{"id":3003,"date":"2013-06-17T10:04:41","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T08:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3003"},"modified":"2013-06-17T10:04:41","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T08:04:41","slug":"gokhan-bicici","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3003","title":{"rendered":"Gokhan Bicici"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/istanbuloc.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3004\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/istanbuloc-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/istanbuloc-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/istanbuloc-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those of you who attended the LabourStart Global Solidarity Conference in Istanbul in 2011 may recognize some of the people in this photo.\u00a0 That&#8217;s part of the organizing committee for the event.<\/p>\n<p>The young man sitting on the far left of the photo is <strong>Gokhan Bicici<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>He is the head of TAREM, an NGO that works closely with Turkish trade unions.<\/p>\n<p>Gokhan played a central role in organizing our conference and he and I became friends.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, he was brutally beaten and arrested by Turkish police as he was filming the demonstrations in Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?v=10201308689182667\">You can watch a shocking one-minute video of this here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please help us build the campaign &#8211; spread this URL around everywhere:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=1840\">http:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=1840<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who attended the LabourStart Global Solidarity Conference in Istanbul in 2011 may recognize some of the people in this photo.\u00a0 That&#8217;s part of the organizing committee for the event. The young man sitting on the far left of the photo is Gokhan Bicici. He is the head of TAREM, an NGO that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3005,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003\/revisions\/3005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}