Turkey: Istanbul – Taksim Square – the breadth of social support in the urban enclave of Istanbul – is bigger than Greece and closer to Egypt. "Everyone is here – except the AK Party" – says one young woman

Democracy and Class Struggle says this report from Paul Mason of BBC makes some interesting comparisons.

Democracy and Class says it is right to rebel against reactionaries.

“I have have covered Syntagma in Athens, the Occupy protests and reported from Tahrir
Square in Cairo. This is different to all of them. First, it is massive: the
sheer numbers dwarf any single episode of civil unrest