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Saturday, June 1, 2013

Violence In Turkey Casts Shadow On Olympic Bid

The city of Istanbul for the fifth time is bidding to host the 2020 summer Olympics. It pitched itself as “an emerged nation” to the Olympic Committee. But at the same time, NPR’s Peter Kenyon tells guest host Wade Goodwyn, images of police firing tear gas canisters and water cannons at anti-development protesters seemed to send a different kind of message this week.

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