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çapuling

The Turkish word “çapul” has many meanings, including pillage; rage; plunder and booty to spoil; foray; root; and maraud, according to the Tureng online translation service. It’s unclear exactly where the term originated, but it might be a reference to Erdogan’s description of protesters as “looters.” The accompanying “Everyday I’m Çapuling!” video is likely designed to disarm the word by showing protesters engaged in non-looting activities that aim to counter his use of the loaded term….

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Drawings of strength and sadness

November 8, 2017May 3, 2019 Sabine Küper 0 Comments ahmet sik, Betül Vangölü Kozağaçlı, Cartoons, Cumhuriyet, Drawings, human rights, Murat Başol, Nuriye Gülmen, Semih Özakça, Tarık Tolunay, Zeynep Özatalay

  Murat Başol, Tarık Tolunay and Zeynep Özatalay are part of a group of Cartoonists, who are following central political

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Protests after the Referendum in Turkey

April 16, 2017May 3, 2019 Thomas Büsch 0 Comments capulling, constitutional referendum, Gezi Protest, turkey

Dark clouds and intense rain had banished the sunshine in Istanbul while Turkey watched the vote count of the constitutional

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The Flowers of Evil

July 20, 2016May 3, 2019 Sabine Küper 0 Comments Cartoons, Misvak, Propaganda, turkey

  “Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.”

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Cosmic Candies in Istanbul

July 5, 2016July 5, 2016 Sabine Küper 0 Comments Candies, çapuling, Eid, Future Archive, istanbul, Martians, Mega Reis, Ramadan Feast, seen beyond, Şeker Bayram
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Era of Colorful Steps

July 28, 2015May 3, 2019 Lousia Döderlein 0 Comments beyoglu, cihangir, civil disobedience, color, gezi park, Hüseyin Çetinel, istanbul, rainbow

Hüseyin Çetinel, a retired engineer from Istanbul, decided in August to color the grey steps in the Fıkdıklı-Cihangir neighbourhood and

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Love will Change the Earth

October 6, 2014October 6, 2014 Thomas Büsch 0 Comments Antalya Altın Portakal, censorship, Love will Change the Earth, movie, Reyan Tuvi

Protests against Antalya Altın Portakal (Golden Orange) International Film Festival’s exclusion of a documentary about the Gezi Park protests from

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Witnessing Gezi

August 15, 2014May 3, 2019 Thomas Büsch 0 Comments Emin Özmen, movie, salt, Witnessing Gezi

Witnessing Gezi was created with the recordings of photojournalist Emin Özmen who witnessed the protests against the urban development plan

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Guerilla Photo Exhibition

May 23, 2014May 3, 2019 Thomas Büsch 0 Comments çapuling, gezi park, Guerilla photo exhibition, photos

Over the next few days, Istanbul residents will find themselves randomly coming across photographs taken during last year’s Gezi Park

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Creative Dissent

May 20, 2014May 3, 2019 Thomas Büsch 0 Comments Ai Weiwei, Dagmar Havlová, Erdem Gündüz, Havel Prize, Human Rights Foundation, Pussy Riot, Václav Havel

The Human Rights Foundation announces May 2 the recipients of the 2014 Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent. The 2014 laureates

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Çapuling

Chapulling (Turkish: çapuling) is a neologism originating in the 2013 protests in Turkey, coined from Prime Minister Erdoğan's use of the term çapulcu (roughly translated to "looters") to describe the protestors.

The protests started with the occupation of the Istanbul Gezi Park by a small group protesting against the demolition of a symbolic park in the center of the City, finally it became a mass demonstration with a general strike on June 17th 2013.

The word Çapuling quickly caught on, adopted by the demonstrators and online activists, and became a viral video.

Many took the concept further by integrating the unique nature of the demonstrations and defined it as "to act towards taking the democracy of a nation to the next step by reminding governments of their reason for existence in a peaceful and humorous manner."

The Çapuling section of InEnArt describes and reflects the visual culture, humor and irony of the peaceful protestors (the Çapulcu) as it developed in many forms in Turkey during 2013.

The authors of InEnArt will publish regular one phenomen of the Çapuling Culture: e.g. the Duran Adam (Standing Man), the penguin, gas festival, the woman in red...

Read also: Why Turks are good in protesting!

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