1. The “Turkish Spring”: Gezi Park Protests
Turkey Summer 2013
“The woman in the Red Dress”

2. The Legacy of Mustafa Kemal “Attaturk”
The secular Turkish Republic and the military as the defender of that principal

3. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Is the Problem Islam or Erdogan?
Sultan Tayyip

4. PM Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
AKP – Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (Justice and Development Party)
“AK” parti (means white or pure)
Elected for the third time in 2011
Turkey has average over 5% GDP growth since their first election in 2002
Is Democracy “a train from which you get off once you reach the station”.
More journalists are in jail in Turkey than in China

5. Erdogan’s Development Plan for Taksim Square

6. May 28, 2013 Fifty environmentalists camp in Istanbul’s Gezi Park to prevent its demolition. The government intends to build a shopping mall that is a replica of an Ottoman era military barracks.

7. 31 May – Due to social media, the crowd expands, followed by the 1st severe police crackdown

8. Istanbul’s Gezi Park Is it just about the trees?

9. The Turkish Media

10. Taksim Square becomes a festival as the police withdraw due to international pressure

11. Gezi Festival

12. “We are all çapulcu”
Looters, rif-raf, vandals or criminals

13. Man the Barricades!

14. Erdogan cracks down: at dawn on 11 June, Police broke through the barricades and began retaking Taksim Square around 8am. Hundreds of riot police with tear gas and rubber bullets took down banners, injuring hundreds

17. The governor of Istanbul, after promising just to retake the Square and stay out of Gezi Park, orders police to retake the Park on the afternoon of 15 June

18. Return to Normal?
Attaturk Cultural Center
Future Mosque?
After
Before

19. The “Standing Man”

20. Is It over?