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HARDtalk: Mehmet Simsek

24/06/2013 GMT

BBC World News - HARDtalk, Mehmet Simsek

Zeinab Badawi speaks to Mehmet Simsek about why demonstrations have erupted across Turkey.

Described as having an authoritarian style of political leadership in Turkey, why have protests erupted like never before under the ruling AK party? HARDtalk asks Mehmet Simsek.

Zeinab Badawi is in Ankara to speak to Turkey's finance minister, Mehmet Simsek. Following the response to the anti-government demonstrations, critics at home and abroad are pointing to an increasingly authoritarian style of political leadership in Turkey. Why have protests erupted across the country like never before under the ruling AK party? And did the initial crackdown by the security forces actually strengthen the protesters?

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