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Turkey Moves to Silence Dissenters, but With One Eye on Its Image Abroad - NYTimes.com

Turkey Moves to Silence Dissenters, but With One Eye on Its Image Abroad

By TIM ARANGO and CEYLAN YEGINSU
Published: November 14, 2013

ISTANBUL — Late one night last summer, at the height of antigovernment demonstrations sweeping Turkey, a group of protest leaders rushed to the home of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, the capital, to negotiate a solution to the growing crisis.

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