Turkey’s Revolt Will Fail. Ask the Russians.
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June 7 (Bloomberg) -- Anyone who witnessed how Russia’s“Snow Revolution” of 2011 and 2012 fizzled can confidentlypredict the failure of the Taksim riots in Turkey.
In recent years, mass protests in authoritarian states havesucceeded only where the rioters had little or nothing to lose,and so were prepared to unleash serious violence. That wasn’tthe case in Moscow, and it isn’t the case in Istanbul, where themajority of the protesters are relatively prosperous members ofthe middle class.