The recent and sometimes violent protests in Turkey’s major cities invite parallels to the mass protest movements of the Arab Spring. Yet this comparison is superficial at best. In fact, the biggest risk for the United States is not that Turkey, a key American ally, will experience revolution, chaos or political opening. Rather, it is that these protests have the [...] → Read the full article…
Infografik website released a graphic recapping the Gezi Resistance events between May 29 and June 6. Infografik, a website dedicated to graphic representation and sharing of societal information, released a graphic by industrial products designers Emrah Cengiz. The graphic recapped the Gezi Resistance events between May 29 and June 6. bianet is publishing “The Days of the Resistance”, a work [...] → Read the full article…
On June 4, after a week of protests that have seen hundreds of thousands of people pour into Istanbul’s Taksim Square and take to the streets of Ankara, Izmir and some 65 other cities across the country, Turkey’s President Abdullah Gül assured anxious businessmen that these events were not comparable to the revolutions that erupted in Tunisia and Egypt in [...] → Read the full article…
Here is a look at gezi protests from GLAAD, Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation: The article by Hannah Moch from June 7th covers the unification that the different and sometimes rival groups experiences as they are united to protect gezi parki. There are opinions from protestors saying the gezi movement has allowed people from different groups to listen and [...] → Read the full article…