Turkish police storm into crowd, chase protesters on street outside Istanbul municipality

Record ID: 1985160

  • Title: Turkish police storm into crowd, chase protesters on street outside Istanbul municipality
  • Date: 22nd March 2025
  • Summary: ISTANBUL, TURKEY (MARCH 23, 2025) (REUTERS) POLICE RUNNING TOWARD CROWD RALLYING OUTSIDE ISTANBUL MUNICIPALITY BUILDING POLICE TAKING AWAY PROTESTERS FORCEFULLY POLICE ON STREET OUTSIDE MUNICIPALITY POLICE AND PROTESTER POLICE WITH PROTESTER ON GROUND POLICE SPRAYING TEAR GAS AT PROTESTER POLICE OUTSIDE ISTANBUL MUNICIPALITY VARIOUS OF POLICE ON STREET OUTSIDE ISTANBUL MUN
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  • Keywords: CLASHES CRACKDOWN ERDOGAN MAYOR TURKEY
  • Location: ISTANBUL, TURKEY
  • City: ISTANBUL, TURKEY
  • Country: Turkey
  • Topics: Crime/Law/Justice,Europe,Judicial Process/Court Cases/Court Decisions,Middle East
  • Reuters ID: LVA001096822032025RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Turkish police stormed a crowd outside Istanbul municipality on Sunday (March 23), chasing protesters on the street, using pepper spray and forcefully taking away some of them.
    Tens of thousands of people had gathered outside the municipality building on Saturday (March 22) for a fourth night in a row. As a speech by main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Ozgur Ozel ended, police stormed the crowd, scuffling with some of them as they worked to push protesters out of the area.
    Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a potential challenger to longtime President Tayyip Erdogan, was taken to Istanbul's main courthouse to give statement to prosecutors on Saturday for the first time since his detention on Wednesday for alleged corruption and terrorism.
    The prosecutors will then decide whether to release Imamoglu or send him to court with a request for him to be jailed pending trial.
    (Production: Mehmet Emin Caliskan, Omer Berberoglu, Ali Kucukgocmen)
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