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A savage journey to the heart of the Turkish nightmare - CONTRIBUTOR

A savage journey to the heart of the Turkish nightmare

CAN ERBİL

Last June, I was in Istanbul with 30 MBA students from Boston when the protests began. What started with the protests of an opulent shopping mall being built in Istanbul’s Gezi Park has become Turkey’s reaction to an increasingly autocratic regime intervening in citizens’ private lives by imposing conservative rules and religious imperatives.

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