TURKEY: Street clear-up begins in the Turkish capital to remove shattered glass from smashed shop windows and the remnants of burnt-out vehicles

Record ID: 862962

  • Title: TURKEY: Street clear-up begins in the Turkish capital to remove shattered glass from smashed shop windows and the remnants of burnt-out vehicles
  • Date: 2nd June 2013
  • Summary: ANKARA, TURKEY (JUNE 2, 2013) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF WORKERS CLEANING THE STREETS WITH HOSES AND WATER TRUCKS PEDESTRIANS WALKING ON CALM STREET SHOP OWNERS CLEANING DAMAGED WINDOWS MORE OF SHOP OWNERS CLEANING THE AREA IN FRONT OF SHOPS VARIOUS OF ARMED POLICEMAN WALKING ON ROAD DAMAGED BILLBOARD DAMAGED BANK ENTRANCE OF THE BANK WITH BROKEN WINDOWS DAMAGED ATM SMASHED GLASS DOOR VARIOUS OF WORKERS SWEEPING DEBRIS BOY WITH BANDANA WALKING PAST BURNT-OUT VAN BURNT VAN VARIOUS OF A DAMAGED BANK VARIOUS OF RIOT POLICE ARRIVING
  • Embargoed: 17th June 2013 13:00
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  • Location: Turkey
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  • Country: Turkey
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement,Conflict,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVABHEW5GC0Q057GZOPLB73N182V
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  • Story Text: Shopkeepers and municipal workers began cleaning the streets of Istanbul and Ankara on Sunday (June 2) after the fiercest anti-government demonstrations in years.
    Pockets of die-hard demonstrators lit bonfires and scuffled with police overnight but the streets were much quieter after two days of clashes in which almost a thousand people were arrested and hundreds were injured.
    The unrest was triggered by protests against government plans to build a replica Ottoman-era barracks to house shops or apartments in Taksim, long a venue for political demonstrations.
    But it has widened into a broader show of defiance against Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and his Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP).
    There were more than 90 separate demonstrations around the country on Friday (May 31) and Saturday (June 1), officials said. More than 1,000 people have been injured in Istanbul and several hundred more in Ankara, according to medics.
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