Two weeks in Turkey: the story so far...
Published June 10th, 2013 - 13:24 GMT
What started as a local outcry against a governmental move to build a shopping mall in an Istanbul park, has transformed into a national crisis for Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and a personality crisis for Turkey itself.
The creeping authoritarianism of the ruling party, its open-armed embrace of neoliberal capitalism and a feeling that secular groups are being marginalised at the expense of Islamist interests, are recurring themes of conversation, and chanting, on Turkish streets.
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