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Apr 29, 2007

Scotsman.com News - Turkey's Gul defies army and protests - Osman Orsel

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Turkey's Gul defies army and protests - Osman Orsel

Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul refused on Sunday to withdraw from Turkey's presidential vote, defying pressure from the army and calls from hundreds of thousands of demonstrators worried about his Islamist past.

The protesters, waving red and white Turkish flags and anti-government placards at an Istanbul rally, denounced Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and Gul as a threat to Turkey's secular order separating state and religion, and they praised the army.

Labels: Protest, Secularism, Turkey

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Apr 7, 2007

SFGate: USA: The tax bucks stop here / Resisters withhold payment in protest of U.S. sending troops to Iraq

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USA: The tax bucks stop here / Resisters withhold payment in protest of U.S. sending troops to Iraq

With the tax-filing deadline just two weeks away, some Bay Area residents are using it as an opportunity to protest the war by withholding their tax dollars to fund it. Known as war tax resisters, they consider it an act of civil disobedience. Some withhold only a symbolic portion of what they owe -- $10.40, for example, to represent the 1040 tax form -- while others, like Hansen, refuse to pay anything at all. Many will redirect their tax dollars to a charity of their choice.

Labels: Iraq, Protest, USA, War

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