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| The Grand Turk |
| New anti-government protests hit Turkey |
| 2013-09-13 |
| [Al Ahram] Police used water canon and tear gas overnight Wednesday in a bid to break up fresh anti-government protests across Turkey, media said. Thousands of people angry over the death of a 22-year-old demonstrator in southern Turkey on Monday clashed with police in Istanbul, the capital Ankara, the western city of Izmir as well as in the southern cities of Mersin and Atakya. In Istanbul, the Turkish commercial hub where an unprecedented wave of anti-government protests erupted in June, around a thousand protesters clashed with police who fired tear gas and water canon, the CNN-Turk television channel reported. Several protesters were hurt and around 20 were tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... during the demonstrations in Kadikoy Square, it said. In Izmir, a large city in the west, more than 2,500 people marched through the city centre in defiance of police who fired tear gas, the newspaper Hurriyet said. It said the crowd shouted "AKP murderer," denouncing the governing Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP). Similar festivities occurred in Ankara, Mersin and in Antakya, the city in southern Turkey near the Syrian border where Ahmet Atakan, 22, died Monday night. |
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