TURKEY: IMF MEETING DRAWS LEFT AND RIGHT TOGETHER IN ISTANBUL

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As some groups plan the final touches of their upcoming protest actions, they are taking extensive precautions to evade detection. The anarchist leader, for example, said that at any gathering, participants leave their mobile phones outside the room so that security services can’t use them to eavesdrop on conversations. In arranging to meet a EurasiaNet correspondent, the anarchist leader insisted that an interview not take place near his home or the group’s office. Instead, he chose an ironic meeting point — outside the Benetton store on Istanbul’s busy shopping thoroughfare of Istiklal Caddesi.

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