Category Archives: Texts

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…

Evrensel: Torture with sugar to diabetic patient under custody!

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Nurse Hazal Kangal was taken into custody while she was on her emergency service shift. Nurse Kangal, who was on duty in Ankara, Basbakanlik during Gezi resistance had been on call for 24 hours when she was taken into custody for “being flagged” on another incident. Kangal was detained before within the scope of Hopa case, for attending the protests [...] → Read the full article…

Art in America: Poetry of Protest – An Interview with Fulya Erdemci

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The 13th Istanbul Biennial, titled “Mom, Am I Barbarian?” (Sept. 14-Oct. 20) aims to examine the public domain as a political forum. A statement released by the organizers in January said that the exhibition would highlight art projects that “activate social engagement and public forums to generate the possibility of rethinking the concept of ‘publicness’.” It also stated that the [...] → Read the full article…

İnsan Haber: LGBT “There is no violence where the state isn’t present”

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Next ‘chapullers’ of the ‘Chapullers Tell the Story of Gezi’series are LGBT individuals… They have been one of the trending topics due to their Gezi slogans and their discourses.  Two of those chapullers, Şehriban and Harun, told insanhaber.com how they have taken their place in Gezi. One of the groundbreaking elements of Gezi Resistance was LGBT individuals.  They put their [...] → Read the full article…

Bianet: The tightening screws on press freedom in Turkey – Alev Yaman

Erdoğan’s AKP administration has had more than a decade to fix this imbalance in Turkey’s anti-terror legislation. Despite repeated attempts at reform in recent years, the desperate situation in relation to these provisions persists. The Turkish media’s lack of coverage of the Gezi Park protests has thrown an unprecedented light on the country’s long-suffering Fourth Estate. Ask any Turkish journalist [...] → Read the full article…

Vocativ: A Turkish Press Gag – How Erdogan is Suffocating the Journalists

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On an early morning in October 2011, I received a text from a columnist of a Turkish daily telling me to not give up. I was traveling in Amsterdam, still jet-lagged from the day before, and I didn’t know what he meant. Then I noticed my Twitter feed was overflowing with similar messages. It was my seventh year as a columnist [...] → Read the full article…

Bianet: Mock campaign launched to choose TOMAs

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“Dakar TOMA”, “TOMAZILLA”, “At-At TOMA”, “TOMAdurma”, “Çapulsavar”, “TOMAĞĞĞ”… What’s your favorite TOMA? TOMA – acronym for Intervention Vehicle to Public Events in Turkish – has inspired Gezi Park activists to launch a mock campaign where people are to design their own TOMAs. Initiated under slogans like “Don’t expect everything from the government” and “We won’t learn how to design TOMAs [...] → Read the full article…

Artleaks: Another World Is Possible – What about an Anonymous Istanbul Biennial? – Ahmet Öğüt

On May 25, 2013, just before the beginning of the Gezi Park protests in Istanbul, I co-signed a letter by more than 100 arts and cultural practitioners that invited the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV) and 13th Istanbul Biennial curatorial team to change their authoritarian reflex and judgmental attitude to the protest staged on March 10th at a [...] → Read the full article…

Jadaliyya: Self-fulfilling prophecy: understanding the uprising in Turkey – Erdem Yoruk

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For most people around the world, the recent uprising against Turkey’s ruling Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (AKP) is still a puzzle. Why did a protest over a park lead to country-wide unrest so quickly? The Turkish government has explained what happened by resorting to a conspiracy theory, referring to an international “interest-rate lobby” that planned to overthrow the government. Yet, [...] → Read the full article…

Open Democracy: Turkey’s Gezi Park episode is far from over – Burak Kadercan

Paradoxically, Gezi Park presented Erdoğan with a golden opportunity, one that could also have helped Turkish democracy part company from the tendency of powerful political parties to drift into populism-fuelled authoritarianism. For the global media what happened in Gezi Park throughout June is now old news. Not so much for the citizens of Turkey. Gezi still remains the single most [...] → Read the full article…

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