An Unfinished Grassroots Populism: The Gezi Park Protests in Turkey and Their Aftermath

Özen, Hayriye

doi:10.1080/13608746.2015.1099258

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“…In addition, a variety of social and ideological groups across the left-right spectrum as well as gays and lesbians, Kurds, nationalists and secular and religious Muslim groups also participated. 43 In short, the Gezi resistance campaign reflected broad popular discontent against the decade-long rule of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and Prime Minister Erdoğan. This discontent centered on several issues: the growing Islamist conservative and authoritarian rule which threatened societal secularism, 44 the increasing lack of press freedom, 45 and the escalation of arrests and prosecutions of journalists, students and human rights activists for alleged terrorism.…”

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“…The shift from the single strategy of policing to a dual strategy of policing and targeted arrests made it possible for the government both to evacuate the occupied spaces in the parks and squares and detain activists before they could recruit new participants. 61 The strategy of targeted arrests was especially effective in compressing the time frame, allowing activists little time to overcome their organizational deficits.…”

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The Gezi Park Protests and the Escalation and De-Escalation of Political Contention

Demirel-Pegg

2018

Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies

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This study argues that escalation and de-escalation processes lie at the heart of protest campaigns. These processes are largely determined by the interactions between protesters and governments, as well as the timing and types of strategies and tactics employed. The study examines the dynamics between the Turkish government and the protesters during the 2013 Gezi Protest Campaign. This campaign escalated quickly by generating massive support from different segments of the Turkish society in its earlier days, and then de-escalated and eventually demobilized without securing major concessions. By using original data collected from a Turkish newspaper, Cumhuriyet, the study illustrates how the trajectory of the Gezi campaign changed in response to the interactive dynamics between the government and the dissidents.

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The Gezi Park Protests and the Escalation and De-Escalation of Political Contention

Demirel-Pegg

2018

Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies

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“…Increasing scholarly attention to the rise in authoritarianism in Turkey has produced a growing literature on protests and pro-government interactions (Aytaç et al 2018;Özen 2015;Tufekci 2017). This growing interest has spurred systematic data collection to understand the effects of government responses to collective action (Atak 2013;Atak and della Porta 2016;Demirel-Pegg and Rasler 2021;Gümrükçü 2014;Uysal 2017;Arslanalp and Erkmen 2020b).…”

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Introducing the Turkey Protest, Repression, and Pro-Government Rally Dataset (TPRPGRD)

Kahvecioğlu

Demirel-Pegg

Aytürk

2022

Southeast European and Black Sea Studies

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The repression-protest nexus in authoritarian regimes has attracted scholarly attention of contention scholars for a long time. However, studies have generally overlooked pro-government actors' role in contentious dynamics. This article introduces an original event dataset on protests, repression, and pro-government rallies in Turkey under the rule of the Justice and Development Party during a period in which authoritarianism has increased in intensity. Using protest event analysis, this dataset includes actions of governments, pro-government actors, and dissidents hand-coded from two newspapers between 1 January 2013, and 31 December 2016. The dataset enables researchers to study pro-government rallies (PGRs), anti-government protests, and state actions during a heightened period of contention in Turkey.

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“…In 2013, protests also arose in neighbouring Turkey. These began as an environmental sit-in to prevent the uprooting of trees in Gezi Park in Istanbul, but would soon turn into a nationwide popular upheaval against the AKP government (Ozen 2015). Protests in both countries not only had an influence on the political structure but also provided voice to those on the social and political margins (Douzinas 2013;Akser and McCollum 2019).…”

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The Different Organizational Structures of Alternative Media: Through the Perspective of Alternative Media Journalists in Turkey and Greece

Ozgul

Veneti

2021

Digital Journalism

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This article analyses and compares the organizational structures of alternative media projects in Turkey and Greece; two countries that have recently witnessed networked social movements. Drawing on in-depth interviews with journalists working in six alternative media projects, we inform on the news production process, the news values and normative ideals adopted by these journalists while covering the news and explore if they make use of similar or different organizational structures. Our research invites a rethinking of alternative media to focus on their unique features and the differing experiences and values of their journalists. Our findings indicate that, alternative professional journalists' news production routines in both countries vary based on their organization's scale, normative ideals, the political and media contexts in which they operate. In this study, we reflect on what these different news production routines accomplish or fail to, and their broader implications for journalism.

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An Unfinished Grassroots Populism: The Gezi Park Protests in Turkey and Their Aftermath

Cited by 31 publications

References 24 publications

The Gezi Park Protests and the Escalation and De-Escalation of Political Contention

The Gezi Park Protests and the Escalation and De-Escalation of Political Contention

Introducing the Turkey Protest, Repression, and Pro-Government Rally Dataset (TPRPGRD)

The Different Organizational Structures of Alternative Media: Through the Perspective of Alternative Media Journalists in Turkey and Greece

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