BBC OS Conversations: Protests in Turkey

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  Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.

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  I'm Mark Loewen and in BBC OS conversations we bring people together to share their experiences.

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  This time our conversations are on the protests in Turkey.

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  The country is experiencing the worst unrest for more than a decade.

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  Police have fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters and arrested hundreds of people.

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  I was in Turkey earlier this week talking to those taking part in the demonstrations.

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  In this edition,

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  three journalists share their experiences of being targeted by government security forces.

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  I was also one of those journalists who have been tear gas directly by the police which blinded us for 30 minutes.

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  We couldn't move, we couldn't do anything.

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  We were just blinded.

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  The protests began about 10 days ago after the mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamolu,

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  a political rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan,

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  was arrested and charged with corruption charges.

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  He denies.

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  I used to be the BBC's correspondent in Turkey and lived there for five years after following events at first from London on Sunday,

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  I travelled to Istanbul to witness what was happening close up.

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  After 22 years of President Erdogan's increasingly authoritarian rule,

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  I was struck by how so many I met feel stifled,

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  desperate about the state of their country and simply chanting Enough.

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