Gâvur Izmir

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"Come to us, Tayyip**, water is fresh here". That's how people in Izmir greet any newcomer to the improvised tent camp at the Mediterranean seafront in the Alsancak park in Izmir, Turkey's 3rd biggest city. And though the police eventually managed to disperse their counterparts in Istanbul and Ankara by using force, the protest camp in Izmir still remains intact. And there are several reasons for that.

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