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some then taken place isn't it
and it's fascinating because
and i can't quite tell
that i've seen some uh... some personal emails written to some folks that on a
uh...
an email it's time to do it
apart of that
to what extent
the concerns with in turkey
that they're secular tradition was under threat
plays into this
apparently the this issue
of
the park
known as pack his taxon square this isn't enough stumble the stumble
and gets the park
which is part of that square
uh... these plans were first announced in twenty eleven
the idea
was that they were tear down basically a lot of things in this square to make
to crew create new trainees
alda are shops that have been there for literally
harder to be resort
uh... to house a shopping mall and condominiums
it would also destroyed one of the few good green spaces left in the city
he would obliterate
the public character of tax in square
and there is some speculation
part of the agenda if not
and less speculation that one of the
byproducts of this is is that
you're taking away one of the biggest public spaces where people meet
gather exchange information
uh...
and communicate with each other
so over the past
well i guess only sixty eight months or so
um...
there have been growing protest
as decides of this project and what it involves has grown
in march of twenty thirteen
bmx theater
which has been an operation as since nineteen twenty four
ehrlich of the loop providing independent cinema
uh... was demolished
in december
pastry house
which has been in the same location for seventy years or so eighty years
uh... was destroyed
back in uh... early may fifty well i guess
uses late is may twenty eighth
fifty protesters were protecting treason our borders of the park
on may twenty ninth protester were continuing their occupation of guess he
park
um...
protesting
the destruction of somewhere between three hundred and fifty thousand and two
million trees
depends on who your uh... talking to you
and then apparently in the early uh... morning hours uh... may thirty first
only four days ago
police attacked now the protesters who had gathered uh... hood numbered in the
thousands
who work dad are named as the park
and talk to him
the police are using indiscriminate use of tear gas
the throwing canisters into hotels cafes
into the metro station where people had taken refuge
by early morning of june first thousand started to march
from the asian side of the standoff to tax them crossing
the boss forest bridge on foot
and apparently what has happened even though the government has done its best
to sort of like shot down
uh... media reporting of this carly c_n_n_
the turkish version of c_n_n_
c_n_n_ international i'm not sure exactly what it was called
um... c_n_n_ turk
was during the course of this incredible um... crackdown
c_n_n_ international showing the protest
c_n_n_ terror was showing a documentary about the kind words
according to some reports please have been attacking citizens with pepper gas
agent orange
which apparently has been banned pressure water uh... cannons
and they're using civilian police it uh...
police forces against the protesters
and i apparently maybe using people who are sort of uh... put in their too
uh... infiltrators to create more tension to justify their crackdowns
and this is ongoing at this point
andy it is it
it's not quite clear with what this meeting into
in terms of of
conflicting they sort of uh...
strong-arming by
her dog and the uh... prime minister
my pronouncing wrong
everyone
the prime minister
uh...
whether this is going to sort of mutate into a larger a sort of secularists
uh... reports on clear psychiatrists also leftist secular and left this thing
jakarta
there's overlap but there's differences
big overlap i would imagine right in some ways 'cause the traditional
secularists parties in some respects were not very democratic
and so you had a thing where this party everyone's party which is a
kind of right leading islamic party was actually much more democratizing when
they first got the pro
uh... but that shifted to
these different aspects of opposition seem like they're kinda coming gather
uh... against
the market policies of airline and against anti secular policies there
don't want to
pre-event we have a resident kirk
tricky expert right pal and if you live there
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seven months to sell know a lot of just seven months state