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Thank you. message was paid for by British Airways. Last week, Turkey's president, Recib Tayyip Erdogan, arrested his biggest political opponent,

the mayor of Istanbul, and it was seen as one of the worst blows to what's left of Turkish democracy in decades.

But the response, these past few days on the streets of Istanbul, has become one of Turkey's most hopeful moments for years.

When I went down to the protests and started talking to people, you had just huge crowds of

people pouring out of the metro station, pouring into the street, walking towards City Hall,

taking selfies as fireworks go off overhead.

Ruth Michelson, a foreign correspondent covering this for The Guardian from Istanbul,

has been among the massive crowds out on the streets of the city night after night.

These are the biggest protests that Turkey has seen since the 2013 Gezi Park protests.

We are seeing people out on the streets, not just in Istanbul,

but in places, far beyond places that are much more traditionally associated

with support for the president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

That's part of what makes this so significant,

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