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How did revolution become Istanbul’s new normal?

A review of Alev Scott’s Turkish Awakening: A Personal Discovery of Modern Turkey. A gripping perspective on the battle for modern Turkey

A demonstration in Istanbul against the ban on Twitter, 22 March 2014 [Getty Images/Shutterstock/iStock/Alamy]
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  • Turkish Awakening: A Personal Discovery of Modern Turkey

    Alev Scott

    Gaber, pp. 336

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