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| Turkish police fire teargas, water cannon to disperse Istanbul protests |
| 2013-07-07 |
| [REUTERS] Turkish police fired teargas and water cannon to disperse hundreds of protesters in an Istanbul square on Saturday as they gathered to enter a park that was the center of protests against Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan last month. Taksim Solidarity, combining an array of political groups, had called a march to enter the sealed off Gezi park, but the governor of Istanbul warned that any such gathering would be confronted by the police. "We are going to our park to open its doors to its real owners ... We are here and we will stay here ... We have not given up our demands," the umbrella group said in a statement. Riot police chased protesters into side streets in what appeared to be the biggest police intervention since the mid-June protests and riots that saw Taksim Square sealed off by makeshift barricades. "They can use Gezi Park as they wish, without gathering or demonstrating there ... If there is an illegal demonstration or march, of course we will intervene by using water cannons," Interior Minister Muammer Guler said. Protesters in Istanbul chanted "Together against fascism" and "Everywhere is resistance". I see they've picked up on the Islamism=Fascism thing. A hundred years from now they might pick up on the Islam=Fascism thing. |
| Posted by:Fred |