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POLICE MOVEMENT IS ABOUT.
AND THERE SEEM TO BE LULLS.
>> TELL OUR VIEWERS IN THE
UNITED STATES WHY WHAT WE'RE
SEEING -- THESE ARE LIVE
PICTURES FROM ISTANBUL RIGHT
NOW.
WHAT WE'RE SEEING IS SO
IMPORTANT POTENTIALLY TO THE
UNITED STATES AND OTHER NATO
ALLIES.
>> WHAT WE ARE WITNESSING IS A
POLITICAL CONFLICT IN TURKEY
THAT IS A CULT WAR.
IT NOT A REAL WAR BUT IT IS A
CULTURE WAR.
TURKEY IS A KEY NATO ALLY.
IT'S ALSO BEEN THE MODEL
EMERGING MARKET.
INVESTORS FOR THE LAST TEN YEARS
HAVE LOVED TURKEY.
WHAT YOU SEE HERE IS UNDERNEATH
THAT SURFACE ARE PRO WESTERN
ECONOMY IS A PRO GROWTH
DEMOCRACY.
YOU'RE SEEING A 1968-TYPE CLASH.
EIGHT CLASH BETWEEN CLASSES AND
SOCIAL GROUPS AND POLITICAL
PARTIES THAT HAVE VERY DIFFERENT
VISIONS OF THE COUNTRY.
AND WHAT UNITES THIS OPPOSITION,
SOME OF WHOM ARE SECULARISTS,
SOME OF WHOM ARE
ENVIRONMENTALIST, SOME ARE
LEFT-WING TYPES, IS THE FEELING
THAT PRIME MINISTER ERDOGAN HAS
TURNED INTO A KIND OF ELECTED
AUTHORITARIAN, HAS TURNED INTO A
ELECTED CZAR, DICTATOR.
AND BY DOING WHAT HE'S DOING IN
TAKSIM SQUARE, HE'S FEEDING THIS
VERY FEELING.
REMEMBER, ERDOGAN THINKS HE'S
KNOWS THIS PROBLEM VERY WELL.
HE WAS THE MAYOR OF ISTANBUL.
THAT'S HOW HE BECAME POLITICALLY
POWERFUL.
HE WAS ELECTED MAYOR, VERY
POPULAR.
BUT HE'S BEEN IN OFFICE 11