Peaceful Opposition in Izmir

by Levi Armlovich I’ve been in Turkey for just over a week now, and what a week it’s been!  I got to Izmir, where I’ll be staying for two months and taking language courses, the same night that nation-wide protests began after police violently attempted to disperse a minor environmental protest in Istanbul that morning.  The first couple jetlagged nights I was here I saw clouds of tear gas at the end of my street.  Once, at about 2am, a group of police officers with clubs in hand...

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