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Turkish woman using a mobile phone to read the news on social media joins demonstrators at midnight in Taksim Gezi Park on June 13, 2013 in Istanbul. (AFP PHOTO/OZAN KOSE)
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 29, 2013 | Media
Ankara, Reuters—Turkey said this week it had asked Twitter to set up a representative office inside the country, which could give it a tighter rein over the microblogging site it has accused of helping stir weeks of anti-government protests. While mainstream Turkish...
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A couple walk past by photographs and graffiti painted by protesters in Kugulu Park in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, June 26, 2013. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 27, 2013 | World
Ankara, Reuters—Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in a residential area of the Turkish capital overnight, setting up barricades and lighting small bonfires. Weeks of often violent anti-government protests have mostly died out in Istanbul and the centre of the...
