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Monday, June 03, 2013

Opinion: Is Gezi Park Turkey's Tahrir Square? - CNN.com

Is Gezi Park Turkey's Tahrir Square?
By Lesley Abdela, Special to CNN
updated 8:24 PM EDT, Mon June 3, 2013

(CNN) -- In my travels around the world I have noted how attitudes toward women are a pretty accurate weather vane indicating what is happening in the wider politics of a country. In visits to Turkey in the past three years I saw rising anxiety about razor-sharp divisions between the secular and those who want a society where women "breed" for their country and wear the hijab.

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