تركيا: العلمانيون المتظاهرون يعتدون على المحجبات

خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

شهدت المظاهرات التركية القائمة في الآونة الحالية قيام العلمانيين المتظاهرين بميدان تقسيم - بدعم من الجبهات العلمانية والقومية المختلفة - بالاعتداء على المحجبات؛ حيث تم رصد بعض حالات اعتداء على محجبة وطفلها البالغ 6 أشهر بدنيًّا بسبب حجابها، في ظل ارتفاع وتيرة الاستقطاب الاجتماعي.

وقد وقعت الحادثة أثناء سير المرأة حاملة طفلها، كما تم الاعتداء على بعض المارة ممن حاول الدفاع عنها، وقد عُرف فيما بعد أن لها صلة قرابة بعمدة بلدية "إسطنبول" المنتمي لحزب "العدالة والتنمية"؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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The headscarfed mother, infant attacked by Gezi Park protestors

A report has been published about the mother who was attacked by a mob of Gezi Park protestors for wearing a headscarf. Both mother and infant suffered physical injury.

The Taksim Gezi protests, which began with a small group with environmental concerns, have turned into nation-wide protests which have resulted in groups violently attacking people throughout Turkey.

The efforts by the secularist-nationalist fronts, which have provided direct support to the protests, to provoke the crowds and polarize society have reached an appalling scale. One mortifying case has been the attack on the daughter-in-law of an AK Party mayor of a township in Istanbul as she was walking with her 6 month old baby.

Suffering from trauma, the mother whose entire body is bruised has been unable to nurse her infant since the attack.

Even though this attack was discussed over social media since the first days of the protests, AK Party officials did not address this event in order to prevent conflict which might have ensued due to rage at the abuse suffered by the mother. The subject was finally addressed when Prime Minister Erdogan brought it up during the party's group meeting on Tuesday.

The incident happened on Saturday June 1 in Istanbul. The victim of the attack is the daughter-in-law of a large township in Istanbul, referred to as Z.D.

Z.D. had visited the Islands of Istanbul on the morning of Saturday June 1 with friends. She was accompanied by her six month old baby in a stroller. After returning from the Islands with a ferry, we called her husband from the Stone Pier so that he could pick her up. Her husband asked that she wait for him across from the Kabatas Pier.

Z.D. encountered a group of protestors as she was walking across the Kabatas Pier. She realized they were Gezi Park protestors, and did not feel the slightest discomfort as they were protesting for the environment and trees.

They pulled at her headscarf yelling “whatever happened, came from this,” and kicked her body. Some of the men in the group then joined in the mob assault.

A man at the scene tried to intervene to protect the mother and infant, but the mob also beat him up.

The mother continues to suffer from physical and mental trauma. The mob tore apart her infant’s stroller, and the infant’s legs also suffered scratches.