Protests in Turkey: Dispatch 3

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Subscribe to VICE News here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE-News On 23rd March, after a week of turbulent anti-government protests, Turkey's Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, organised a massive pro-government rally on a new man-made island in Istanbul ahead of local elections this week. As many as a million of Erdogan's supporters, mostly conservative Turks, gathered on Sunday through appropriated city buses to show support for the Prime Minister, representing a country that is polarised between those wanting a secular western-looking European country and those craving a more Islamic Middle Eastern-looking one. Watch Dispatch One here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG1JndEu_0U&index=2&list=PLw613M86o5o5BN_I05ncm04E85FHbixeT Check out the VICE News beta for more: http://vicenews.com Follow VICE News here: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vicenews Twitter: https://twitter.com/vicenews Tumblr: http://vicenews.tumblr.com/

Published 2014-03-27 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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