Turkey’s Class Struggle

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Publication Date June 2013
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Commentary feature. Protesters in Istanbul’s Taksim Square are taking on the Islamism that came to prominence with Erdogan’s government and which they see as a threat to secularism and civil rights. But that’s the natural outcome of the end of Kemalist authoritarianism, writes Dutch author Ian Buruma.

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Project Syndicate, 06.06.13: The trouble with democracy (via PressEurop) http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/3847061-trouble-democracy
ESO: Background information: Defiant Turkish PM Erdogan urges end to protests http://www.europeansources.info/record/defiant-turkish-pm-erdogan-urges-end-to-protests/
Blog: International Crisis Group, 04.06.13: Turkey’s Protests: The Politics of an Unexpected Movement http://www.crisisgroupblogs.org/eu-turkey-cyprus/2013/06/04/turkeys-protests-the-politics-of-an-unexpected-movement/

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