We can only understand the Gezi Park resistance movement through the micropolitics of desire, argues Ali Akay. It drew not only the Turkish youth and elders but the whole world into a transversal resistance: from New York to Cologne, from Izmir to Adana and Antalya, and from Ankara to Bursa.
Ali Akay
is a curator and head of the sociology department at the Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts, Istanbul.