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| Subject: 'Turkey has become a police state' Fri Aug 08, 2014 9:44 pm | |
| We’re staying in the Gezi Hotel Bosphorus, overlooking the last pocket of greenery in downtown Istanbul – the controversial and shabbily at-ease Gezi Park. Ordinarily this is the place for a quiet stroll, a coffee and if there’s time, maybe a shisha pipe.
But stepping out on the morning of May 31 there’s an eeriness – no traffic, save for convoys of buses delivering thousands of helmeted cops from the suburbs and provinces. Ominously, many arrive in civilian clothing; most wield truncheons and riot shields; many are armed and a good many of them are kitted to fire teargas.
In the previous days Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan had been taunting the organisers of protests, intended to mark the first anniversary of what became the first major crisis in Erdogan’s near-decade as Prime Minister. They started as peaceful, Occupy-style protests in Gezi Park and adjacent Taksim Square, a local urban-environmental protest against the prime minister’s plan to redevelop the last downtown park as a shopping mall.
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