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Are American networks playing this on a loop? Why not?
@Free_Press I wish this had a link to the source. There is so much false information going round that I don’t want to boost. I really want this to be true but hard to know if it’s misinformation or not.
@hastar @Free_Press Watch Euronews, ABC, France 24. News is everywhere.
@geramikus @Free_Press I’ve seen news articles mentioning over 100 thousand protesters.
This says 2 million protesters.
As I said, I want this to be true.
@geramikus @Free_Press I also understand it’s hard for press to report on protests when Erdogan puts journalists in jail..
@hastar @Free_Press You're right, of course. What can one do? 
@hastar Opposition estimates 1 M people in Istanbul.
medyascope.tv/2025/03/22/1-milyon-kisi-sarachanede-sarachanede-kac-kisi-toplandi/ (Turkish, 1 week ago)
/via en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Turkish_protests#cite_note-26&go=Go
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@hastar Best source I was able to find. Hope we'll find a better one.
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For a standing event, you might estimate about 0.5 m² per person. So it would take approximately 1,000,000 square meters to accommodate 2,000,000 people standing.
Now you only need to know where it was, and you can calculate the area size.
Next questions, is it fake or not, was this recent and what’s it about.
Couldn't find indrpendent condirmations about the numbers.
But there is undoubtly a enormous crowd of citizens, protesting against Erdogans regime.
I am with the people, longing for peace and freedom.
@desatyr Guardian has it at "hundreds of thousands"
@Free_Press Now, that's what I call a protest. People in the US take note.
@Free_Press It's a start but what's the next step? How does this turn into change?
Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.
In 1986, millions of Filipinos took to the streets of Manila in peaceful protest and prayer in the People Power movement. The Marcos regime folded on the fourth day.
In 2003, the people of Georgia ousted Eduard Shevardnadze through the bloodless Rose Revolution, in which protestors stormed the parliament building holding the flowers in their hands. While in 2019, the presidents of Sudan and Algeria both announced they would step aside after decades in office, thanks to peaceful campaigns of resistance.
Looking at hundreds of campaigns over the last century, Chenoweth found that nonviolent campaigns are twice as likely to achieve their goals as violent campaigns. And although the exact dynamics will depend on many factors, she has shown it takes around 3.5% of the population actively participating in the protests to ensure serious political change
The African-American abolitionist Sojourner Truth, the suffrage campaigner Susan B Anthony, the Indian independence activist Mahatma Gandhi and the US civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King have all convincingly argued for the power of peaceful protest.
Overall, nonviolent campaigns were twice as likely to succeed as violent campaigns: they led to political change 53% of the time compared to 26% for the violent protests.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world
So, to be fair, about a 50-50 chance for peaceful and a, 'good luck with that', one in four chance for violent. Either way it's hard and risky.
@Free_Press this needs to happen in the USA asap
🅻🆄🅴That video is very low quality. And it never gets close enough to see individuals. It looks like it could be generated.
However I hope that people are standing up against someone who shuts down opposition by throwing them in prison. Also, it sounds like his financial plan was very very bad and they are paying the price for it.
@Free_Press looks like they have an election in Turkey. Or will have really soon now.