In response to a Twitter conversation about Harringay's "Banksy", I was sent a link from Istanbul about the fate suffered by many public forms of art or typographical political expression in Turkey.
The fate of our "Banksy" suggests that this restriction on the freedom of expression may have very porous borders.
Here's the introduction from the website I was linked to:
The restrictions on freedom of expression became more dominant after Gezi Park Protests. The effects can seen on the street wall writings. Nowadays the protest writings on the walls are covering with paint immediately. As Amnesty Turkey, we decided to criticize this censorship by using the censorship itself. We shot thousands of censored wall photographs in 15 neighborhoods of İstanbul. And we created the “Typography of Censorship” from them.
To keep any discussion on this issue from being too widely dispersed, I've closed this thread and suggest that any comments are added on the "Banksy" story thread.
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