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TOPSHOTSDemonstrators help one another as Turkish riot policemen use tear gas to disperse clashes on May 31, 2013 during a protest against the demolition of Taksim Gezi Park, in Taksim Square in Istanbul. (AFP Photo)

Opinion: “Turkish Spring” is a false analogy

by Aylin Kocaman | Jun 5, 2013 | Opinion

There have been no great uprisings in the major cities of my country, Turkey, since the 1970s. It has wrestled with the scourge of terror for 30 years; we have always lived side by side with terror. Suicide bombings, banks being blown up and explosions on buses all...

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Tunisian supporters of ruling Islamist party Ennahda carry a large version of their national flag as they march through Tunis’s Habib Bourguiba Avenue during a demonstration to protest their movement’s legitimacy and denounce plans for a government of technocrats aimed at resolving a major crisis on February 16, 2013. (AFP PHOTO/GIANLUIGI GUERCIA)

Opinion: Ennahda will survive the next elections

by Adnan Mancer | May 17, 2013 | Debate

Some observers of the Tunisian political scene think that the country will experience a dramatic change as a result of the elections scheduled for the end of the year. However, many of those familiar with the details of the political scene in Tunisia since the time of...