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Human Rights
The Dead End of Osman Kavala’s Judiciary Persecution
Mariano Giustino 29 April 2022

Osman Kavala, the most important representative of Turkish civil society, has now been sentenced to life in prison, for having financed and supported the Gezi Park movement and having allegedly played a role in organising the attempted coup d’état of July 15th, 2016. Other 7 accused, all human rights activists including Can Atalay, Mücella Yapıcı, Çiğdem Mater, Hakan Altınay, MineÖzerden, Tayfun Kahraman and Yiğit Ali Ekmekçi, will have to face 18 years in prison.
Human Rights, International Affairs
Kafka on stage in Istanbul, again. Why Osman Kavala remains jailed
Mariano Giustino 2 March 2020

The acquittal and immediate new arrest of the philantropist shows the determination of Erdogan to uproot any remain of rule of a law in Turkey
Arts, Society
What Has Happened to “the Rest”? Some Observations on Post-Gezi Park Protests
Erdem Çolak 14 February 2019
Political Theory
Turkey’s Problem is Erdogan, not the Akp
Cengiz Aktar talks to Ada Pagliarulo 13 June 2013

In recent days the AKP, the Islamic-conservative party led by Prime Minister Erdogan, celebrated its tenth anniversary in government while unprecedented protests were being held in a number of Turkish cities. The epicentre for these protests is Istanbul and more specifically Taksim Square, which the government intends to subject to greatly opposed construction plans, involving a reduction of the Gezi Park, the building of a shopping mall and a large mosque. The police’s brutal reaction to peaceful protests has resulted in thousands more taking to the streets. There protests against Prime Minister Erdogan are extremely harsh and have at times been interpreted as secular Turkey’s reaction to Islamist repression imposing strict religious provisions through laws such as the one forbidding alcohol sales in shops after 10 p.m..