ANKARA: When police on Tuesday closed the campus gates of Istanbul’s Bogazici University to keep protesting students away, it became the latest action to symbolize the Turkish government’s handling of opposition groups, a former envoy has said.
In a tweet, Namik Tan, who was Turkey’s ambassador to the US between 2010
"Maybe you can handcuff gates, wrists, but never ideas and thoughts."
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