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Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Welcome to the ‘New Turkey’: Five years after Gezi park, protesters face new threats of arrest · Global Voices

Welcome to the ‘New Turkey': Five years after Gezi park, protesters face new threats of arrest
Posted 20 November 2018 20:15 GMT

Scenes from the Gezi protests in Istanbul, 2013. Photo by Arzu Geybullayeva.

On the morning of November 16, police in Turkey arrested 13 people at their homes and places of work. Their supposed crime? Helping to organise protests that took place in Istanbul's Gezi Park in May 2013.

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