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Gezi Park protests
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Key facts
- Date
- 28 May – 20 August 2013 , (2 months, 3 weeks and 3 days)
- Location
- 90 locations in Turkey including Istanbul , Ankara , İzmir , Hatay , Balıkesir , Bursa , Kahramanmaraş , Adana , Mersin , Kayseri , Konya , Eskişehir , Antalya , Isparta , Denizli , Muğla , Trabzon , Edirne , Erzurum , Malatya , Samsun , Dozens of cities within the Turkish diaspora
- Caused by
- Authoritarianism of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Lack of public consultation Violation of democratic rights Media censorship and disinformation Use of excessive force by police Government policies connected to the Syrian Civil War Alcohol restrictions Center-periphery dissonance
- Goals
- Protecting Gezi Park and the public places Defending freedom of speech and right to assembly Banning the usage of chemical gas by state forces against protesters Resignation of Erdoğan's government Free media Fair elections
- Methods
- Sit-ins , strike actions , demonstrations , online activism , protest marches , civil disobedience , civil resistance , cacerolazo
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- protest
- Has part
- chapulling
- Named after
- Gezi Park
- Country
- Turkey
- Located in
- Ankara
- Location
- Turkey
- Number of deaths
- 11
- Motto
- Taksim her yerde, direnç her yerde!
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- Commons category
- 2013 Taksim Gezi Park protests
- start time
- 2013-05-28
- topic's main category
- Category:Gezi Park protests
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Encyclopedic overview
Lead figures
Government leaders:
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gezi Park protests” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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