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Anti-government protesters, with the New mosque in the background, gather over the Galata bridge in Istanbul. (REUTERS Photo)


Awakening Pera

Awakening Pera

When a small group of environmentalists and liberals started sleeping in a small, overlooked park next to Istanbul’s central Taksim Square, slated for replacement by a mall, I thought little aside from being infused by a private kind of sadness. It meant the adding of...