Category Archives: Protests

BBC News: Turkey clashes after boy hurt at Istanbul protest dies

Protesters attacked a riot police vehicle outside the hospital where Berkin Elvan died
Protesters attacked a riot police vehicle outside the hospital where Berkin Elvan died

Clashes have erupted at a hospital in Istanbul where a boy has died nine months after he was struck on the head by a tear-gas canister fired by police.   In Ankara, police fired tear gas to disperse some 2,000 protesters. The boy, Berkin Elvan, 15, was wounded while on his way to buy bread in June. He had been [...] → Read the full article…

Istanbul Kent Mitingi: Mass Rally in Kadikoy on December 22 – Our Call to Reclaim Istanbul

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We are the people of Istanbul, we reclaim our city! To unite, to get organized and to say “Isatnbul is ours,” we are meeting in Kadikoy on December 22! Those craving for money and power have, by means of their political power and their local authorities, commoditized İstanbul and put on sale its neighborhoods, public squares, forests, its history and [...] → Read the full article…

Firat News: Barcelona – Taksim

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As part of the project Inside Out initiated last year by the Festival The Influencers, one of the “reclaimed” walls of Barcelona has been pasted with the photos of people supporting the Gezi Park resistance in Istanbul. Inspired by JR’s large-format street “pastings”, INSIDE OUT gives everyone the opportunity to share their portrait and make a statement for what they [...] → Read the full article…

ODTÜ Statement from the Student Collectives

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The Student Collectives published a statement about the insidious assault against the ODTÜ (Middle East Technical University) on the last day of the religious festival, after midnight: This assault is not only against the trees in the ODTÜ campus but also against the University itself! We are going to resist all over Turkey! The aggressors who assaulted the ODTÜ by [...] → Read the full article…

The Guardian: Istanbul Biennial under fire for tactical withdrawal from contested sites

Istanbul biennial: Halil Altindere’s film, Wonderland

A crackdown on anti-government protests forced the art show to abandon its more edgy ideas. But the spirit of Taksim Square is not entirely absent For the time being, the days of “art for art’s sake” are over in Turkey. A police crackdown on a fresh protest in Taksim Square threatened to overshadow the opening of the Istanbul Biennial, the country’s most important [...] → Read the full article…

The New York Times: A Canvas of Turmoil During Istanbul Biennial

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Now in its 13th edition, this year’s Istanbul Biennial, which runs through Oct. 20, is called “Mom, Am I a Barbarian?” taking its title from a book by the Turkish poet Lale Muldur. It fills five venues in Istanbul’s bustling downtown, bringing together 88 artists from around the world: 15 of them are Turkish, others are from Latin America, the [...] → Read the full article…

Al Monitor: Are Protests on the Rise Again in Turkey? – Orhan Kemal Cengiz

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The demonstrations that broke out across Turkey earlier this year after the police clampdown on an environmentalist protest at Istanbul’s Gezi Park came as a major sociopolitical quake for the country. The first tsunami after the big tremor is beginning to rise as street clashes spread again across Turkey over the Sept. 10 death of a 22-year-old protester in Hatay province. A [...] → Read the full article…