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The struggle for freedom and peaceful coexistence in Turkey is intensifying. The events triggered spontaneously by the struggle for saving the trees in Gezi Park have now entered a new phase, where all social actors are speaking in a higher pitch.
The transition to this new phase is marked by the breaking of yet another taboo in Turkey — the one shielding Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has been glorified to the utmost and gained an untouchable status among his supporters over the past five or six years. This, however, is natural because the social transformation under way is so profound that it leaves no room for breeding taboos and cults.
