Taksim Square Protests in Turkey: a compilation of select media commentary

SACW SPECIAL ON TAKSIM SQUARE PROTESTS IN TURKEY
:: a compilation of relevant commentary for readers in South Asia
14 June 2013

contents:
a) Memories of a Public Square (Orhan Pamuk)
b) Erdogan, Gezi Park And the Headscarf (Tulin Daloglu)
c) Turkey’s protesters proclaimed as true heirs of nation’s founding father (Luke Harding)
d) Behind Turkey’s Viral Revolution, There Are Mad Men (Actually Women) (Emre Kizilkaya)
e) Educator’s jailing reveals Turkey at crossroads (Trudy Rubin)
f) Taksim Square protests: not a Turkish spring, but the new Young Turks (Betty Caplan)
g) The Turkish Government Do Not Wish To Demolish A Park, But Rather A Democracy (Chimene Suleyman)
h) What Would Ataturk Think? (Octavia Nasr)
i) For A Park And A Few Trees (Ilker Ayturk)

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SACW SPECIAL ON TAKSIM SQUARE PROTESTS IN TURKEY

a compilation of relevant commentary for readers in South Asia
[14 June 2013]
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