GUILLAUME DARRIBAU

The tension of the month June in Istanbul has not dropped, the inhabitants of the Turkish metropolis at the crossroads of Europe and Asia are worried. In a very divided society each trying to see the future, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has understood rule to divide and maintain the uncertainty in the future. The repression of the Gezi Park was evidence and verbal provocation that he could do against the Kurds, Armenians, students, environmentalists and the protesters. Treating them better “capulcu” (looters) or at worst terrorists, talks the Prime Minister remains threatening and a part of the Turks themselves do not fit in the portrait that the party in power (AKP) projects them. Fear is installed in all communities, some are afraid of a civil war, others fear a military coup, or even hardening of the islamization of the country and fierce repression, but no one ventured to say that things will work out. All these elements created a tension that you can read on their faces, on the looks, in gestures, in the street. Captured this tension are asked questions, what tells Istanbul today, take the louse of a society changing between conservatism and future, religion and secularism, capitalism and democracy.