Abstract In June 2013, Istanbul and many cities across Turkey became stages of massive
demonstrations and occupations, which were sparked by a conflict over Gezi Park in central …

Summer 2013 was a historic period in regards to political activism in Turkey. Commonly
referred to as 'the Gezi Resistance', the grass-roots mobilisation caught the rather self …

This paper analyses the 2013 Gezi Park movement in Turkey that began with localised
resistance to government plans to raze a historical public park in central Istanbul. The …

May 2013 saw Istanbul witness a massive public demonstration. The incident began on 28
May when a small group of environmental activists tried to save Gezi Park, one of the most …

Drawing on the insights of the field of political ecology, this chapter suggests that the Gezi
protests represent “the sudden but perhaps expected eruption of an urban grassroots …

On 31 May 2013, violent police intervention against the activists at Gezi Park, Istanbul,
resisting against the unlawful demolition of trees at the park, led to a popular uprising …

This paper examines how the controversial demolition of Sulukule, a Romani (Gypsy)
neighborhood in Istanbul, instigated connections between transnational Romani rights and …

Istanbul is faced with a fundamental dilemma: on the one hand, there is the logic of
globalizing the city that is animated and driven by a top-down political ambition; with its drive …

Gaining Freedoms reveals a new locus for global political change: everyday urban
contestation. Cities are often assumed hotbeds of socio-economic division, but this …

Turkey has proved to be one of the fast developing countries until the end of 2013. The new
intense construction activity was called “urban transformation”, for a better environment by …