Dienstag, 4. Juni 2013

link_ikon The Right to the City Movement and the Turkish Summer

by Jay Cassano Quelle: jadaliyya.com As I write this, Istanbul is under siege. The might of Istanbul's entire police force—the largest city police force in Europe—is violently cracking down on peaceful occupiers in Gezi Park. The protest, which began on 27 May, is ostensibly over a planned shopping center to be built over a park in Istanbul's central Taksim Square. Nevertheless, massive popular ...