1996, the women joining up with the PKK guerrillas decide to form their own army, completely independent of the men's army.
"The Women of Mount Ararat" retraces the life of a women's "manga", a base unit of the guerrilla army, made up of six women soldiers.

Constantly on the move, with no particular aim other than climbing the next mountain, they are on the lookout for the invisible enemy. Amidst military manoeuvres and everyday tasks, the intimate moments of these women's lives are gradually revealed alongside their individual destinies. Here, where life is a question of survival, their human qualities transcend those of the soldier's, liberating them from their state of male oppression in their society.

(Kurdish language with Danish subtitles)

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PART 3
(PART 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =zvMJKN0uHLM )

Iraq. Summer 2003. Nobody, except our driver, knows where we are heading to. After 800 kms of desert and crossing illegaly the kurdish frontline, we reach our destination, a mountain range at the border of Irak, Iran and Turkey. This is a strategic point controlled by the kurdish rebels of the PKK. Among them are 3000 women. They have founded their own army and live separated from the men.

We are the first Western crew to have filmed their lives.

In these war zones, which last several decades, women are more and more present. As a way to stop the madness of men, they step into the light, and transform themselves into human bombs or soldiers, very often in territories where their basic rights are ignored.

Strangely enough, very few people speak about these women. It is true that the image of martyr women wrapped in burkas or torn apart by the deaths of their kids is more convenient to us than those of women giving death.
When you start talking about Kurds, you quickly realise that you are alone. This is the case when you mention Turkey's Kurds, as their war has been completely silenced by the media.

When there is a conflict, the bulk of images we see are those, mute, from CNN or other live news feeds. As if a man behind a camera should not take an engagement or have a position. As if the fact to film horrors was enough to redeem ourselves, as if this was an engagement. As if we were too scared to get caught in a propaganda machinery.

What's the point of filming tanks, despaired faces, cities in ruins if you don't know what's inside the heart of men and women ready to defend their ideals ? What's the point of filming this if you do not share their lot for the time of a report, if you do not get engaged yourself ?

I have decided to give these women a voice by seeking the humanity behind their kakis and kalashnikovs. I have filmed in emergency and depth, by living among those who are fighting.
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In Kurdistan, as in the majority of battle zones, which have been ongoing for many years, women are making their presence increasingly felt. It is almost as if, in order to stop the murderous madness of man, they must today be in the front line, transforming themselves into human bombs or soldiers.

In 1996, the women joining up with the PKK guerrillas decide to form their own army, completely independent of the men's army.
"The Women of Mount Ararat" retraces the life of a women's "manga", a base unit of the guerrilla army, made up of six women soldiers.

Constantly on the move, with no particular aim other than climbing the next mountain, they are on the lookout for the invisible enemy. Amidst military manoeuvres and everyday tasks, the intimate moments of these women's lives are gradually revealed alongside their individual destinies. Here, where life is a question of survival, their human qualities transcend those of the soldier's, liberating them from their state of male oppression in their society.

(Kurdish language with Danish subtitles)

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