Ayşe Barım, one of Turkey’s most prominent talent managers, has been arrested in connection with 2013’s Gezi Park protests. The indictment also accuses Barım of holding a monopoly over the talent management sector.

Istanbul’s Chief Prosecutor launched the investigation into Barım last week. The prominent manager runs a talent management company called ID Danışmanlık Limited.

Gezi Park protests were a wave of demonstrations against the increasingly authoritarian rule of then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan that lasted throughout the summer of 2013 and were centered in Istanbul’s central Gezi Park and the adjacent Taksim Square. The accusations leveled against Barım allege that the talent manager ‘directed her clients to engage in the Gezi Park events’.

Following the release of the accusations, Barım was........

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