How dare the Turkish government detstroy a park in which an American academic had played as a child?

"much beloved park where I played as a child".   But seriously one would have expected a deeper analysis from an authority on the Frankfurt School, and someone who had studied with Horkheimer: " In the weeks preceding the Taksim demonstrations, tempers were already flaring around new curbs on serving alcohol in public places passed hastily by the A.K.P.-dominated Parliament but not yet signed into law. The real problem, in a country where alcoholism is minimal, is Mr. Erdogan’s “culture war” against the country’s secular classes and the illiberal form of democracy that he is advancing. I’ve heard many Turks, both devout and non-observant, say: “If consuming alcohol is a sin, let me reckon with my own maker. The government cannot force us not to sin.”"