Bilge Yesil
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Re: Seeing Roboski
politics of visibility
Thanks Hakan! When I read your piece I thought of the surveillance video of Ali Ismail Korkmaz, the 19 year-old who was beaten to death by police officers during Gezi protests. As you know, this video did not come to daylight (so to speak!) for a very lon ... -
significance of the AKM
Hi Beste, I see the practical reasons for hanging the banners on the façade of this particular building, that it was vacated, closed down, etc. So it was readily available to the protestors. However, you allude to the political, cultural significance of t ... -
emancipatory potential of social media?
Thanks for your question, Beste. Yes, one definitely needs to take into consideration the restrictive Internet regulation in Turkey. Even before the passing of the new Internet law, the legal framework presented serious challenges to online speech (as in ... -
what's new under the AKP rule
Yes, this is an important point. Media companies in Turkey have always had intricate political, economic ties with the governments. These “unholy alliances” if you like became the norm in the 80s and 90s when media ownership went through a transformation. ... -
leaked wiretaps show the extent of micro-management
Yes, the leaked wiretaps between the PM and media moguls (as well other tapes involving newspaper editors) have shown what we knew for too long: that there is intense government pressure and direct manipulation on news media. I noted in my earlier comment ... -
the mother figure in popular culture in Turkey
Hi Melis, thanks for this informative and touching post. My question is about the popular representations of the mother figure in Turkey. Do you think the authorities' call to mothers resonate with the dominant representations? And when the mothers s ...