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Occupy Gezi, beyond the religious-secular cleavage
posted by Ateş Altınordu
The protests in Turkey started on May 27 with a modest resistance movement against the destruction of Istanbul’s Gezi Park and the planned construction, in its place, of a replica of the Ottoman artillery barracks that formerly stood there (which, however, was also to include a shopping mall). The Occupy Gezi movement has since grown exponentially and spread to other Turkish cities, largely in response to police brutality and to the inflammatory speeches of Turkey’s Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The unprecedented scope and duration of the protests—and, even more importantly, the emergent movement’s pluralistic composition and inclusive political style—make it a genuinely new phenomenon in the ninety-year history of the Republic.
An excursion through the partitions of Taksim Square
posted by Jeremy F. Walton
May 10th, 2013The Vatican Spring?
posted by The Editors
March 5th, 2013Prayer, imagination, and the voice of God—in global perspective
posted by Steven Barrie-Anthony
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