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This article is an attempt at examining the making of a new political subject in Turkey through a study of the rhetoric and counter rhetoric generated in the course of the Gezi Park protests. President Erdogan’s language during the protests was polarizing and a sharp differentiation was made between supporters of the AKP and those who opposed its policies in the course of the protests. A new heterogeneous margin therefore came into being represented by those frustrated about the government’s attempts to impose conservative values on a secular society. Subsequently identified as marginal in Erdogan’s ‘New Turkey’, this article argues that it is interesting that this new ‘public’ was in a sense the result of changes within Turkey since the turn of the century.
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Sengupta, A. (2017). The Politics of Protest. In: Hemer, O., Persson, HÅ. (eds) In the Aftermath of Gezi. Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51853-4_3
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