Taksim and the Left
A striking feature of the Turkish protests has been the distance that the demonstrators have put between themselves and existing center-left political parties. In this sense, Turkey's protests resemble those elsewhere, from the “Occupy Wall Street” movement to the protests in Spain and Italy.
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ISTANBUL – The small park in Taksim Square in the sprawling metropolis of Istanbul is one of the few green spaces left in the city center. On May 28, a handful of Turkish environmentalists started a peaceful protest against a redevelopment plan for the park that would replace the greenery with a replica of an Ottoman-era army barracks, a shopping mall, and apartments. But heavy-handed police repression launched a massive civic movement that has spread to the entire country.