DISPATCHES FROM THE EDGE:Turkey: Uprising’s Currents Run Deep
By Conn Hallinan
Friday August 02, 2013 - 09:00:00 AM
For the time being, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyio Erdogan—with the liberal use of brutal police tactics and massive amounts of tear gas that killed four people and injured more than 8,000— appears to have successfully crushed demonstrations aimed at blocking the demolition of Gezi Park in central Istanbul and has weathered a similar outbreak in the country’s capital, Ankara.
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