{"id":642,"date":"2014-10-26T11:09:35","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T15:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=642"},"modified":"2014-10-26T11:09:35","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T15:09:35","slug":"after-gezi-erdogan-and-political-struggle-in-turkey-roar-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=642","title":{"rendered":"After Gezi: Erdo\u011fan and political struggle in Turkey | ROAR Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roarmag.org\/2014\/10\/global-uprisings-after-gezi\/\">After Gezi: Erdo\u011fan and political struggle in Turkey | ROAR Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"post_image alignnone\" style=\"display: block; clear: both; padding: 0px; margin: 0px auto 1.571em 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/media.roarmag.org\/2014\/10\/RiotsDiyarbakir-main.png\" alt=\"Post image for After Gezi: Erdo\u011fan and political struggle in Turkey\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em 0px;\"><strong style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">The latest Global Uprisings film chronicles a year of resistance and repression that has left Turkey profoundly divided in the wake of the Gezi uprising.<br style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em 0px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em 0px;\" data-expand-tooltip=\"Click to expand description\">Political struggles over the future of Turkey have left the country profoundly divided. Former Prime Minister, now President, Tayyip Erdogan, has fueled growing polarization through his authoritarian response to protests, his large-scale urban development projects, his religious social conservatism, and most recently, through his complicity in the Islamic State\u2019s war against the Kurdish people in Northern Syria.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em 0px;\" data-expand-tooltip=\"Click to expand description\">In the year after the Gezi uprising, protests continue against the government\u2019s urban redevelopment plans, against police repression, in response to repression of the Kurdish and Alevi populations, and in honor of the martyrs that lost their lives in the uprising. Most recently, angry protests and riots have spread across the country in solidarity with the Kurdish People\u2019s Protection Units fighting against the Islamic State in Koban\u00ea, Rojava. This film chronicles a year of uprisings, resistance and repression since the Gezi uprising in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em 0px;\" data-expand-tooltip=\"Click to expand description\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Gezi: Erdo\u011fan and political struggle in Turkey | ROAR Magazine. The latest Global Uprisings film chronicles a year of resistance and repression that has left Turkey profoundly divided in the wake of the Gezi uprising. Political struggles over the future of Turkey have left the country profoundly divided. 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