The spirit of the June's Gezi resistance is still alive after months of ongoing repression imposed on the peoples by the ruling AKP government.

Six people have died since the beginning of the countrywide uprising as of late May, thousands were wounded, dozens left blind and critically injured as a result of brutal police crackdown on demonstrators.

It is however once again demonstrators themselves that are brought to trial by Turkish judiciary, not police forces and authorities responsible for the brutalisation of the people during protests.

What we witness in the trial of Gezi protestors is not any different from what we are used to seeing in Turkey for years now; victims become guilty and perpetrators rightful.

Demonstrators are found guilty for perpetrating different crimes such as damaging public property and breaking the law on meetings and demonstrations, while police officers protected by the Turkish state and government are being subjected to no legal action for the killing of six young people, aged between 18 and 26, nor the ill-treatment of demonstrators.

The most recent Gezi case against demonstrators has been opened in Mersin after the 9th Criminal Court of First Instance accepted the indictment prepared by public prosecutor Cihat Gezmen.

The accusations directed against 54 peaceful demonstrators are the same with those we witness in the cases of demonstrations in protest against the government; such as resisting and insulting police officers, damaging public property and breaking the law on meetings and demonstrations. The indictment however introduces new types of crime such as trying to keep the mass dynamic and motivating them by playing guitar and drum, singing a song containing slogans against Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and negotiating with police officers on behalf of demonstrators.

The accusations also include “resisting” and “effective resisting” police officers as well as joining demonstrations with a gun.

Those to be tried in Mersin Gezi case also include musicians who supported the Gezi resistance and protests by playing music for peoples and their struggle for freedoms and rights.

Musician Serdar Y. Türkmen from the political and opponent Praksis band is accused, among other things, of leading the mass by playing a musical instrument and having the mass chant slogans with music. The indictment also consists of lyrics of a song composed by the band, which says that;

"There is an AKP over there,

with tear gas everywhere,

come, join us and say that

we need revolution right there".

Another member of the band, Soner Küçükergüler, is also accused of trying to keep the mass dynamic by playing guitar during marches and demos. One other member of the band, Beşir Yılmaz, is also among those to be tried in the case.

Speaking to ANF about the legal action, Praksis band member Serdar Y. Türkmen said that "Our band is familiar to all those who resist on streets. We are musicians who gather protestors with the sound of the saxophone in Istanbul's Taksim Square, thus strengthen the spirit of resistance, make music against the rubber bullets of the Interior Ministry in Kadıköy, fill all areas, squares and even the side streets of poor neighborhoods and forums with music in İzmir, and set the resistance to music in Mersin".

Türkmen continued saying that; "Everybody is performing its own duties for centuries today, they are trying to suppress us who are on the other hand trying to make an end of the system of exploitation. As was said by master Ruhi Su many years ago, it is not easy to deal with a trouble rooted in the deep. Our songs are the rifle barrel tearing the system of exploiters apart and exposing this trouble rooted in the deep".

We will never give up committing the aforementioned crimes which as a matter of fact resemble a simple children's story telling about a bee tried for making honey, Türkmen said and underlined that "Music will continue to fill the streets".