What I Saw In Ankara | Selim Koru | War On The Rocks | 17th July 2016

“These people were not from my neighborhood up the hill, but from Ankara’s poorer districts. An overwhelming majority were male, with lean faces and sunburnt skin. They spoke in Anatolian accents, and a few wore traditional Islamic garb the way Arabs do. Many used hand signs with their slogans — the takbir, an extended index finger, which suggests political Islamism, or the sign of the gray wolf, which belongs to the nationalist party. It was these people who had faced down the junta’s tanks”