From the Social Forums Period to the June Resistance: Tension Between Mass Mobilization and Political Strategy in Turkey

Mutlucan Şahan ()
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Mutlucan Şahan: Galatasaray University

A chapter in Non-Western Social Movements and Participatory Democracy, 2017, pp 101-114 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter analyzes the organizational strategies of Turkish opposition movements against neoliberal policies, and their mixed record of success leading up to the Gezi Park protests in June 2013. With the social forums period, an approach which prioritized the social before the political and a decentralized network before a central organization gained acceptance among constituents of Turkey’s opposition. This chapter aims to evaluate the course of the social movements in Turkey beginning from the 1990s, their ties to the political climate worldwide, and the June uprising in terms of the tension between mass mobilization and the political strategy that emerged during the social forums period.

Keywords: Social Movement; Political Organization; Global Movement; Political Strategy; Mass Mobilization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-51454-3_7

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