What Do The ‘Gezi Park’ Protests Mean For Turkish Democracy?
By Dilshod Achilov | June 19 2013 11:36 AM
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Dr. Dilshod Achilov is in Istanbul, Turkey and has been witnessing the protests there firsthand. Here he gives his views on what the unrest means to the International Business Times. Achilov is a professor in the Department of Political Science at East Tennessee State University.
ISTANBUL, Turkey -- I was visiting Istanbul when the Gezi Park protests erupted, therefore given the unique chance to observe how the events evolved over time both as social and political events.
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