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A May Day protester kicks a tear gas canister during clashes in Ankara
01 May 2008
Source: Reuters
 
A May Day protester kicks a tear gas canister during clashes in Ankara May 1, 2008. May 1, a traditional workers' day holiday across most of Europe, is a normal working day in Turkey, where the government resisted intense union pressure this year to make it a day off. REUTERS/Stringer (TURKEY)
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Turkish women attend a protest against the Constitutional Court's verdict regarding headscarves in Ankara June 12, 2008. Turkey's top court annulled a reform last week that would allow students to wear ...


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