During the Gezi Park protests in Turkey, police forces repeatedly used excessive force to prevent and disperse peaceful demonstrations. As a result, it is estimated that there were 22 fatalities and least at least 8,163 injuries, of which 63 in serious or critical condition.

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. 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 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 their 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).The 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 and vocal chords and has amnesia. 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 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 East 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 into 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.

Deaths

Mehmet Ayvalitas was the first known death related to the demonstrations. The 20-year-old Socialist Solidarity Platform (SODAP) member was hit and killed when a taxi drove into a group of demonstrators on an Istanbul highway during an anti-government protest. Huseyin Demirdizen, a board member of the Turkish Medical Association (Türk Tabipler Birliği; TTB) confirmed his death and said four other people were also injured, one of them seriously.Reuters, 3 June 2013, Turkish man killed by taxi driving into group of protesters -medics Selim Önder, an 88-year-old musician, was exposed to excessive amounts of tear gas on 31 May while trying to buy souvenirs and died a few days afterwards. Abdullah Cömert, 22-year-old youth branch member of the Republican People's Party (CHP) in Antakya, received a head injury in Hatay and later died in hospital on 3 June 2013. A Turkish Internet activism and hacking group, RedHack, released police documents on 11 September detailing the working hours, vehicles and locations of police officers. These documents were considered by left-wing and left-leaning news agencies to prove that 5 to 6 police officers were responsible for Abdullah's death. The leaks helped the judicial authorities take faster action. Initial reports described a wound from gunfire as the result of Cömert's death, with the Governor of Hatay Province echoing the hypothesis.Al Jazeera, 5 June 2013, Turkey protests continue despite apology Four months after Cömert was killed, an official report by the Turkish Forensic Medicine's first specialization department was published. The report concluded that Cömert was killed by a tear gas canister that hit his head. Another report by the Turkish gendarmerie indicated that two of the police officers suspected to have fired the gas canister, Ahmet Kuş and Hacı Ali Demir, were "interrogated as witnesses rather than as suspects." On 14 March 2016, the Balıkesir 2. Aggravated Felony Court charged Kuş with homicide beyond intent, per the Turkish Criminal Code, and he was sentenced to 13 years and 4 months in prison. The ruling was later overturned by the First Penal Department of the Turkish Court of Cassation. Kuş's case was tried again in the same court, and on 19 November 2018, he was charged with conscious negligence and sentenced to 6 years, 10 months, and 15 days in prison. The ruling was approved by the Court of Cassation, and Kuş was arrested in March 2020. Ethem Sarısülük, a 26-year-old human rights activist who worked at OSTIM, died on 2 June; he was reported dead 11 days after he was shot in the head in Ankara by Ahmet Şahbaz, a police officer.Hurriyet Daily News, 5 June 2013, Third person killed in Turkey protests Mustafa Sarı, a Police commissioner, died on 5 June, falling off a bridge while pursuing protesters in the southern province of Adana. İrfan Tuna died in Ankara on 6 June from a heart attack that resulted from overexposure to tear gas. Zeynep Eryaşar, a 55-year-old woman with diabetes, died in Avcılar, Istanbul on 15 June, from a heart attack that resulted from the crowd and police pressure. Ali İsmail Korkmaz, a 19-year-old student from Antakya, studying in Anadolu Üniversitesi (Anadolu University) in Eskişehir suffered a severe brain injury on 2 June after being attacked by a group that eyewitnesses allege included undercover police. He was confirmed dead in early July. In his autopsy report on 10 July, the cause of death was stated as cerebral hemorrhage caused by violent blows onto his head during the attack. The camera records showing the people attacking Ali İsmail Korkmaz was found in a local hotel, police took the records and shortly after it was told by the court that the videos were irreversibly damaged. although the hotel owner denied this. Later, the "irreversibly damaged" video was uploaded to the internet but according to legal experts it had a cut of 18 to 20 minutes. The prosecutor responsible for the case was changed in the middle of the proceedings after sending the hard disk to the Forensic Medicine Association to clarify whether the camera recordings were deleted by officials. The reason was reported as the judiciary holiday until 1 September by officials. As the investigation continued, the governor of Eskişehir, Güngor Azim Tuna alleged that "mostly civilians were responsible for the death rather than our police".Uykusuz, 5 September 2013's issue, p.2 Soon after, new video recordings of the street during the event were found and it was cleared that 4 police and 4 civilians besides them are responsible for the death. 5 people including the responsible civilians and a police officer were arrested. The case still continues for these 8 people. Korkmaz's family also applied to the court for an investigation on the Doctor Hasan Gücel who didn't treat Ali without a document from the police at first and sent him home with a painkiller while he was having a brain hemorrhage, stating that he is as responsible as others for the murder. Although, the governor of Eskişehir, Güngor Azim Tuna, didn't give investigation permission on the doctor. The family decided to apply to the higher courts.