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Saturday, June 29, 2013

The Fascinating, Makeshift Shelters That Occupied Turkey's Protests | Co.Design: business + innovation + design

The Fascinating, Makeshift Shelters That Occupied Turkey’s Protests

Like recent protest movements that inspired it, #OccupyGezi seemed to have come out of nowhere. What began as an environmental demonstration to dispute the development of Istanbul’s Gezi Park transformed into nationwide protests involving hundreds of thousands. The crowds voiced their discontent with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s leadership, his authoritarian impulses, and the creeping defeat of secularism in Turkey.

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