Tag Archives: Police brutality

Kırmızı karanfil in Taksim Square: The Karagöz puppets, wordless yet again

Posted on June 22, 2013 by lizcameron

As is usual these days, I woke to the array of the puppets still standing, along with all the ‘standing men’ and ‘standing woman’ in Turkey and worldwide who are protesting the increasingly authoritarian practices and tactics of the AKP … Continue reading →

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#DİREN TÜRKİYE! 12 hours of devastation…and resilience

Posted on June 15, 2013 by lizcameron

For the past twelve hours, we (me, occasionally M. who can barely stand it, and the entire Karagoz puppet troupe that inhabits my head during this cross-cultural marriage) have been glued to the Internet in order to understand what we … Continue reading →

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