Tag Archives: Occupy Turkey

Counterpunch: Flames of Resistance and Hope in Turkey by TARIQ ALI

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Zeynep Bilgehan: You released a solidarity message for the protestors from Ankara. First of all how long have you been in Ankara and what’s the purpose of your visit? Tariq Ali: I was in Ankara for three days to give a public lecture at the invitation of the Cankaya municipality that had been agreed several months ago. Naturally I observed [...] → Read the full article…

Erdogan as Putin

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…

Counterpunch: Turkey: a Second 1848 … or 1905? – Cihan Tugal

With revolt now spreading to a bedrock of capitalist stability, there is every indication that the global wave of 2011 is still alive. Turkey, marketed to the whole world as a neoliberal success story (and to the Muslim world as a model democracy), is now up in arms against authoritarianism and free market capitalism (or rather, its urban ramifications). With [...] → Read the full article…

Bianet: A Graphic History of the Gezi Resistance

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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…

Turkey at the crossroads

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…