Housing Crisis in the “Garden City of the East”

While people in cities across the Global North are unable to access affordable housing, their comrades in the Global South are dispossessed of houses that… It feels impossible to sit and write amidst the constant grief and urgency demanded in this ongoing genocide. Yet we feel compelled to write—compelled to document and archive the mobilisations that have emerged during this moment, in an effort to inscribe collective memories and pass on the knowledge(s) gained. To account for the successes, failures and learnings that we must carry forth and build on for our next phase of resistance. One emerging tactic has been the disruption of imperial energy circuits feeding the Zionist project. Insurgencies targeting energy have erupted globally, but this article seeks to chronicle a particular disruptive nodal point in Turkey, documenting the tactics used, learnings taken and the investigative research that has informed them. Energy in all its forms – coal, crude oil, jet fuel and natural gas – play an active role in fueling the illegal occupation of historic Palestine. Indeed, the Israeli military cannot run without a steady influx of imported fuels, whether it is crude oil fuelling military tankers, jet fuel powering fighter jets or coal electrifying