"Turkey: Keeping up the pressure for secularism
Hundreds of thousands of pro-secular Turks rallied in the Aegean city of Izmir last week, keeping up pressure on the Islamist-rooted government after political turmoil forced early elections in July.
Undeterred by a bomb blast on the eve of the protest, demonstrators packed a seafront square in Izmir, Turkey’s third largest city, brandishing Turkish flags and portraits of the country’s secularist founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
Hundreds showed their support from the sea, sailing along the coast in boats adorned with the red-and-white national flag. Others shouted from rooftops and balconies over roads clogged with buses carrying people from out of town."
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