Anger over Ankara response is a product of Turkish government’s past record

Cemal Burak Tansel | October 15, 2015

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.

Turkish voters will go to the polls on November 1, still reeling from the horrific bombings at a peace demonstration in Ankara on October 10.

The labour, peace and democracy rally in Ankara [...]

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Sites of Autogestion in the Periphery: Spatial Movements in Turkey

Ertan Erol | March 13, 2015

As a part of the conference on ‘Financialisation, Crisis, Social Protests and Development Alternatives in Southeast Europe’, held at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara (14-15 February 2014), I had an opportunity to think and discuss on the context, potentials and limits of the [...]

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Challenging Neoliberalism at Turkey’s Gezi Park

Efe Can Gürcan | October 20, 2014

The Gezi Park Protests (GPPs) began on May 31, 2013 as a localised demonstration against the destruction of a public park at the heart of Istanbul. It soon turned into a nationwide anti-government protest cycle of unprecedented form and scale in Turkey’s history. Our understanding of the [...]

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