The impacts of the Turkish government’s conspiratorial framing of the Gezi Park protests.
What happens when a prime minister frames a momentous protest as a foreign conspiracy? The Turkish government’s reaction to the Gezi Park protests, a reaction centred on a conspiracy theory about an ‘interest rate lobby,’ provides a unique case to explore the impacts of conspiracy theories about big...
| Published in: | Social Movement Studies Vol. 16; no. 5; pp. 610 - 623 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Sep2017
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