Live from ‘Occupied’ Gezi Park: In Istanbul, a New Turkish Protest Movement Is Born
By Pelin Turgut / IstanbulJune 05, 201327 Comments
Last Friday, Ali Riza Gurs, manager of a local food business, saw the number of sit-in demonstrators at an Istanbul park swell, and spotted a problem: They were hungry and thirsty and would not leave Gezi Park, which is located in the heart of Istanbul and one of the city’s few remaining green spaces, because of bulldozers waiting to raze it under a government plan to turn it into a shopping mall.
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