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Protests over the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, have officially gone worldwide, even reaching a Champions League soccer match in Turkey.
The photo above comes from Tuesday's Champions League play-off match between Premier League side Arsenal and host Besiktas in Istanbul, nearly 6,000 miles from where the unarmed Brown, who was black, was shot dead by a white police officer. The fans shown are wearing Besiktas jerseys.
Compounding the image's resonance is Turkey's own recent history with violent clashes between police and protesters. In 2013, the world watched as police officers used tear gas on protesters upset about what critics see as the authoritarian rule of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
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(25,586 posts)They commonly have their anarchy-related banners removed by officials, and Erdogan's people dislike them fairly intensely.
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