A protest in Istanbul's Gezi Park against the reconstruction of an Ottoman-style barracks and shopping mall over one of Istanbul's few remaining green areas has led to protests erupting all over the country against the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. This has shocked many international observers who had always seen Turkey as a stable, democratic and reliable NATO ally.
With Jonathan Steele to discuss this in the studio are Dr Ayce Cubukcu, a Lecturer in Human Rights at LSE and Hakan Camuz, Chairman of MUSIAD UK. Joining by Skype is Ozan Tekin, an activist and Central Committee member of the Revolutionary Socialist Workers Party of Turkey.
