The Gezi Effect

An exploration of events and the social media representations of #occupygezi

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Turkey's Erdogan says corruption probe aims to smear government

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday denounced a corruption crackdown on his allies months ahead of elections as a dirty operation to smear his administration and undermine

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/18/us-turkey-corruption-idUSBRE9BH0PL20131218

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Everyday I'm Çapuling !

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http://park-fiction.net/park-fiction-is-now-gezi-park-hamburg-16-06-2013/

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The Famous Woman in Red being brutally pepper-sprayed. One of the many icons of the Gezi Protests.

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The "Plan" for Gezi's redevelopment

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San Francisco's Gezi Garden's banner

via: Indybay

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"Come om, sweetie! Let's go to the Park!" Gezi works its way into political cartoons.

from: Smells like Gezi Spirit

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#occupygezi barricade

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The Rumi poem “Sen de Gel” is inscribed in his shrine in Konya, Turkey and was perhaps best translated in spirit by Coleman Barks:

Come, come, whoever you are, Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn’t matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again, come, come.

via Zeynep Turcekfi "

“Come, Come, Whoever You Are.” As a Pluralist Movement Emerges from Gezi Park in Turkey"

 http://technosociology.org/?p=1421

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One of the many rainbow stairs, Istanbul (TR) @Taksim protests, 11/2013.

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Her Yer Taksim! Taksim Solidarity Demonstrations All Around Germany TODAY, June 8! Berlin, Bonn, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, Hannover, Munich, Nuernberg, Stuttgart Berlin:  http://facebook.com/events/135142193349719/ Bonn:  http://facebook.com/events/612690825417146/ Düsseldorf:  http://facebook.com/events/528803543847174/

Frankfurt:  http://facebook.com/events/519484331434495/  

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  An Occupy Gezi demonstrator- Claudia Borgia, 2013

(I saved it off the BBC I think- haven’t been able to find the original since.) 

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Everyday I’m çapuling tayyip asdfghjklşi 

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"In only a few days, the word ‘chapulling’ has taken international vocabulary by storm. Stemming from Turkish çapulcu, roughly meaning ‘looters’, it was used by prime minister Erdogan on June 2 to describe the people who had occupied Gezi Park. Instead of taking offense, it was immediately reappropriated by the protesters, who now proudly identify as ‘chapullers’. Almost overnight, the meaning of the word has changed from looters to rebels."

-via postvirtual

Note that Erdogan's face appears in place of the dudes from LFMAO.

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Police brutality in Turkey.