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Protests that erupted across Turkey following the arrest of Istanbul’s opposition mayor took a new direction Wednesday as government opponents called for a one-day shopping boycott.
The Financial Times |
Turkish student activists called for a “buy nothing” consumer boycott on Wednesday as part of an expanding civil society campaign seeking to add economic pressure to recent mass demonstrations against...
Forbes |
The recent arrest of his prominent challenger - Ekrem Imamoglu, the popular mayor of Istanbul - has stirred deep unrest, demonstrations, mass arrests, and the like with estimates as high as two milli...

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Turkey’s protests over the arrest of an Erdogan rival take a new angle: Boycott shopping
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Swedish journalist who came to Turkey to cover Imamoglu protests arrested over old insults allegedly directed at Erdogan
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‘From Cyprus to Syria, Erdogan is ‘dangerous’
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