Five things you should know about Turkey and the Istanbul protests

Video: Turkey protests 'a warning' to Erdogan

telegraph.co.uk - June 3rd, 2013 - Ruth Sherlock

Since the 1920s Turkey has been vigorously secular in its public sphere. Now protestors accuse Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of blurring the line between religion and state by trying to impose the Islamist values of his Justice and Development party (AKP) on society as a whole.

Last month the government introduced a new law cracking down on alcohol, banning the sale of drink between 10pm and 6am and forcing restaurants near schools or mosques to be dry.

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