1.Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been the prime minister of Turkey since 2003.
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3.Erdoğan is a member of the Justice and Development Party (AKP). It's a center-right conservative party that favors a conservative democracy.
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5.According to a Pew Research poll, 62% of Turks like Prime Minister Erdoğan.
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7.Erdoğan is not, however, popular in Istanbul, where he served as mayor from 1994-1998.
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9.According to the same Pew Research poll, 54% of population of Istanbul feel negatively towards him.
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11.(In this one they're comparing him to Justin Bieber.)
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13.The protests currently going on are against a perceived sense of growing authoritarianism in Erdoğan's administration.
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15.The people involved with #OccupyGezi assembled to protest the demolition of a beloved park in Istanbul, but the demonstrations quickly turned into something larger.
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17.The most common thread tying the protesters together is an anger over a growing Islamism in the government.