ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the Gezi Rebellion’s historical gestures, attitudes, and potentials. It focuses on the roots and development of the Gezi Rebellion while questioning similar historical processes. The chapter describes a standpoint that can reveal the originality of the Gezi Rebellion as an event and demonstrates the materialist starting points from which the Gezi Rebellion progressed as a resistance. The Gezi Rebellion broke out in June 2013 under the right-wing conservative Justice and Development Party government that has been in power in Turkey since 2002. The Gezi Rebellion meant the resistance of boys, girls, minorities, commons, teenagers and white-collar workers against the imagination of a government that was striving to be patriae, father or big brother of its citizens. Utopia and salvation were analyzed continuously during and after the Gezi Rebellion resistance, accompanied by humor, creativity in the slogans and the ability to gather people from different regions.
