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Interview with a Turkish Pirate about the Protests in #gezipark June 24, 2013 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Profile The recent protests in Turkey started  on 28 May 2013. The protests were sparked by the brutal eviction of a sit-in at Istanbul’s Taksim Gezi Park protesting at plans for the park’s demolition and replacement with a shopping mall.  The Pirate Party of Turkey (Korsan Partisi Hareketi) was involved from the first days and we asked Şevket Uyanık a few questions about the situation there – he got together with  Ugurcan Orcun, Serhat Koc, Erkan Saka and  Yasin Aydin and these are their answers; Pirate Times: We are getting conflicting news over the television and in newspapers. Do …

The Current State of the Pirate Movement in Japan – an Interview May 27, 2013 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Profile During the recent General Assembly of the national German Pirate Party in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz in April 2013 the Pirate Times met  Maru Tom and Chiaki Atsumi (Minci) from the Pirate Movement in Japan. With the technical help of our German sister publication the Flaschenpost and especially Holger Burbach, we are able to bring you an audio interview with them. You can either download the  audio file or play it directly by clicking this button   Tom tells us why he is a Pirate Minci tells us why she is a Pirate (in …