Gezi at Ten

Ozan Siso is a researcher of international political economy and theories of state. After attaining dual Bachelor’s degrees in Sociology and French and Francophone Studies from Pennsylvania State University, Siso received his Master’s degree in Equality Studies from University College Dublin. Ufuk Gürbüzdal is an independent filmmaker and Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Middle East Technical University. Eren Karaca is a lecturer at TED University and Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey. She received her Ph.D. degree from the Department of Sociology at Binghamton University after attaining her BS and MS degrees from Middle East Technical University. Her scholarly interests lie in the fields of social policy, health policies, political economy and state-capital relations.

Notes on Contributors


1 Introduction Political Stagnation over the Past Decade

  Ufuk Gürbüzdal



Part 1

In the Footsteps of Gezi

2 The Gezi Popular Rebellion A Critical Evaluation

  Sungur Savran



3 The Gezi Resistance at the Edge of Populist Rupture

  Kürşad Ertuğrul and Aylin Topal



4 A Mirror to the Past, a Step to the Future Kernels of Organized Movement in the Gezi Uprising

  Gökhan Atılgan and Ezgi Kaya Hayatsever



Part 2

Two, Three, Many Gezis

5 Gezi and the Yellow Vests Protests “End of the World, End of the Month, Same Struggle?”

  Antoine Dolcerocca, Sebla Ayşe Kazancı and Arca Özçoban



6 Re-visiting the “Populist Moment” Geographies of Grassroots Movements and Left Populism in Greece, Spain and Turkey

  Athina Arampatzi



Part 3

Dissenting a Step Further beyond Gezi

7 Watchmen as akp’s “Brownshirts”? Regime Debate and Police Order in the Post-Gezi Period

  Selin Dingiloğlu and Çağlar Dölek



8 In Search of the Labor Movement in Turkey A Panoramic Review vis-à-vis the Gezi Uprising

  Ezgi Pınar and Adem Yeşilyurt



9 The Legacy of the Gezi Resistance and Its Effects on Turkey’s Socialist Movements of the Past Decade

  Eren Karaca and Özgür Balkılıç



10 From Gezi to the New Regime How the akp Continued Its Regime-Building after the Gezi Resistance

  Fatih Yaşlı



11 Concluding Remarks Ten Years of Contradictions and Possibilities

  Ufuk Gürbüzdal



Index