Journalism Exiled but Hopeful: Rewriting Narratives from the Margins

Since the Gezi Resistance in 2013, a new media system has been built in Turkey. During the establishment of this new propaganda machine, lots of journalists and media workers have been exiled. Now, there are many journalists in Germany trying to re-build their lives, professions and themselves as activists. Besides them, academics are expelled and exiled, continuing their activism as “new wave media actors”. This article focuses on their production processes and the obstacles they faced in a new country and transnational space. How and whether they can build critical positions in Germany and whether they can continue to produce would be discussed from an empirical ethnographic framework. The author will frame their activism as post-Gezi diaspora activism.