Follow Friday: @ClaireBerlinski, talking Turkey in Paris
by Matthew Clayfield
Europe
The footage out of Istanbul this week was depressingly familiar. The water cannons. The riot police. The Occupy Gezi protesters who last year captured the world’s attention — Turkish flags waving above Taksim Square and all that — once again feeling the brunt of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s security forces as they once again take to the streets.
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