Garvan Walshe: The mining disaster that may end Erdogan’s presidential ambitions
By Garvan Walshe
Last updated: May 20, 2014 at 8:38 am
Tuesday week will mark a year since police first tried to clear Istanbul’s Gezi Park, sparking enormous protests. Turkey was bracing itself for a new round of riots. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s Prime Minister, had looked set to overcome the disturbance. The protesters – though drawing in more than the hippies and leftists he had originally dismissed them as – were, like opponents of the Vietnam war in America, very much a privileged minority.
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