Taksim Gezi Park Reading List June 7

This is a brief and incomplete list of some of the pieces that have been published -- it was reasonably current as of June 5, but is likely well out of date. Please feel free to write to me [firstname.lastnameATgmail] or leave comments about other things I have missed. It goes without saying that this list couldn't have been compiled without the help of Elizabeth Angell.

A Starting Point

Elif Batuman, “Occupy Gezi: Police Against Protestors in Istanbul,” New Yorker

Claire Berlinski, “Erdoğan Over the Edge,” City Journal

Jay Casson, “The Right to the City Movement and the Turkish Summer,” Jadaliyya

Juan Cole, “Defiant Erdoğan Risks Turkish Economy as Unions Enter the Fray,” Informed Comment

Didem Collinsworth, “Turkey’s Protests: The Politics of an Unexpected Movement,” International Crisis Group

Agnes Czajka and Bora Isyar, “Everywhere is Taksim, Resistance is Everywhere,” Jadaliyya

Duvardaki Sesler [The Voices Upon The Walls]

Ali Gökpinar, “Neither Turkish Spring Nor Velvet Revolution,” Open Democracy

Peter Gratton, "The Events in Turkey: A Virtual Theme Issue for Background," Environment and Planning D
Çağlar Keyder, “First Person Singular,” London Review of Books

Mark LeVine, “So Much for the Turkish Model,” Al-Jazeera

"Listening to Taksim," GIT-North America

Neophytos Loizides, “Reforming Turkish Democracy,” Open Democracy

Noir, “From Privileged Activism to an Outcry Against Repression,” Noir

John McSweeny, “Turkish Hopes for a New Beginning,” Open Democracy

Mashallah News Team, “Gezi Park Occupation Live Blog,” Mashallah News

Mashallah News Team, "From A Revolutionary Muslim," Mashallah News

Müsteriklerimiz, “Today We Are All Someone New!” Open Democracy

Kerem Öktem, “Turkey, From Tahrir to Taksim,” Open Democracy

Zihni Özdil, “Why The Gezi Park Protests Do Not Herald A Turkish Spring (Yet),” Muftah

Umut Özge, “Make No Mistake, Revolutionary Struggle in Turkey is Up and Running,” Open Democracy

Jon Queally, “In Turkey: ‘Resisting for Our Future’” Common Dreams

Julian Sarayer, “A Turkish Spring?” Open Democracy

Evren Savcı, “On the ‘Turkish Model’: Neoliberal Democracy with Teargas,” Jadaliyya

Sungur Savran, “A Taste of Tahrir at Taksim,” Gerçek

Defne Suman, “What is Happening in Istanbul?” İnsanlık Hali

“Sunday Reading,” Zuzungu [links to articles, songs, poems]

Nathalie Tocci, “A U-Turn in Turkish Politics? Gezi Park in Perspective,” Open Democracy

Amar Toor, “Tweeting Through Tear Gas: Violence in Turkey Unfolds...” The Verge

Cihan Tuğal, “Occupy Gezi: The Limits of Turkey’s Neoliberal Success,” Jadaliyya

Various, “The Day Turkey Rose Up––In Pictures,” Roar Magazine

Various, Occupy Gezi, Occupy Turkey [links to a range of news reports and analysis]

Emrah Yıldız, “Alignments of Dissent and Politics of Naming: Assembling Resistance in Turkey,” Jadaliyya