TURKEY: Turkey's streets were calm in the morning after a night of noisy protests and violence in major cities

Record ID: 645018

  • Title: TURKEY: Turkey's streets were calm in the morning after a night of noisy protests and violence in major cities
  • Date: 3rd June 2013
  • Summary: ANKARA, TURKEY (JUNE 3, 2013) (REUTERS) STREET CLEANERS SWEEPING STREET VARIOUS OF STREET CLEANERS SWEEPING THE STREET] VARIOUS OF CLEANING TRUCK SWEEPING ROAD WATER CANNON ON STANDBY RIOT POLICE TRUCK PARKED VARIOUS OF POLICE IN THE STREET
  • Embargoed: 18th June 2013 13:00
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  • Location: Turkey
  • Country: Turkey
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVAEZJE3PQKBSUZRL0A4KLF17LXN
  • Story Text: There was calm in the streets of the Turkish capital Ankara on Monday morning (June 3) after night-long clashes but security was bracing for another day of violence.
    Police detained more than 200 protesters during the overnight clashes according state-run Anatolian News Agency reported on Sunday.
    Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Turkey's four biggest cities on Sunday and clashed with riot police firing tear gas in the third day of the fiercest anti-government protests in years.
    Roads around Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's office in Istanbul were sealed off as police fired teargas to push back protesters in the early hours of Monday.
    In the main street near Erdogan's office, one demonstrator drove a small mechanical digger towards police lines as other protesters followed behind. At a nearby mosque, medical staff including trainee doctors treated those hurt in the clashes.
    Police raided a shopping complex in the centre of the capital Ankara where they believed demonstrators were sheltering, detaining several hundred.
    Turkey's most violent riots in decades were started by the destruction of a small Istanbul park which protesters demonstrated against last week. But after police waded in to clear them out the protests exploded in a show of defiance at what many see as the creeping authoritarianism of Erdogan.
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