These Turks are risking everything to resist Erdogan
by Andreas Vou
| August 02, 2018 12:00 AM
On the surface, it appeared to be a hero’s welcome for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan when he touched down in the breakaway Turkish republic in the north of Cyprus earlier this month, as Turkish flags and a gun salute greeted his arrival. Away from the cameras however, there is a very different reality, as locals grow ever more opposed to what they see as the systematic overthrow of their secular values.
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