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You are citing events that happened 50, if not 100 years ago.
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Hence my opening statement that police crackdowns are nothing new there.
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You are completely out of touch with what is happening on the ground in Istanbul if you think it is comparable to the Armenian genocide or the Taksim massacre.
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Not at all, I'm just putting things into a historical perspective.
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My eyes could not be more open about the situation and telling me what's happening from your comfy chair in London is absolutely ridiculous
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Yes it's quite comfy thanks.
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This thread is about what's happening here, and it is unlike anything that has happened here before. That's all there is to it.
We're talking about 640,000 people protesting against past figures that barely reached 30,000. Moreover, the whole city is alive with the sounds of pots and pans banging every night. People from all walks of life are involved.
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You've missed the point, I'm not debating the amounts of people that are protesting or why they are protesting in the first place. I'm referring to the traditional way that the police there deal with such things. For example, if the police there had a history of being easy-going with protestors and were now getting violent with them, then it would be something of a surprise.
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There is absolutely nothing "routine" about it, and I am incredibly offended that you even used that word to describe something that is happening among Turkey's so-called "apolitical" youth.
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Why are you offended, I've not condoned what the police are doing at all. I'm just saying that I'm not shocked at what they doing, given that it is widely known on how they treat protestors, dissidents and other so-called undesirables. Now if this was happening say in Germany then I might be surprised.