Life After Gezi Park

TURKEY - Report 02 Jun 2013 by Atilla Yesilada
We had predicted a scorching hot summer in Friday's Monthly Report, which proved prescient.AKP's shortsightedness and atrocious police brutality turned a sit-in by 50 tree huggers to rescue the trees in Gezi Park (Taksim Square Promenade) into a nation-wide outburst. The self-imposed coverage ban by main-stream media makes our job of providing fresh details difficult, but by 06:30am Istanbul time, clashes between police and radical groups were still ongoing. Is Turkey ripe for its own "Spring"?What awaits the nation and its markets?Why Has It Happened Now?We are witnessing an extraordinary ...

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