Last year, at the height of the Gezi Park protests in Turkey, a teenage boy was sent on an errand by his mother but ended up getting severely wounded by a tear-gas canister. That boy, Berkin Elvan, recently died to the outrage of many Turkish citizens, sparking one of the largest protests since last summer.
Turkish Citizens Mourn Slain Boy
Original article by Jenna Krajeski published in the New Yorker on 03/14/2014
