Wall with socialist and religious graffiti

Title: Wall with socialist and religious graffiti
Description: The wall is covered with numerous graffiti. One on the left depicts communist symbols and states "Taksim is red, and will remain red!". The sentence is based on the common anti-Islamist chant "Türkiye laiktir laik kalacak!" ("Turkey is laicist, and will remain laicist!").

The other big graffiti on the bottom says "All property belongs to God", on its own a common notion in Islam and other Abrahamic religions. Here it is contextualized against private ownership, supporting the rhetoric of "Anti-capitalist Muslims", a prominent grouping in the Gezi protests.
Subject: Graffiti; Textual graffiti; Socialism; Religion
Creator: Yiğit Ünsay
Date Created: 2013-06-02
Language: tr
Bibliographic Citation: Ünsay, Yiğit. ‘The Voice of Walls: A Grounded Theory Study of the Gezi Movement’s Graffiti’. 2021.