Ilker Atac
Atac, Ilker; Dursun, Ayse, Gezi Park protests in Turkey: new opportunities, old boundaries?
42 4The article deals with the Gezi Park protests against the demolition of a public park in Istanbul in May 2013, which turned into nationwide protests against the government. One source of these protests can be located in the conservative-religious neo-liberalism of the ruling AKP. The fundamental thesis of the authors defines the protests as an expression of a search for new spheres and forms of participatory politics, as an alternative to institutional structures.