Turkish Spring?
1 June 2013 | by Ana Mingo Jaramillo
A western style ‘occupy’ movement which started on Monday to protest against the removal of Gezi Park in Istanbul (one of the last green spaces in the city centre) for the construction of a controversial shopping centre has quickly escalated into a widespread mobilisation against the government of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) of PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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