Encouraging coercive control: militarisation and classical crowd theory in Turkish protest policing

The coercive character of protest policing is a tangible problem in Turkey. Since the resurgence of contentious politics from the late 1980s, major issues in protest policing have been officially recognised, and eventually addressed by public authorities with an agenda of reform. However, the excess...

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Main Author: Atak, Kıvanç (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2017
In: Policing and society
Year: 2017, Volume: 27, Issue: 7, Pages: 693-711
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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