2013 was the year of the uprising of turkish social movements. In center of these events were Taksim Square and Gezi park, sparking conutrywide protests against gentrifying common social space. Especially the movements in Istanbul proclaimed the need for a deeper and more direct form of democracy, but what happened since and how has the situation developed? This documentary highlights these questions, the connection to the events in Kobanê and a country profoundly divided.

After Gezi: Erdoğan And Political Struggle In Turkey from brandon jourdan on Vimeo.