Friday photo: The Olympic flame’s 85,000 miles of bad road
STR/AFP/Getty Images Chinese security guards and Turkish police arrest an Uighur Muslim protestor during the Olympic torch ceremony, on April 03, 2008. A group of some 200 Uighur Muslims demonstrated against China before the Olympic torch ceremony near one of Turkey’s most famous touristic destinations. Turkish police kept demonstrators away from the site where athletes ...
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Chinese security guards and Turkish police arrest an Uighur Muslim protestor during the Olympic torch ceremony, on April 03, 2008. A group of some 200 Uighur Muslims demonstrated against China before the Olympic torch ceremony near one of Turkey’s most famous touristic destinations. Turkish police kept demonstrators away from the site where athletes planned to begin running with the torch through the city.
Joshua Keating was an associate editor at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @joshuakeating
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