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BelgianMadCow

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3. I'm not sure - a re-surgence of the Taksim spirit could be considered "good news"

Reply to KoKo (Reply #1)

Sat Dec 28, 2013, 09:09 PM

Dec 2013

but for any protest movement, we have to consider the chance that it is being either staged or used. As starroute points out below, that opposition figure looks like a washington consensus dream team member. MSM here in Belgium had a protester say - we want neither Erdogan nor the opposite clan - we want a third way...

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Turkey: Erdogan under new pressure to quit as protesters take to the streets [View all] BelgianMadCow Dec 2013 OP

This is Not Good News...Erdogan has been a "sometimes ally of us" KoKo Dec 2013 #1

I'm not sure - a re-surgence of the Taksim spirit could be considered "good news" BelgianMadCow Dec 2013 #3

That "influential exiled cleric Fethullah G�len" is the charter schools guy starroute Dec 2013 #2

Gulen has also been accused of CIA ties starroute Dec 2013 #4

"hundreds of people took to the streets in cities across Turkey" Geeez! Coyotl Dec 2013 #5