By Elif Shafak
Bloomberg News - Jun 21, 2013
I was in London working on a novel a
few weeks ago when I heard from a friend in Istanbul that he was
on his way to Gezi Park. “To guard the sycamores,” he said,
laughter in his voice. “We will camp by the trees and make sure
the bulldozers don’t hurt them.”
Wishing him luck, suspecting nothing, I returned to my
story of a young Indian elephant driver, an outsider, finding
his way through 16th-century Istanbul. All day long, I remained
in the past, unaware of what was happening in my home city as
police raided Gezi Park, dousing peaceful protesters with water
cannons and tear gas. Tents were set on fire. Unarmed young
people were subjected to violence.
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