A year after Taksim, Turkey is in flux
By Hilary Stauffer
Published: May 22, 2014
The writer is an international lawyer who has worked on human rights and humanitarian law projects in the US, Europe, Asia and Africa
Next week will mark the one-year anniversary of the Taksim Square protests in Turkey. Demonstrators were originally upset over plans to further urbanise one of Istanbul’s cherished green spaces, but as with other protests that have swept through the Muslim world since 2011, the initial spark soon transformed into a wider referendum on middle-class dissatisfaction with their government.
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