Tag Archives: Occupy Gezi/Taksim

Remembering the Gezi Park/Taksim Square uprising of 2013

Posted on June 6, 2023 by Julius Gavroche

They are the enemies of hope, my love, of flowing water and the fruitful tree, of life growing and unfolding. Death as branded them – Rotting teeth, decaying flesh – and soon they will be dead and gone for good. … Continue reading →

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The Gezi Resistance, June 2013

Posted on June 22, 2022 by Julius Gavroche

Going back to Turkey and the Gezi Park insurrection, and keeping the memory of the latter alive, with the CrimethInc. collective (20/06/2022) … Early on May 28, 2013, a bulldozer arrived in Gezi Park, at the center of Istanbul, and … Continue reading →

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Erdogan’s turkey: The government of fear and terror

Posted on July 19, 2016 by Julius Gavroche

In the wake of the failed coup attempt in turkey on the night of the 15th of July, Erdogan and his AKP government has unleashed the only weapon by which he rules those who fall outside his religious-nationalist ambitions, fear … Continue reading →

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Terror against autonomy: Turkey

Posted on December 16, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

Photographs by Ilyas Akengin Varto, Semdinli, Cizre, Nusaybin, Beytussebap, Bismil, Silvan, Tusba, Sirnak, Gever, Derik, Silopi, Diyarbakir: these are names of martyred towns and villages of eastern, largely kurdish, turkey.  They mark points in a cartography of terror carried out … Continue reading →

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A war against autonomy: Turkey

Posted on September 14, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

“Yesterday Kobane, today Cizre” could be read among the slogans carried in a solidarity protest with the kurdish cause in Paris last Thursday, September 10.  As in other european cities, the protest was called to denounce the the ongoing military … Continue reading →

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A permanent war without borders: Turkey

Posted on July 30, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

It is often said that the first victim of war is the truth.  What is ignored in this common sense wisdom is that all war is, among other things, a war between truths, a war for the creation of truth. … Continue reading →

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Landscapes of oppression, gestures of resistance: Istanbul

Posted on July 18, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

Sunday Today is Sunday. Today they led me out into the sun for the first time. And for the first time in my life I stood immovable Amazed at how distant the sky was How vast, How blue Respectfully I … Continue reading →

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The refusal of sovereignty; An anarchist reading of “occupy” movements

Posted on July 9, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

(El Roto) The “occupy” movements that emerged in 2011 in different parts of the world continue to merit reflection as the most radical challenge to State forms and Capitalism in recent memory.  We share below an essay by a friend … Continue reading →

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From Gazi to Gezi – a stone’s throw away

Posted on May 30, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

A new film on the Gezi uprising by Ross Domoney captures the poetry behind a rebellion; the art of resistance and the power of the spoken word.

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Wars for the commons in turkey

Posted on December 10, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

While turkey’s president celebrates his new presidential palace, the White Palace in Ankara, of over one thousand rooms, constructed on more than 150,000 sq m, and costing over 600 million  dollars (BBC 14/11/2014), an okupied social social in the Kadiköy … Continue reading →

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