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Tuesday, June 04, 2013

Guest post: economic implications of Turkey’s #OccupyGezi movement | beyondbrics

Guest post: economic implications of Turkey’s #OccupyGezi movement
Jun 3, 2013 6:43pm by beyondbrics

By Emre Deliveli

Everyone has been talking about the politics of the protests in Turkey, which started as resistance to the demolition of Gezi Park in central Istanbul and quickly turned, thanks to police brutality, into nationwide protests against the country’s authoritarian Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. But not much has been written about the economic implications of the protests.

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