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Turkey: Uprising’s Currents Run Deep

The unrest gripping Turkey has less to do with Islam than with the AKP’s policies. For the time being, Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan — with brutal police tactics that killed four people and injured more than 8,000 — appears to...

Are Turkey’s Protests a Refutation of the Erdogan State?

The unrest gripping Turkey has less to do with Islam than with the AKP’s policies. For the time being, Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan — with brutal police tactics that killed four people and injured more than 8,000 — appears to have successfully crushed demonstrations aimed at blocking the demolition of Gezi Park in Central Istanbul and has weathered a similar outbreak in the country’s capital, Ankara. But the upsurge was...

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