Italo Rondinella

published a feature about me, my work, and the project that my partner and I founded a year ago

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Thanks to for the interview and for writing such a great article

My new video report on the protests that broke out in Turkey following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu is now available on RSI.

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Photo 1 – A street vendor hands out cardboard masks of Ekrem İmamoğlu, Istanbul’s mayor recently arrested for alleged corruption, outside the metro.

Photo 2 – An elderly protester in a Pikachu headpiece. The 1990s pop icon became a protest symbol after footage showed someone in costume fleeing police in Antalya on 28 March.

Photo 3 – CHP officials, organisers of the 29 March 2025 rally in Maltepe, say over 2 million people joined the protest on Istanbul’s Asian side.

Photo 4 – Riot police were out in force at the Maltepe rally, but no clashes were reported.

Photo 5 – Among protesters in both Saraçhane and Maltepe were far-right Grey Wolves. Though claiming to be apolitical and part of a cultural foundation (Idealist Hearths), they are linked to the Zafer Partisi, which holds no seats in parliament.

Photo 6 – Most protesters share a near-idolatrous reverence for Atatürk, founder of the Turkish Republic. The term “nearly” matters, as Kurds, Armenians and other minorities often reject being called “children of the father of the nation”.
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