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Dissent: Gezi Park Protests and the Future of Turkish Politics – An Interview with Seyla Benhabib

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Seyla Benhabib is the Eugene Mayer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University. Recently, Begum Adalet, Defne Over, Onur Ozgode and Semih Salihoglu interviewed Professor Benhabib about Gezi Park protests, their significance within the wider pattern of cosmopolitan, contentious politics emerging alongside neoliberal global capitalism and their impact on the future of Turkish politics.  Gezi Park protests, June 15, 2013 A recent [...] → Read the full article…

theguardian: The ongoing Turkish protests have left us enlightened and emboldened

Turkish anti-government protesters in Gezi Park, Istanbul

The overseas interest has waned but our protests continue amid a brutal government crackdown and give us reason to smile Turkish anti-government protesters in Gezi Park, Istanbul. Photograph: Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images On 25 June, three weeks after the Gezi Park protest started, an American friend sent me an email. He asked me whether I was OK, and hoped that the [...] → Read the full article…

Turkey Accounts of Violence: Turkey vs. the Police: Ethem Sarisülük, the Protester Who Was Murdered by the Police

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On the second day of the nationwide Gezi Park protests, June 1st, Ethem Sarısülük, a laborer and human-rights activist was shot in the head by a policeman. After spending 11 critical days at the intensive care unit, news of Ethem’s brain death arrived on June 12, only to be followed by his clinical death on June 14. Despite the hard [...] → Read the full article…

Jadaliyya: Erdogan’s masculinity and the language of the Gezi resistance

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Most observers of Turkey have been surprised by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s unwillingness to compromise with the Gezi Park protestors, whose resistance for the preservation of an İstanbul park has transformed into a nationwide wave of popular urban protests—despite ongoing efforts at violent suppression—and threatens to become a full-fledged political, and economic, crisis. When Erdoğan hastily left the country [...] → Read the full article…