Police Clear Taksim Square: Turkey’s Protests and the Neoliberal Market (Cole interview)

Juan Cole 06/11/2013

Update

On Tuesday morning, police in Istanbul moved on protesters at Taksim Square, using teargas and water cannon to clear them out. Police began dismantling the barricades erected by protesters.

301Plus News reports

Prime Minister Erdogan’s aggressive and confrontational style with the protesters has prompted the Chinese news agency Xinhua to do a story on the dangers Turkey faces economically if the protests continue. The stock market is already down 15% and

At Sam Seder’s Majority Report, Michael Brooks sat in as host on Monday and interviewed me on the NSA scandal and on the protests in Turkey. Below is the segment on Turkey:

About the Author

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page