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# The Week in 1 Minute: Putting Gezi into perspective (June 3 – 9 on openDemocracy)
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/week-in-1-minute-putting-gezi-into-perspective-june-3-9-on-opendemocracy/
- Published: 2003-06-02T23:06:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-23T00:37:26.000Z
- Description: We have spent the week, poised between Europe and the Middle East, putting Gezi Park into perspective, with Nathalie Tocci concerned for Turkey’s democracy, Neophytos Loizides identifying a crisis of majoritarianism, and Ali Gokpinar, shining a spotlight on relations between by safesaver" href="ht
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- Tags: The Week in 1 Minute, #Migrated, #en, #Import 2026-04-09 17:02, #appended-excerpt

[Burce Celik](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/bed9c8b8ab/b5696a98c8/4690b1f4e2&ref=opendemocracy.net) looks at **the dynamic role of the new media in uniting this many-faceted cry for freedom and democracy**, while [Umut Özge](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/bed9c8b8ab/b5696a98c8/0180fd2b0f&ref=opendemocracy.net) challenges Juan Cole to grasp the full scale of political rejection involved, [Kerem Oktem](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/bed9c8b8ab/b5696a98c8/3f99a71879&ref=opendemocracy.net) calls for an end to autocracy, and returns to join his voice to that of [Calypso Nikolaidis and Karabekir Akkoyunlu](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/bed9c8b8ab/b5696a98c8/625ed40842&ref=opendemocracy.net) to say that the AKP dream of unfettered economic growth and influence is over.   
  
Our Turkey authors have been sought after and their writings recommended, by [Eurozine](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/bed9c8b8ab/b5696a98c8/f363de7103&ref=opendemocracy.net), Anne–Marie Slaughter and many others. **As the implications of these battling streets sink in**, maybe we [think of populism](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/bed9c8b8ab/b5696a98c8/5cc56cdcf0&ref=opendemocracy.net) with Philippe Marlière differently. We look at 50.50’s Heather McRobie on [patriarchy and militarism in Egypt](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/bed9c8b8ab/b5696a98c8/6fb744de96&ref=opendemocracy.net) in the discussion on the [subordination of women in the Arab region](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/bed9c8b8ab/b5696a98c8/fea240b5c8&ref=opendemocracy.net) in a slightly new way; reconsider [This week’s window on the Middle East](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/bed9c8b8ab/b5696a98c8/a6365afff3&ref=opendemocracy.net), the quagmires of [Syria](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/bed9c8b8ab/b5696a98c8/9a29e79590&ref=opendemocracy.net) and [Iraq](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/bed9c8b8ab/b5696a98c8/a4c6e00178&ref=opendemocracy.net), and [disagreements](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/bed9c8b8ab/b5696a98c8/2ceabe82c8&ref=opendemocracy.net) around [Hezbollah](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/bed9c8b8ab/b5696a98c8/dbcc9f6912&ref=opendemocracy.net), or the need for new approaches to the [Iran](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/bed9c8b8ab/b5696a98c8/46c65efaf1&ref=opendemocracy.net) nuclear stand-off or that of the [Palestinian territories](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/bed9c8b8ab/b5696a98c8/060fd42696&ref=opendemocracy.net), from a new angle. Questions asked by Ida Dominijanni - [What Europe? What bottom up?](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/bed9c8b8ab/b5696a98c8/fc7a69e6f0&ref=opendemocracy.net) – have a stronger resonance. Dmitry Travin on Russian [disillusionment](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/bed9c8b8ab/b5696a98c8/49e70ef692&ref=opendemocracy.net) becomes an interesting point of contrast, and [what Quebec students have learned](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/bed9c8b8ab/b5696a98c8/e612ac37c5&ref=opendemocracy.net), a small echo.  
  
oDRussia has [Euan Grant](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/bed9c8b8ab/b5696a98c8/9cdca9e526&ref=opendemocracy.net) confirming our worst suspicions on why Russians with money love London, and [Vladimir Shlapentokh](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/bed9c8b8ab/b5696a98c8/97abf60c97&ref=opendemocracy.net) explaining **why the Kremlin has become totally indifferent to western outrage**.  
  
