minister trying to move turkey from what was a largely secularr state, now towards more of a religious state, and there s a lot of evidence here that the latest straw that broke the camel s back in turkey was the change of the liquor laws there in turkey. it brought a lot of the youth and secular youth out to the street, and that is who is there in the square right now. the prime minister has remained very defiant through all this and says these protests are over. i don t want to talk about it. i don t want to do anything, and that s not gone over very well with the united states, the rest of europe, which turkey is trying to alie itself with, which is a member of nato, in the sense that this violence is not conducive to the prime minister, who says he is a democratically elected leader. shepard: he is democratically elected leader. he lean, thank you. he mentioned this alcohol issue. prime minister erdogan has been trying to feed all of the