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Reading while Protesting: The Taksim Square Book Club

If you think the people of Turkey have given up - think again. As they emerge from weeks of violent clashes with the police they have adopted a new form of resistance. They're calling it The Taksim Square Book Club and it is a made up of the 'standing man' protesters, named after performance artist Erdem Gunduz who stood, silently, with his hands in his pockets, in Taksim Square for eight hours and the reading and educational activities that were active during the Occupy Gezi library days. A man reads the Turkish book Resurrection Gallipoli 1915, written by Turgut Ozakman on the Battle...

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