Erdogan supporters rally after Turkey protest violence. Zeynepozar : this is tesvikiye mosque under... Tear gas and bulldozers: Istanbul riot police clear Gezi Park protest camp. Ankara police block activist funeral cortege, raid memorial protest with tear gas. Gezi Park protesters call for mass demonstration on Sunday. Protesters were removing the barricades standing at the entrance of the park from the Taksim Square on June 14.
AA photo The protesters have announced today that they would stay at Istanbul’s “symbolic” Gezi Park, calling for a big demonstration tomorrow to commemorate the four victims since the beginning of the protests. “For those who ask what we will do, we say clearly that we won’t leave Gezi Park that has become a symbol. Ethem'in kafasından kurşun çıktı. 'Like war': Riot police move to quash Turkey protests. Tolga Bozoglu / EPA Protesters clash with riot police at Taksim square in Istanbul, Turkey, late June 15, 2013.
Turkish riot police are firing water cannons and tear gas at protesters in Istanbul's Gezi Park, witnesses said, hours after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to remove them from the disputed public space by force. By Tracy Jarrett, NBC News Violence surged around Istanbul’s Taksim Square overnight Sunday as police vehicles cleared the area in preparation for a response rally set to be held Sunday by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and the ruling AK Party. "We have our Istanbul rally tomorrow. The continued unrest comes after the prime minister told protesters at Thursday's talks he would put on hold plans to build a replica Ottoman-era barracks in Gezi Park until a court rules on the issue. Within an hour of Erdogan’s warning Saturday to rioters that security forces “know how to clear” the area, water cannons were fired to evict protesters from the park. Related stories: Turkish protesters vow to remain in Gezi Park despite Erdoğan concession.
Protesters occupying Gezi Park in Istanbul have vowed to continue their two-week-old sit-in despite government appeals to leave.
After all-night talks among protesters at the camp, representatives announced that their struggle against the government of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan would go on. "We will continue our resistance in the face of any injustice and unfairness taking place in our country," said Taksim Solidarity, the umbrella group representing the protesters. "This is only the beginning. " In the capital, Ankara, police were involved in violent clashes after protesters reportedly attempted to set up barricades close to the Turkish parliament. The president, Abdullah Gul, who has often struck a more conciliatory tone during the crisis, urged the protesters to return home, saying on Twitter that the "channels for discussion and dialogue" were now open, echoing similar remarks by Erdoğan. On Friday night there was little evidence that those in the park planned to leave soon.
Turkey's PM misses the point as protesters unite to defend rights. Sitting by her tent in Istanbul's Gezi Park, child psychiatrist Tugba Camcioglu, 36, ponders what brought her here.
She is not, she admits, very political. The handmade poster on her tent is about child abuse, not the fate of the park or even the vexed subject of Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. "I came because the park should be kept for children. I came to stand up for the weak," she says. I meet Camcioglu the day after last week's assault on nearby Taksim Square with teargas, water cannon and rubber bullets that cleared it of protesters. "Turkey is like a traumatised adolescent," she explains. Camcioglu is one of those whom Erdogan has branded as capulcu – literally, "riffraff" – a word that has been appropriated by the protesters as a badge of pride.
Recent days have seen a series of dizzying flip-flops. Turkey protesters refuse to leave Gezi Park - Europe. Turkish protesters have refused to vacate Istanbul's Gezi Park despite a concession by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to halt the site's redevelopment ahead of a court ruling.
Saturday's decision could see police again intervene in what is already a major showdown between the protesters and the government. "We will continue our resistance in the face of any injustice and unfairness taking place in our country," the Taksim Solidarity group, seen as most representative of the protesters, said in a statement on Saturday. The decision came a day after Erdogan met with the group, along with artists and actors. Erdogan had accepted to delay the redevelopment of Gezi Park pending a court decision on its legality. He also said a referendum would be held to determine the park's fate even if the court ruled in favour of redevelopment. Ankara arrests Erdogan's supporters were planning weekend pro-government demonstrations in Ankara and Istanbul, according to the A P news agency.
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