Ali Baba & 40, a libretto Tarik Gunersel wrote in 1988, has been resurrected to fan the flames of political controversy in Turkey.
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From ordering a TV station to stop broadcasting a speech by an opposition leader to the imprisonment of Gezi Park protesters, and from the bombing of Kurdish peasants to the targeting of journalists, each day “it seems that PM Erdoğan’s government creates new material for Ripley’s Believe it or Not.”
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In what is a reversal of a decades old policy, the Turkish Ministry of Culture refuses to give financial aid to private theaters that supported the Gezi Park protests and that stage plays that violate the public’s general morality. Turkey columnist and author Tarik Günersel explains the situation.
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Tarık Günersel writes about how despite the courts ruling for Gezi Park to open, protestors are still being harassed and blocked from the park.
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Tarık Günersel continues his coverage of the Turkish protests with more reports of misinformation, media censorship, and increasing police brutality.
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