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Blackouts, hostages, distrust: Turkey's demons of own making


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Ivan Watson and Gul Tuysuz, CNN

April 1, 2015

 

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This week, Turkey was gripped by a massive power outage and a deadly hostage crisisReactions reveal contemporary

Turkey is tense and confused after years of political crises

Censorship has pushed critics to fringes in country cited as democratic model for Mideast

 

Istanbul, Turkey (CNN)The questions Turks asked on Tuesday were tinged with fear.

 

"What's going on? What happened? Why can't I get into the subway?" asked an elderly woman in a white headscarf with several shopping bags as she stood outside the barricaded entrance to one of Istanbul's busiest subway stations.

 

She was one of millions of Turks left confused and concerned by the worst power outage to grip the country in more than a decade.

 

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