PLURALITY – THEN IN GEZI, NOW AT BALLOT BOXES

Gezi was the common cry for freedom from a host of societal actors that embraced Turkey’s ideational, religious, ethnic and gender diversity in all its different colors. Incidentally these are also the differences with which todays, anti-authoritarian opposition block is formed. In this panel numerous participants representing this diversity of backgrounds address the question of how and why it was possible for them »to act in concert« in all their plurality against the authoritarian excesses of a repressive government – then in Gezi, now at the ballot boxes.

With Yiğit Aksakoğlu, Gizem Aksu, Gamze Elvan, Evin Kışanak, Erden Kosova & Emine Uçak

Part of 6. Berliner Herbstsalon GEZİ – TEN YEARS AFTER. Ein Prolog im Frühling