Full-page ad in NY Times backs Turkey protesters

June 08, 2013 04:08

Supporters of the protests in Turkey ran a full-page ad in today's New York Times to explain why the demonstrators are so angry with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his government.

The supporters raised more than USD 100,000 in five days over the Internet to pay for the ad. The title is "What's Happening in Turkey?", with smoke from a tear gas canister drifting across the words. "People of Turkey have spoken: we will not be oppressed," it reads.

It goes on to say that in the 10 years Erdogan has been in power, the people of Turkey have seen their civil rights and freedoms erode steadily, with many journalists, artists and elected officials arrested.

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