Tag Archives: Egypt

Open Democracy: Three-way conversation in Istanbul

Members of resistance movements from Egypt, Turkey and Tunisia come together on Gezi Radyo to compare experiences, discuss ways to cooperate and debate how to build a better future. Gezi Radyo organized a mid-August meeting between members of the three resistance movements for change from Egypt, Tunisia and Turkey: Sameh Naguib, co-founder of Egypt’s Revolutionary Socialists Souheil Idoudi 
from Tunisia’s Union of [...] → Read the full article…

Al Jazeera: In this sublime struggle of ours – After Egypt, on Turkey and terror, Ayça Çubukçu

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What does Erdogan’s government in Turkey and Sisi’s in Egypt share in common? ‘Nothing’ cannot be correct…Erdogan and Sisi are each fighting their own war on terror, yielding a violence that is no less legal or popular for its circular logics of clarification, writes Ayça Çubukçu. What does Prime Minister Erdogan’s government in Turkey have in common with General Sisi’s in Egypt? [...] → Read the full article…

The Guardian: The Egyptian coup is a warning to Turkey – but will Erdoğan listen?, James E Baldwin

Although Ennahda's situation is much closer to Mohamed Morsi's than the AK party's, the coup is less threatening in Tunis than it is in Ankara. Photograph: Chedly Ben Ibrahim//Demotix/Corbis

Like the Muslim Brotherhood, Erdoğan’s AK party has alienated opponents. Ennahda in Tunisia shows a way forward for democratic Islamists Egypt’s coup was not just a major shock for Mohamed Morsi, but also for the Middle East’s most successful Islamist party: Turkey’s AK party. When news of the Egyptian army’s deposing of Morsi broke, Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, [...] → Read the full article…

Jadaliyya: Tahrir to Taksim: We demand the fall of the system

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The following video expresses the Mosireen media collective’s stance of solidarity with the on-going demonstrations around Istanbul’s Taksim Square, and in several other Turkish cities. It begins with images of trees being uprooted in Istanbul’s Gezi Park, to make way for the government’s planned conversion of the area into a commercial space–the original trigger of the peaceful protests. It then [...] → Read the full article…