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During the Gezi Park protests in Turkey, police forces repeatedly used excessive force to prevent and disperse peaceful demonstrations.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Amnesty International )〕 As a result, it is estimated that there were 11 fatalities 〔Hurriyet Daily News, 10 June 2013, (Turkish police admits suicides, denies link to Gezi Park protests )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Policeman dies after falling off bridge during protests in southern Turkey )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Polisin Biber Gazı Bir Can Daha Aldı )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ali İsmail Korkmaz Hayatını Kaybetti )〕〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gülsuyu'nda zehir tacirleri kan dökmeye devam ediyor )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Oğluna kelepçe ile getirdiler )〕 and least at least 8,163 injuries (at least 63 in serious or critical condition with at least 3 having a risk of death).〔 ==Injuries== The Turkish Medical Association reported on 4 June that 4177 people were reported as wounded in Turkey, 43 of these being heavily wounded and 3 in a critical condition. These people, including "a large number of citizens who lost their eyes", were injured as a result of water cannons and close-range shots from tear gas canisters and plastic bullets aimed directly at them.〔Turkish Medical Association's report on the situation of the wounded protesters, 4 June 2013, ()〕 Amnesty International said water cannons had been targeted at peaceful protesters, while "the inappropriate use of tear gas by police has been the most devastating on the safety of demonstrators, causing an unknown number of injuries, including serious head injuries when the canisters hit protestors." Police were reported to have disguised their ID numbers.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dayak Atarken Numaraları Gizlediler )〕 Human Rights Watch also condemned this misuse of tear gas. According to a report of the Turkish Medical Association on 15 July, there were at least 8,163 injured people with at least 63 in serious or critical condition and with at least 3 of them having a risk of death.〔 A total of 14 people as of 14 September, lost an eye due to by tear gas canisters and rubber bullets. About 200 people received head and brain traumas caused mostly by teargas canisters and baton blows.〔〔12 September 2013, Halk TV, Journalist Fatih Ertürk's Reports on Main News Bulletin Live.〕 According to the Turkish Medical Association, 1 person lost his/her spleen, caused by extreme police violence. * Sırrı Süreyya Önder, a member of the Turkish Parliament, was hospitalised after being hit in the shoulder by a tear gas canister (31 May).〔New York Times, 31 May 2013, (Police Attack Protesters in Istanbul’s Taksim Square )〕 * Lobna Allami suffered a head injury due to a tear gas canister on 31 May and stayed in a coma for 24 days. Two operations on her brain were required and she suffered from loss of motor control in one arm and speech loss.〔Radikal, 1 June 2013, (Gezi direnişinde Lavna Allani'nin durumu kritik! )〕 She is recovering but still suffers from paralysis of her right side an vocal chords and has amnesia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bebek annenin karnında değil, kalbinde büyür )〕 * Ahmet Şık, an investigative journalist, known for his vocal opposition to government and prolonged imprisonment, was hit in the head by a tear gas canister;〔''The New Yorker'', (Occupy Gezi: Police Against Protesters in Istanbul )〕 "Onlookers said the canister was deliberately thrown at Şık from a distance of about 10 metres."〔Reporters without Borders, 31 May 2013, IFEX, (Turkish police attack journalists covering "Occupy Gezi" )〕 * Sezgin Tanrikulu, a noted human rights attorney, and also a member of Parliament from Republican People`s Party (CHP), the main opposition party in the Turkish Parliament, was hospitalized after suffering a mild heart attack caused by exposure to tear gas on 31 May.〔 * Nasuh Mahruki, professional mountain climber, writer, photographer and film producer was hospitalized with a broken leg on 1 June. * Volkan Kesanbilici, a 38-year-old shop keeper sustained a life-threatening injury when he was hit by a plastic bullet containing hundreds of ball-bearings and lost an eye on 1 June. * Human Rights Watch reported a student losing an eye after being hit by a plastic bullet.〔Human Rights Watch, 1 June 2013, (Turkey: End Police Violence at Protests )〕 * Reuters photojournalist Osman Orsal, the photographer who captured the iconic "Woman in Red" images, was wounded when he was struck in the head by a tear gas canister.〔globalvoices.org, 4 June 2013, (Turkey: A Social Media Chronology of Occupy Gezi )〕 * 21-year-old university student Başak Özçelik was hospitalized after being severely attacked by police and some civilians armed with batons and rods.〔''Akşam'', 6 June 2013, (Başak Özçelik twitter'dan dayak fotoğraflarını paylaştı )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=First Hand Gezi )〕 * Reporters without Borders said on 5 June that at least 14 journalists (including Orsal and Şık) had been injured,〔Reporters without Borders, 5 June 2013, (At least 14 journalists injured by security forces since start of protests )〕〔 and documented another three injured on 11 June.〔Reporters without Borders, 11 June 2013, (Journalists scapegoated in "Occupy Gezi" crisis )〕 * The Jerusalem Post correspondent Igal Aciman reported that his apartment was hit with tear gas grenades shot through the window while sleeping on 16 June. He received only minor burns. * Sibel Cıngı, a 73-year-old lung cancer patient with a prior lung surgery, was exposed to extreme amount of tear gas inside her apartment after a canister was shot through her window on 16 June, leading to complications such as dyspnea and arrhythmia. International laws and ECHR case law strictly bans indoor use of CS gas in this manner according to Sedat Ergin. * Mustafa Ali Tombul, a 16-year-old boy, was hit in the head by a gas bomb canister fired at close distance (5–10m), in the day of the re-opening of the Gezi Park (8–9 July), while he was trying to stop his father arguing with another shop owner. * Several people sustained injuries from gas canisters in Antakya during demonstrations in support of the victim of the protests, Ali İsmail Korkmaz. * Aydın Ay, a 35-year-old man was hit in his head by a teargas capsule fired by riot police in Dikmen, Ankara on 14 July. It was reported that he had a compression fracture and cerebral hemorrhage. * Serhat Köksal, Istanbulite multimedia artist known with his own-produced ''2/5 BZ'' and ''Gözel'' projects, have fractured both of his arms during the escape away from riot police in Taksim. * Yener Çıracı, a student of Hacettepe University who joined the latest protests of Middle Eastern Technical University after Ankara Municipality workers entered the university site without permission and unlawfully chopped down most of its forest which blazed another resistance fire across Turkey for protecting it, and after thousands of citizens, students with the participation of METU's Rector Prof.Dr.Ahmet Acar, deans and other officials, re-planted the cleared area as a respond to the unlawful cutting of the forest, has been beaten up and thrown in to the barricade fire which the protesters lit to protect themselves from riot vehicles and teargas usage, by the riot police. This was interfered as illegal under torture and unlawful police action titles and his family told that this event will be challenged in the court. After being thrown up on the fire, most parts of Yener Çıracı's skin have encountered dangerous and vital burns.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Casualties of the Gezi Park protests」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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