Turkey paying for protest crackdown
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Clashes between police and demonstrators in Istanbul on 1 May and the continuing crackdown on Gulenists may have a higher cost to Turkey than its government realises
Turkey’s “two cultures” - Islamic and secularist - collided on Saturday when conservative shopkeepers chased and even beat up demonstrators trying to mark the day they regard as “the workers’ holiday”. "We are Muslims and they are terrorists," a shopkeeper was reported as telling the Istanbul daily Hurriyet.
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