Posters, banners and flags on the AKM building
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Title
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Posters, banners and flags on the AKM building
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Description
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The photo depicts Atatürk Cultural Center (AKM) during the Gezi protests. The building borders the Taksim Square and stands close to the Gezi Park. Various flags and banners were hung on the building by the public. Some of the more readable ones from left to right, top to bottom include:
- Two Çarşı banners (football fan group)
- A banner saying "All government will belong to the labor" by "The Struggle Association". The banner features an image of Deniz Gezmiş, an well-known socialist revolutionary who was executed in the 1970s.
- A banner crying "Long live revolution and socialism" by "Socialist Democracy Party"
- A banner in Kurdish that I unfortunately cannot understand
- A banner saying "Long live the unity of workers and the fraternity of peoples"
- Flag of the "Socialist Party of the Oppressed" (ESP), a very small Marxist-Leninist party
- A banner calling out "Class against class / Revolution against order / Socialism against capitalism"
- Two banners calling for a general strike
- A banner by the Socialist Refoundation Party stating "Factories, fields, political government, everything will belong to the labor"
- A banner by the "Socialist Solidarity Platform" saying "Justice or Apocalypse!"
- A big banner by the Socialist Refoundation Party addressed to Erdoğan saying "shut up tayyip!"
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Language
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en
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Spatial Coverage
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Atatürk Cultural Center