Posted by: ahmet-tuzun
Source: A Demand for Freedom : 1968 by Imren Tuzun



Understanding ‘68

Che Guevera, Simone de Beauvoir, Deniz Gezmiş, Jean Paul Sartre, Rudi Dutschke, Behice Boran are among the names of the 1968 movement. The point that unified them in the different dimensions of the movement they experienced was the demand for “freedom”.

1968 followed a different course in Europe and Turkey due to differing circumstances.

In 1968, the young generation in Europe constituted the first generation to follow the Second World War. They rebelled aga ...
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