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What trees tell us about Turkey’s future | The World

What trees tell us about Turkey’s future
October 23, 2013 12:47 pm by Daniel Dombey

Four months ago demonstrations about trees in Istanbul’s Gezi Park grew into mass protests against the rule of prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Now trees – or, put another way, the polarised politics of big development projects – have sprouted up once again on Turkey’s agenda. Here are five reasons why.

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