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Adnan Oktar
(Harun Yahya)

conflict with the authorities. That being said, it is important to be wary

of some basic points such as not violating the rights of others and not
disrupting public security.
However if these stipulations are not observed and if these
protests turn into occupations of certain districts and this occupation
surpasses ordinary protests it becomes very easy for the uncontrollable
elements to penetrate these demonstrations.

Provocateurs should be strictly avoided

As we've seen in many other examples throughout the course of
history, due to their acts of violence, some militants allied to weak
political powers can become quite influential in the future of a country
in a manner that is disproportionate to their actual political power.

The methods they employ are always the same: Those who have
very different goals than the demonstrators easily blend into the
crowds by making use of the commotion. These people either instigate
the crowds against security forces in a planned manner or instigate
armed conflicts and use innocent civilians to shield themselves. Istan-
bul's Gezi Park protests, which were started by innocent young people
as a way to express environmental concerns, were soon transformed
into a theater of war by terror groups. Or like we've observed in
Adawiya Square in Egypt, the crowds can easily be whipped up in a

very short time by provocateurs skilled in leading mass movements.
Such tensions drag the state into a predicament; the Yemeni state
is forced to choose between democracy and a show of force in order to
assert its authority. If they do not allow protests, the government is
intensely criticized on the grounds that there is no democracy in the
country and that the rights of Yemen's Houthis are being violated.
In the meantime events grow and spread and just like what hap-

pened in Yemen, the problem ceases having anything to do with claim-
ing a right and becomes a general security problem.
The government, wanting to put an end to the crisis in the coun-
try, resorts to military methods. That is because these protests become

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