Hugh Pope
Author, Reporter, Editor
Tag: Gezi Park
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The June 2013 unrest in Istanbul’s Taksim Square has some extraordinary links with the 1909 events in the same place – Islamist vs. Turkish nationalist, damaged trees and an injured American journalist.
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Thoughts and pictures from Turkey’s historic scenes of cheerful civil society self-assertion in Istanbul’s Taksim Square on the weekend of 8 June 2013
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Images and impressions of the Istanbul protests one week after the outbreak of unrest in Taksim Square’s Gezi Park.
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My house in Istanbul is on one of the main arteries leading to Gezi Park and Taksim Square, giving a ringside seat to the extraordinary wave of protests gripping the city — and plentiful doses of tear gas too.
Hugh Pope 