Ten years after Turkey's Gezi protests, some say vote a chance for justice

Begum Ozden Firat poses for a picture at Gezi Park, where in the summer of 2013 protests started and expanded into a nationwide anti-government movement that was met with a severe crackdown, after an interview with Reuters in Istanbul, Turkey, May 25, 2023. REUTERS/Umit Bektas

For some Turks who remain scarred by a state crackdown on nationwide demonstrations a decade ago, Sunday's runoff presidential vote is a chance to finally get justice against those who carried out heavy-handed attacks on protesters.

Hakan Yaman, 47, a minibus driver on his way back from work in May 2013, was hit with a tear gas canister and then brutally attacked by police on Istanbul's Asian side.