WA wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Turkey began on 28 May 2013, initially to contest the urban development plan for Istanbul's Taksim Gezi Park. The protests were sparked by outrage at the violent eviction of a sit-in at the park protesting the plan. Subsequently, supporting protests and strikes took place across Turkey, protesting a wide range of concerns at the core of which were issues of freedom of the press, expression, and assembly, as well as the Islamist government's erosion of Turkey's secularism. With no centralised leadership beyond the small assembly that organized the original environmental protest, the protests have been compared to the Occupy movement and the May 1968 events. Social media played a key part in the protests, not least because much of the Turkish media downplayed the protests, particularly in the early stages. Three and a half million people are estimated to have taken an active part in almost 5,000 demonstrations across Turkey connected with the original Gezi Park protest. Twenty-two people were killed and more than 8,000 were injured, many critically.
WChapulling is a neologism originating in the Gezi Park protests, coined from Prime Minister Erdoğan's use of the term çapulcu to describe the protesters. Pronounced // in Turkish, çapulcu was rapidly reappropriated by the protesters, both in its original form and as the anglicized chapuller and additionally verbified chapulling, given the meaning of "fighting for your rights". Chapulling has been used in Turkish both in its anglicized form and in the hybrid word form çapuling.
WStamp Museum is a museum in Ankara, Turkey.
WAs the civil uprising phase of the Syrian Civil War turned into an all-out civil war, the 822-kilometre-long (500 mi) Syria–Turkey border became the scene of minor military clashes between the Turkish Army and various factions in the war to the south.
WThe Turkey–ISIL conflict was a series of attacks and clashes between Turkey and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) as part of the spillover of the Syrian Civil War. After years of allegations of collaboration with ISIL when they shared a border for the first half of the Syrian civil war, Turkey joined the international military intervention against ISIL in 2016, after ISIL attacks in Turkey. The Turkish Armed Forces' Operation Euphrates Shield was partly aimed at ISIL, and part of the Turkish occupation of northern Syria, around Jarabulus and al-Bab, was conquered from ISIL.
WTurkey has been diplomatically and militarily involved in the Syrian civil war since its outbreak in 2011. Initially condemning the Syrian government at the outbreak of civil unrest in Syria during the spring of 2011, the Turkish government's involvement gradually evolved into military assistance for the Free Syrian Army in July 2011, border clashes in 2012, and direct military interventions in 2016–17, in 2018, in 2019, and in 2020. The military operations have resulted in the Turkish occupation of northern Syria since August 2016.
WTurkvision Song Contest 2013 was the first edition of the Turkvision Song Contest. The contest is an inaugural competition, and was held in Eskişehir, Turkey. Twenty-four Turkic areas, which have either a large Turkic population or a widely spoken Turkic language, participated in the contest. The semi-final took place on 19 December 2013, with the final being held on 21 December 2013.