A 64-year-old man from Istanbul, a former forestry engineer, has decided to brighten the lives of the city's inhabitants by painting an old, gray and dilapidated stairway near his home in the colors of the rainbow. A highly regarded act of urban warfare that unintentionally sparked a new wave of anti-government protests
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A 64-year-old man from Istanbul, a former forest engineer, has decided to brighten the lives of the city's inhabitants painting an old, gray and dilapidated stairway with the colors of the rainbow near his home. A much appreciated act of urban guerrilla warfare, which unintentionally triggered a new wave of anti-government protests.
When city officials sent their workers for cancel the work, repainting them in the original color, a dark concrete gray, a silent revolution has begun on Twitter. Before the municipality was able to give the new rainbow look to the steps, people all over Turkey had already taken their brushes in their hands in solidarity.
There have been so many public stairways painted in similar colors, photos of which have been posted everywhere on social media using the hashtag #DirenLadder o #ResistStairs, a reference to those who accompanied the protests against the government last June against the project to build a shopping center in place of the Gezi park, #DirenGeziPark, or ResistGeziPark.
In a video posted on YouTube, Turkish demonstrators show dozens of them, all of them painted with the rainbow colored stripes.
The most widespread hypothesis saw in the project the request for equal rights for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people. But the retiree, Huseyin Cetinel, has explained to the media that his original motivation was not activist, but the desire to make you smile.
Roberta Ragni
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