Gezi Park - Istanbul

[ManchesterBeth]

This has state written all over it yes. Expect a reinvigorated anticommunism to surge as a method of disciplining the working-class, with a few handy nods to sunni/alevi sectarianism. Which is what this really boils down to, in actuality.

You can just hear the majority sunni population putting their feet behind Davutoglu and co. AKP are having field day after field day.

 

[ManchesterBeth]

I'm trying to work it out from the symbolism but is it possible that that hostage taker is a communist of some sort?

They are Maoist cultists known to murder their own comrades in prison. Principally acting as a group perpetrating individual acts of terror with no organic link to the unions and workers. Was established around the same time as the PKK, which is cause for even more suspicion as to their true origins.

 

[butchersapron]

Don't know if anyone is interested but there's a few articles in the latest issue of Interface Journal

Apolitical is political: an ethnographic study on the public sphere in the Gezi uprising in Turkey (event note)Balca Arda (pp. 9 – 18)
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Bodies on the streets: gender resistance and collectivity in the Gezi revolts (peer-reviewed article)Ece Canlı and Fatma Umul (pp. 19 – 39)
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