{"id":1161059,"date":"2023-07-29T14:04:22","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T14:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=05ae3bba8cf2db94963ed7b7d16c7665"},"modified":"2023-07-29T14:04:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T14:04:22","slug":"after-erdogans-victory-movements-in-turkey-must-fight-beyond-the-ballot-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/07\/29\/after-erdogans-victory-movements-in-turkey-must-fight-beyond-the-ballot-box\/","title":{"rendered":"After Erdo\u011fan\u2019s Victory, Movements in Turkey Must Fight Beyond the Ballot Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years ago, in June 2013, I was tear-gassed and chased down city streets by the riot police in Istanbul alongside tens of thousands of others participating in a nationwide uprising in Turkey. Our crime was to assemble for a demonstration in Taksim Square after the eviction of the occupation and the spread of the uprising that had begun at Gezi Park. Pushed back into the alleyways of Istiklal...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/after-erdogans-victory-movements-in-turkey-must-fight-beyond-the-ballot-box\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/after-erdogans-victory-movements-in-turkey-must-fight-beyond-the-ballot-box\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freedom cannot be tied down to the ballot box, but this is what happened in the aftermath of the Gezi uprising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28742,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[476,66679,6,4711,1321,1134,1320],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1161059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1161060,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161059\/revisions\/1161060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1161059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1161059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1161059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}