Amini Protestoları: Devlet ve Toplum Arasında Yeni Bir Mutabakat Sözü

Year 2023, Volume: 7 Issue: 1, 101 - 126, 30.06.2023

Merve Çalhan

https://doi.org/10.33201/iranian.1231791

Abstract

Bu makale, 22 yaşındaki Mahsa Amini’nin ahlak polisi tarafından yapılan sorgulaması esnasında ölümünün ardından gelişen olayları analiz etmeyi hedeflemektedir. Protestolar, rejimin kesintisiz meşruiyetine en önemli tehdit olarak nitelendirilmiştir. Protestolar, Beyaz Çarşambalar hareketiyle kıyaslandığında, en uzun soluklu protesto hareketi olarak kayıtlara geçmiştir. Protestocular, kadınlara eşit hak talepleri için sokakları işgal etmişlerdir. Kalkışma yorumcular ve akademisyenler tarafından İran İslam Cumhuriyeti’nin varlığına önemli bir tehdit olarak tartışılmıştır. Bu cüretkar kalkışma denemesi önümüzdeki günlerde, İran’da daha kritik gelişmelere yol açabilir ve protestolar, İran’ın kemikleşmiş liderliğine önemli bir zorluk teşkil edebilir. Ancak, hükümetin devamlılığının tehdit altında olup olmadığı hala oldukça tartışılan bir konudur. Makalede, yaşanan protestoların belirleyici motifleri, protestonun sebepleri ve tecrübe edilen toplumsal hareket dalgasının toplumun farklı segmentleri arasındaki dialog kanallarının açılması üzerindeki etkisi politik süreç teorisinin temel bileşenleri üzerinden değerlendirilmiştir. Bu çerçevede, protestolarla ilgili İran ulusal basını ve uluslararası basında yer alan uzman yorumları, makale ve görüşler yorumlanmıştır.

Keywords

İsyanlar, Sosyal hareketler, Sosyal medya, Genç nüfus, Z – kuşağı

Amini Protests: Vowing for a New Commitment Between Society and State

Abstract

This article aims to contextualize Iran’s recent protests, following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while in the custody of Iran’s so-called morality police. The protests have amounted to be one of the most serious challenge to the regime’s uninterrupted legitimacy. The protests have been recorded as the longest standing one compared to the White Wednesdays Movement. Protesters have taken over the streets across the country to stand up for requesting equal rights for women. The attempt has been argued by critics and academics as posing a serious security challenge to presence of Islamic Republic. This courageous experiment could spur more significant developments in Iran over the coming days and weeks and the protesters may pose a major challenge to Iran’s entrenched leadership, however prediction of whether the survival of the government is at stake or not, is still very much debatable issue. In the article, distinctive features and reasons of Amini protests and the effects of launching dialogue channels among different segments of the society have been analyzed through main components of political process theory. In this framework of op-eds, reviews and reports which have been published in Iran national and international media platforms were interpreted.

Keywords

Uprisings, Social movements, Social media, Young population, Generation – Z

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