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Workers’ strikes joins massive protests in Turkey

Workers’ strikes joins massive protests in Turkey
By John Catalinotto on June 4, 2013 » Add the first comment.

June 4 — A small protest to keep a green space in downtown Istanbul from being turned into a giant shopping mall that began on May 30 has become a massive popular movement. Demonstrators have heroically challenged brutal police, who have used tear and pepper gas, truncheons, water cannon, smoke grenades and rubber bullets against the unarmed Turkish and Kurdish people.

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