The Battle of Taksim: Turkish Police Won, Democracy Lost
Posted on May 1, 2013 by Turkish Politics Updates
By Emre Kızılkaya
As I tweeted earlier in the day, Ottomans had around 60.000 soldiers in the Battle of Vienna.
Today 40.000 Turkish policemen besieged Taksim to stop laborers organize a mass demonstration in the historically symbolic square of Istanbul, shutting of almost all public transport options, including drawbridges, metro, metrobus and ferries.
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