gezi park protests

Democracy in Turkey is being fundamentally questioned: the ban on YouTube continues; the workers are not given permission to celebrate May Day in Taksim Square; the Gezi Report claimed that using excessive tear gas was legitimate…
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 Funerals of Berkin Elvan, Burakcan Karamanoglu and a police officer, election rallies in several cities and releases of Ergenekon suspects occupied this week’s news. The deepening political polarisation that Turkey is suffering has…
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Legislative changes were high on Turkey’s agenda as the internet bill was approved and a new intelligence bill proposed by the government was passed by the Parliament’s Internal Affairs Commission. News related to Gezi protests,…
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Tuesday, 4 February 2014 Committee Room 8, House of Commons Keynote speaker: Dr Jenny White, a writer and social anthropologist and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies and a…
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Centre for Turkey Studies and SOAS Kurdish Society Joint Forum ‘The Gezi Spirit and Its Impacts: Recent Developments in Turkey’ 19th December 2013                                  School of Oriental and African Studies…
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New date Thursday, 19th December 2013 New room Room V111, SOAS Vernon Square Campus Please see below for further details. CEFTUS and SOAS Kurdish Society Joint Forum ‘The Gezi Spirit and Its Impacts: Recent…
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  CEFTUS Westminster Debate ‘The Impacts of Democratisation and Reform Package in Turkey’ The Centre for Turkey Studies (CEFTUS) is pleased to invite you to a Westminster Debate on ‘the Impacts of Democratisation and Reform Package in…
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18 June 2013 'What began in late May as a protest by environmentalists upset at government plans to build on a public park that adjoined Taksim Square has grown into a movement against Turkish Prime Minister. The protests have…
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CENTRE FOR TURKEY STUDIES WESTMINSTER DEBATE ‘Turkey: Everything You Don’t Want to Know!’ 12 June 2013                                   Committee Room 10, House of Commons Keynote Speaker: Ece Temelkuran, Author /…
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