Ten Tweets on the Hypocrisy of the Turkey Protests »

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By Yavus Selim Updated "What's going on in Turkey?" is a common question on the lips of people as varied as Joseph Gordon-Levitt and some American Muslim scholars. People are finding it hard to wrap their head around the facts. The most stable, economically successful and popular democratically elected government in the Middle East has been experiencing widespread protests over... a planning application? That doesn't sound right and of course, it isn't the case at all. I do not condone violence against protestors but do want to take a closer look at the why people are gathering in Taksim Square and elsewhere in Turkey. Here are ten tweets that expose what the current "protests" in Turkey are all about: Tweet 1: So much for the trees   Yes. The figures are astronomical but in the last ten years this Turkish government has planted enough trees to repopulate a sizable section of the Amazon. So we can now establish that these protests have nothing to do ... Source Main page (current trends)

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