Turkish Protests Documented through Instagram
On May 31, three days after demonstrators set up camp in Istanbul’s Gezi Park to protest the development of a new shopping mall, police dispersed the crowd with water cannons and tear gas, setting off the most significant wave of protests in Turkey’s recent history.
Tapping into deeper cultural divisions and discontent, demonstrations have spread throughout Turkey, where protestors and bystanders alike have been documenting the skirmishes through Instagram.
View more photos from Istanbul by visiting locations pages for Gezi Park, İstiklal Caddesi and Kazancı Yokuşu. See photos from Ankara by visiting the Tunalı Hilmi Caddesi and Kuğulu Park location pages.
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About Forgiveness
Forgiving an injury is usually considered to be a sign of weakness ; but I am of the opinion is that it is really a sign of strength, it is quite easy to allow yourself to get carried away by resentment and hate into an act of vengeance ;
but it takes a strong character to restrain those natural passions. The person that forgives an injury proves himself/herself to be the superior of the person that wronged him, and puts the wrong-doer to shame. Forgiveness may even turn a foe into a friend,( which happened to me a few months ago), so we may think that mercy is the noblest form of revenge.
(Source: tolgagirgin.com)
