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“Shoulder to Shoulder Against Fascism”: Publics in Gezi Protests

In: Protest Publics

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  • Ekim Arbatli

    (National Research University Higher School of Economics (NRU-HSE))

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The Gezi protests in 2013 were the largest urban resistance in the history of modern Turkey, both in terms of their intensity and the number of participants. They revitalized grassroots movements, further polarized the already-divided Turkish society, altered the political landscape, and sent shock waves among the incumbent elite who believed they were ruling without serious public opposition until the protests. The trajectory of the regime and the elite survival strategies profoundly changed after 2013 to meet this new challenge. The protest publics model proposes a new theoretical framework for examining this emerging protest pattern, which can also shed light on our understanding of the Gezi events. In this chapter, the Gezi protests will be analyzed under the analytical framework of protest publics. First, I will show why this framework is appropriate for understanding the Gezi protests. Secondly, I will briefly discuss the political outcomes of these events by focusing on the transformative potential of protest publics in semi-authoritarian settings.

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  • Ekim Arbatli, 2019. "“Shoulder to Shoulder Against Fascism”: Publics in Gezi Protests," Societies and Political Orders in Transition, in: Nina Belyaeva & Victor Albert & Dmitry G. Zaytsev (ed.), Protest Publics, pages 33-47, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:socchp:978-3-030-05475-5_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-05475-5_3
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