H.1.c.ii. Journal Articles and Substantial Assessments

Volume Two -> H. Campaigns Against Government -> H.1. Challenging Authoritarianism, Neoliberalism, Corruption and Misspending 2011-2014 -> H.1.c. Turkey 2013 and 2014 -> H.1.c.ii. Journal Articles and Substantial Assessments
Reflections on Taksim – Gezi Park Protests in Turkey, ed. Gokay, Bulent; Xypolia, Ilia, Keele European Research Centre, Southeast Europe Series, Keele University, 2013 , pp. 80

Includes a range of brief essays on the Taksim protests, but also includes Immanuel Wallerstein on ‘Turkey: Dilemma of the Kurds’, and chapters making comparisons with Mexico 1968 and with Brazil, plus an analysis of ‘Two Waves of Popular Protest in 2013 Bulgaria’.
Abbas, Tahir Political Culture and National Identity in Conceptualising the Gezi Park Movement, Vol. 15, issue 4 (Fall), 2013 , pp. 19-28

Arat, Yeşim Violence, Resistance and Gezi Park, Vol. 45, issue 4 (Nov), 2013 , pp. 807-809

Examination of violence from a gender perspective by academic specializing in women’s political participation in Turkey.
Cansun, Şebnem The Gezi Park protests and youth in Turkey: Perception of Hürriyet Columnists, Vol. 6, issue 1, 2014 , pp. 92-105

Article discusses why, despite major role of young people using social media in the first three weeks of protests, columnists in the major Turkish daily Hurriyet (Liberty) often failed to mention, or underplayed, the significance of the young demonstrators.
Cook, Steven Turkey’s Democratic Mirage: The Powerbrokers Ankara Back, , 08/01/2014 pp. smaller than 0

Assessment of Turkey’s progress towards being a consolidated democracy since the Justice and Development Party came to power in 2002, arguing that despite some significant gains there are still ‘profound’ problems as the corruption allegations against Erodgan illustrate.
Gül, Murat; Dee, John; Cünük, Cahide Istanbul’s Taksim Square and Gezi Park: The Place of Protest and the Ideology of Place, Vol. 38, issue 1 (March), 2014 , pp. 63-72

Discusses the protests and their symbolism and the ideological conflicts evoked.
Letsch, Constanze A Year after the Protests, Gezi Park Nurtures the Seeds of a New Turkey, , 09/05/2014 pp. smaller than 0

Tugal, Cihan Democratic Janissaries? Turkey’s Role in the Arab Spring, issue 76 (Jul-Aug), 2012 , pp. 5-24

Criticizes the western view of Turkey as model for the Islamic world and analyses the Erdogan government’s domestic and foreign policy. Written the year before Gezi Park , but provides relevant background.
Yaila, Atilla Gezi Park Revolts: For or Against Democracy?, Vol. 15, issue 4 (Fall), 2013 , pp. 7-18

Critical examination of the multiplicity of the Gezi movement, the underlying factors and its repercussions . The author stresses the degree of violence and claims ‘the broader Gezi Park agenda represented a fundamentally Kemalist reaction against democracy’, citing the role of the Republican People’s Party as supporting evidence.

Websites recommended

A Year after the Protests, Gezi Park Nurtures the Seeds of a New Turkey (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/29/gezi-park-year-after-protests-seed...) , 2014
Democratic Janissaries? Turkey’s Role in the Arab Spring (https://newleftreview.org/II/76/cihan-tugal-democratic-janissaries) , 2012

Criticizes the western view of Turkey as model for the Islamic world and analyses the Erdogan government’s domestic and foreign policy. Written the year before Gezi Park , but provides relevant background.
Gezi Park Revolts: For or Against Democracy? (http://www.insightturkey.com/gezi-park-revolts-for-or-against-democracy/articles...) , 2013

Critical examination of the multiplicity of the Gezi movement, the underlying factors and its repercussions . The author stresses the degree of violence and claims ‘the broader Gezi Park agenda represented a fundamentally Kemalist reaction against democracy’, citing the role of the Republican People’s Party as supporting evidence.
Istanbul’s Taksim Square and Gezi Park: The Place of Protest and the Ideology of Place , 2014

Discusses the protests and their symbolism and the ideological conflicts evoked.
Political Culture and National Identity in Conceptualising the Gezi Park Movement (http://file.insightturkey.com/Files/Pdf/02_abbas_3_w.pdf) , 2013
Reflections on Taksim – Gezi Park Protests in Turkey (https://www.keele.ac.uk/journal-globalfaultlines/publications/geziReflections.pd...) Keele European Research Centre, Southeast Europe Series, Keele University, 2013

Includes a range of brief essays on the Taksim protests, but also includes Immanuel Wallerstein on ‘Turkey: Dilemma of the Kurds’, and chapters making comparisons with Mexico 1968 and with Brazil, plus an analysis of ‘Two Waves of Popular Protest in 2013 Bulgaria’.
The Gezi Park protests and youth in Turkey: Perception of Hürriyet Columnists (https://www.academia.edu/6925094/Cansun_%C5%9Eebnem._The_Gezi_Park_protests_and_...) , 2014

Article discusses why, despite major role of young people using social media in the first three weeks of protests, columnists in the major Turkish daily Hurriyet (Liberty) often failed to mention, or underplayed, the significance of the young demonstrators.
Turkey’s Democratic Mirage: The Powerbrokers Ankara Back (https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/turkey/2014-01-08/turkeys-democratic-mir...) , 2014

Assessment of Turkey’s progress towards being a consolidated democracy since the Justice and Development Party came to power in 2002, arguing that despite some significant gains there are still ‘profound’ problems as the corruption allegations against Erodgan illustrate.
Violence, Resistance and Gezi Park , 2013

Examination of violence from a gender perspective by academic specializing in women’s political participation in Turkey.

See also:

H.1.c. Turkey 2013 and 2014
, Everywhere Taksim: Sowing the Seeds for a New Turkey at Gezi, (H.1.c. Turkey 2013 and 2014)