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Erdem Yörük & Murat Yüksel

Class and Politics in Turkey’s Gezi Protests

nlr 89 September–October 2014

What social forces have been mobilized in the mass protests of recent years? Following Göran Therborn and André Singer’s contributions in NLR 85, Erdem Yörük and Murat Yüksel examine the class backgrounds and political ideologies of the Gezi Park protesters, finding that manual workers outnumbered ‘new middle classes’.