*Can Europe make it?* offers us Henrik Uterwedde’s upbeat account of [Franco-German cooperation](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/bed9c8b8ab/b5696a98c8/a2868d078b&ref=opendemocracy.net) to lift our spirits while we read about how little is done across Europe for [Roma children](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/bed9c8b8ab/b5696a98c8/f163f6281d&ref=opendemocracy.net), having just [considered](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/bed9c8b8ab/b5696a98c8/387dc7442a&ref=opendemocracy.net) **the silence in the US immigration bill on the deportation of children**. In the UK too, controversies around immigration reach [OurNHS](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/bed9c8b8ab/b5696a98c8/feb267af03&ref=opendemocracy.net), joining the contradiction in terms that is [neoliberal healthcare](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/bed9c8b8ab/b5696a98c8/53e13a6446&ref=opendemocracy.net). [Richard Whittell](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/bed9c8b8ab/b5696a98c8/83dbaecf9b&ref=opendemocracy.net) has corporate profiteering in his sights; [Mel Kelly](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/bed9c8b8ab/b5696a98c8/b5506818e8&ref=opendemocracy.net) looks at the UK bedroom tax; and Clare Sambrook is on the case at [G4S’ annual meeting](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/bed9c8b8ab/b5696a98c8/6cc3900ada&ref=opendemocracy.net).  
  
We think about **green economies** with [John Barry](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/bed9c8b8ab/b5696a98c8/6144747760&ref=opendemocracy.net), **limits to growth** with [Victor Anderson](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/bed9c8b8ab/b5696a98c8/6d994eb272&ref=opendemocracy.net), and **climate shift** with [Paul Rogers](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/bed9c8b8ab/b5696a98c8/a1c3e0ca74&ref=opendemocracy.net), despite all incitements to the contrary. 50.50 covers [women’s rights in the Congo](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/bed9c8b8ab/b5696a98c8/8c30d2a290&ref=opendemocracy.net), [militarized masculinity](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/bed9c8b8ab/b5696a98c8/93e0c4ef45&ref=opendemocracy.net), and [men thinking about men](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/bed9c8b8ab/b5696a98c8/34c860e21e&ref=opendemocracy.net); and [Delwar Hussain](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/bed9c8b8ab/b5696a98c8/c0e16416c5&ref=opendemocracy.net) has a story of large-scale developmental ambition on the Bangladesh/India border, with photographs not to be missed.  
  
**Don’t miss:**

- Gezi Park videos [one](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/bed9c8b8ab/b5696a98c8/f7dc7ee161/v=demnc4sQ0VI&ref=opendemocracy.net), [two](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/bed9c8b8ab/b5696a98c8/c9eb2395c1/feature=player%5Fembedded&v=o-kbuS-anD4&ref=opendemocracy.net) and [three](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/bed9c8b8ab/b5696a98c8/ee8b1bcfd9/v=3h5x1osB6KU&feature=youtu.be&ref=opendemocracy.net), and [photos](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/bed9c8b8ab/b5696a98c8/ecab9cc769&ref=opendemocracy.net)
- [An American in jail for being an anarchist](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/bed9c8b8ab/b5696a98c8/6fee2eb12a&ref=opendemocracy.net)
- [Another American, hiding in Hong Kong after blowing the whistle on PRISM](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/bed9c8b8ab/b5696a98c8/0837deb579&ref=opendemocracy.net) (video interview with Edward Snowden)

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We have spent the week, **poised between Europe and the Middle East**, putting [Gezi Park](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/bed9c8b8ab/b5696a98c8/7d64096ab1&ref=opendemocracy.net) into perspective, with [Nathalie Tocci](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/bed9c8b8ab/b5696a98c8/4d868176d1&ref=opendemocracy.net) concerned for Turkey’s democracy, [Neophytos Loizides](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/bed9c8b8ab/b5696a98c8/a49cf9bea9&ref=opendemocracy.net) identifying a crisis of majoritarianism, and [Ali Gokpinar](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/bed9c8b8ab/b5696a98c8/cb19e77545&ref=opendemocracy.net), shining a spotlight on relations between  by safesaver" href="http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/1041587/bed9c8b8ab/520111455/b5696a98c8/#">business, media and government