Turkey anti-IMF protest dispersed

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Police in Turkey have used tear gas and water cannon to break up protests against a meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

Several hundred protesters shattered the windows of banks and a fast-food restaurant in Istanbul, reports say.

Dozens of arrests were made, and many shops in the city centre remain closed.

Delegates of the two organisations are holding their annual meetings, with co-operation in international finance reportedly high on the agenda.

“Long live freedom,” chanted crowds of protesters, some of whom covered their faces with red scarves. “IMF get out of our city.”

Shield-wielding riot police wearing gas masks erected barriers around the convention centre where finance ministers, central bankers and economists were meeting.

Police helicopters hovered above the protests, which were organised by several Turkish trade unions.

A student was arrested last week for throwing a shoe at Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the IMF managing director, during a speech he gave at an Istanbul university.

The IMF is urgently discussing ways to make itself more representative of the new world order where developing countries make up nearly half of the world economy, but only have about one-third of the votes in the IMF.

BBC

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2 responses to “Turkey anti-IMF protest dispersed”

haluk

October 7, 2009

Let’s remind ourselves that Bilderberg elitist Zoellick has called for IMF, WTO & World Bank to regulate national policy:

“If leaders are serious about creating new global responsibilities or governance, let them start by modernising multilateralism to empower the WTO, the IMF, and the World Bank Group to monitor national policies.”
–Robert B. Zoellick, World Bank Group President

http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=62661

“The Power of financial capitalism had [a] far reaching plan, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole.”
–Dr. Carrol Quigley, advocate of one-world government, Professor of International Relations, Georgetown University Foreign Service School, Washington, D.C., and personal mentor to former President William Clinton:, in “Tragedy and Hope”, 1966
haluk

October 19, 2009

“We can hardly expect the nation-state to make itself superfluous, at least not overnight. […] The transition will not be dramatic, but a gradual one.”
–Henry Morgenthau, CFR member and once secretary of the treasury at the FDR

Turkey anti-IMF protest dispersed

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