Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Turkey's youth: the last hope for democracy? - The National

Turkey's youth: the last hope for democracy?

1.5 million young Turks are expected to vote for the first time on Sunday

Stephen Starr

June 20, 2018

Philosophy student Şafak Küçüksezer was due to submit an assignment about totalitarian states and the moral dilemmas presented in Watchmen, a dystopian comic book series, the morning in March when police raided his home. "The search of the house and the expropriation of my external hard drive, laptop and cell phone took about two hours," he recalls. "One of the officers was actually reading my copy of Watchmen as I was taken away."

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