To the foreign journalists who have been coming to Istanbul for the past three weeks and asking me how the Gezi Park and Taksim Square issues are to be solved, I have always said the same things:
- What we are going through reminds me more of the 1989 Velvet Revolution I witnessed in Prague than being "Turkey’s Tahrir."
- Taksim Square is the heart of Istanbul, which is Turkey’s jewel. This situation is not sustainable and will end soon.
- Although what I have been seeing reminds me of the Velvet Revolution, I am worried that Taksim-Gezi Park could end up like 1989 Beijing, and Taksim could be our Tiananmen Square.