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Saturday, June 29, 2013

Turkey Protest Violence All Too Familiar to Kurds - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

Turkey Protest Violence All Too Familiar to Kurds

By: Fazel Hawramy for Al-Monitor Posted on June 28.

The brutalization of Turkish society by the Turkish security forces for most of modern Turkey's life, and particularly since the military coup of 1980, has inevitably resulted in an internal crisis of governance and the lack of a civic mentality. However, it is wrong to lay all the blame for the crisis that came to a head in Istanbul’s Gezi Park at Prime Ministers Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s doorstep.

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