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Over the last week, the social media portrait of Turkish protest painted by a single hashtag, #OccupyGezi, has been a violent collage, all streets obscured by clouds of tear gas and pepper spray, and police officers spraying more of it in people's faces at point-blank range. That and the beatings and the politics are making sure this uprising and subsequent human crackdown won't look any better anytime soon. But look closer, and you'll see police spraying down and abusing another kind of accidental protestor: the dogs of Occupy Gezi, the awful suffering of which are now on display for the rest of the world to see.

This confused pup, and the protesters trying to get the tear gas out of its eyes, broke the Internet's heart on Tuesday afternoon:

Protesters in Turkey helping a dog affected by tear gas. twitter.com/Fascinatingpic… — Fascinating Pictures (@Fascinatingpics) June 4, 2013

A similar scene (and similar pup getting some treatment) was tweeted out two days earlier:

Two protesters are aiding a stray dog after he was attacked with pepper spray by riot police #occupyGezi twitter.com/Cyberela/statu… — Cyberella (@Cyberela) June 2, 2013

This pup's owner took preventative measures:

The obvious question: Why are these animals getting facefuls of toxic fumes? Some of them may be stray dogs, which explains why they might be in the middle of a violent protest in the middle of major cities. But these are still just dogs. They have no clue about the disproportionate and violent police response that happened a week ago, nor do they have any political yearning about the green space of Taksim Square.