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Incidentally, Erdogan recently unleashed his police on the students of the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara where I once spent a very enjoyable semester teaching. No previous government in Turkey could have gotten away with such a violent action against students not threatening any violence (see here, here and here).
A longer version of this article was originally published at Rubin Reports, March 15, 2013.
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