Media Award for Standing Man / Duran Adam
…ent had forbidden to protest or demonstrate at all, the performance artist Erdem Gündüz stood in the same place without moving for eight hours on June 17, staring at the flag of modern Turkey’s founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk on the Atatürk Culture Center, that should be demolished by the will of the recent prime minister Erdogan. Gündüz was soon joined by a group of around 300 fellow demonstrators, who all came to stand in silence beside him, stari…
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