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Turkish opera, dance artists join park protests

2013-06-07 1 Dailymotion

ROUGH CUT - NO REPORTER NARRATION<br/> <br />Members of Turkey's State Opera and Ballet on Friday (June 7) held a dance protest in Ankara in solidarity with the demonstrators occupying Gezi Park in the capitol Istanbul.<br/> <br />One protester explained to Reuters that dancing on stage was the only way they could express themselves, while an opera singer said the whole of Turkey wanted their rights back.<br/> <br />Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan flew back to a Turkey rocked by days of anti-government unrest on Friday and declared before a sea of flag-waving supporters at Istanbul airport: "These protests must end immediately."<br/> <br />Erdogan has pressed many democratic reforms, taming a military that had toppled four governments in four decades, starting entry talks with the European Union, reining in police rights abuses and forging peace talks with Kurdish rebels to end a three-decades-old war that has cost 40,000 lives.

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