Frontline Club panel to debate ‘legacy of the Gezi Park Protests and the future of democracy in Turkiye’
In 2013, police brutality against a peaceful group protesting the destruction of Gezi Park – one of the few public green spaces in Istanbul – prompted an unprecedented wave of demonstrations that soon spread across Turkiye. The focus of the protests soon morphed into riots against the ruling AKP government’s escalating authoritarianism, then headed by […]
