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Turkey's year of violence and elections

If a diverse - but united - Turkey is to survive in its current borders, a constitution based on consensus is desperately needed.

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A rally in istanbul to mark 92nd Turkish Republic Day Anniversary. Demotix/Avni Kantan. All rights reserved.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born;  in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

(Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks).