Rosa Wild

Rosa Wild is a a politics graduate from the School of Oriental and African Studies and lives in Diyarbakir, where she teaches English and studies Turkish and Kurdish.

Soma: slow massacre, the cost of Turkish success ?

There remains a class in Turkey who have been left behind. They may be supporters of the government – Soma was an AKP stronghold – but they have not seen many of the benefits of the new Turkey.

By Rosa Wild

/ 27 May 2014

But Gezi showed us

This is a negotiation between Erdogan’s neoliberal and individualist Turkey, and a Kurdistan where communal threads, both radical and conservative, run deep. But Gezi and the Kurdish movement stand on the same side in AKP's divided nation and people keep coming to protest.

By Rosa Wild

/ 20 Mar 2014