鈥淭he Gezi Resistance is the biggest popular uprising in modern Turkish history,鈥 said long-time socialist activist Nuray Sancar. 鈥淚t smashed the fear we have been living with since the military coup in 1980.鈥
It has now been a year since the Gezi Resistance started with a handful of people protecting trees in Gezi Park in Istanbul's Taksim Square in June last year. Protests spread to 79 cities across Turkey in the next few months.