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From the Social Forums Period to the June Resistance: Tension Between Mass Mobilization and Political Strategy in Turkey

In: Non-Western Social Movements and Participatory Democracy

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  • Mutlucan Şahan

    (Galatasaray University)

Abstract

This chapter analyzes the organizational strategies of Turkish opposition movements against neoliberal policies, and their mixed record of success leading up to the Gezi Park protests in June 2013. With the social forums period, an approach which prioritized the social before the political and a decentralized network before a central organization gained acceptance among constituents of Turkey’s opposition. This chapter aims to evaluate the course of the social movements in Turkey beginning from the 1990s, their ties to the political climate worldwide, and the June uprising in terms of the tension between mass mobilization and the political strategy that emerged during the social forums period.

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  • Mutlucan Şahan, 2017. "From the Social Forums Period to the June Resistance: Tension Between Mass Mobilization and Political Strategy in Turkey," Societies and Political Orders in Transition, in: Ekim Arbatli & Dina Rosenberg (ed.), Non-Western Social Movements and Participatory Democracy, pages 101-114, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:socchp:978-3-319-51454-3_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-51454-3_7
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