Park Defender Helped Set Off Turkey’s Crisis
ISTANBUL — It was just before midnight a week ago Monday when three friends saw the bulldozer approaching the edge of the park.
“We got in front of it and called others, and from three people it’s come to this,” said Birkan Isin, a 40-year-old lawyer, as he gestured out the picture window of a cafe in a luxury hotel toward the thousands of people occupying Taksim Square.
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