Istanbul protest is — and is not — about the trees
How a Reuters photo caption managed to marginalize the Gezi Park protests, limit their impact and miss the point
By Izzy Finkel
This is a fight about trees – or so it seemed at the end of last week. The protests first came to the attention of the world through this image. Before journalists had cobbled together their copy, or before their editors had decided that events warranted any, Reuters photographer Osman Orsal’s photo of policemen firing pepper spray at close range in the face of a young girl acted as a widely shared placeholder for the torrent of analysis that was to follow.
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