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Turkish Doctors Threatened for Aiding Protesters

Jun 15, 2013
Turkish physicians and other health professionals who started administering treatment to protesters at Istanbul's Gezi Park became the target of repression this week as the Health Ministry forbade them to do their jobs.
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Heckling the First Lady

Jun 11, 2013
Michelle Obama's confrontation with a lesbian activist signals the beginning of a push to turn up the heat on the president by the LGBT community; Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's calling protesters "looters" exemplifies why his country is seeing so much unrest; meanwhile, as Occupy Wall Street participants exerted their First Amendment rights, their cellphones were being logged. These discoveries and more after the jump.