Turkey: Public Theaters in the Crosshairs of Culture War
May 18, 2012 - 2:24pm, by Dorian Jones
Turkey’s government is embroiled in a bitter dispute with secular-minded actors over freedom of expression in public theaters. Officials insist they respect the concept of artistic freedom, but Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has publicly derided stage actors as “Jacobins” who undermine traditional Turkish values.
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