Unrest in Turkey: Erdogan's Love-Hate Relationship with the Web
By Oliver Trenkamp in Istanbul
The protests in Turkey keep flaring up, in the street and on the Web. Police on Wednesday arrested activists because they had allegedly sent 'libelous' tweets. It's a sign of the government's contradictory approach to the Internet, which it purports to embrace.
There's one thing you can always rely on in Istanbul -- the business acumen of its street vendors. Once the demonstration by a handful of environmental campaigners had swelled into the biggest mass protest Turkey has seen in years, the traders around Taksim Square and the Istiklal shopping street began selling masks and swimming goggles to protect against tear gas.
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