The developments following the attack of the police forces to the ones in the Gezi Park have resonated, in a short time, throughout the whole country and even the whole world. The number of the participants has increased and protests have been accelerated with the police attacks. The unexpected break out of the incident in an unexpected time and place, the oppositions’ rapid inclusion into it and the expansion of its sphere of influence show, independently of its results, that we are facing a social earthquake to be considered as an “Event” historically.

Despite this “unexpected” has broken out in an instant, it belongs to a “sphere of event” shaped by the increasing oppression and violence of the AKP government, its awkwardness, the dilemma of the Kurdish problem, the Syria failure, and the Reyhanlı disaster. It has expanded this “sphere of event” and brought the improbable possibilities into question.
The character of the “Event” is rapidly being shaped around the principle of “No to AKP regime”. Its class compounds and technology remind the Tahrir, Porto del Sol, Syntagma and Wall Street occupations. This reminder shows that the “Gezi event” has a “global” dimension. The supporting messages of the anti-capitalists communities of the world affirm it. The “plurality”, the agent of the “Gezi Park” event, is responsible not only for Turkey but also for the wave shook the world last year. This is the reason why European and American media are reluctant to regard this event.
In addition that this event has a similarity with the wave shaking the world following Tahrir, it also has an important advantage that should be emphasized during this phase insistently. Turkey has powerful, experienced leftist organizations, a Kurdish national-democratic movement, a CHP pretending to be “Social Democrat” despite its weaknesses and problems in finding its way and a secular urbanized middle-class that is nationalist-republican also in spite of its weaknesses. The east and west of this country has a leftist opposition history that has a rich and rooted struggle tradition.
Moreover, the events from Tahrir till today have been discussed and tried to be experienced. The Greek and Syriza events were especially important. The matter is not to constitute a Syriza-like formation and to replicate its policies, which is not to reiterate the failures of Greek events. The leftist groups, especially the three great ones, have to try to experience the constitution of a “historical block” against the “hegemon block” and act together in this “Event”.
Because what is principle in this “Event” is the “momentum”. Now, except blackjack, water and chemical weapons, there is a war of nerves in the country. The government tries to destroy the momentum of the opposition. Supposing that this momentum is destroyed without the empowerment and the achievement of a permanent legitimacy of the opposition in the whole country, we don’t need to be a magician to guess what can be happen in the future.
The “Republic Meetings” worried AKP very much. After the elections, as we all expected, AKP has accelerated its transactions and also its attacks: scenarios of coup d’état, detentions, no-knock raids in the mid-morning, wire tapings etc… Isn’t it clear which groups the attacks will target in the future? Protecting the momentum, in the full sense of the word, has a vital importance.

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