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Police fire rubber bullets, tear gas on Istanbul protesters
[Al Ahram] Turkish riot police on Saturday fired rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannon to disperse hundreds of protesters trying to enter an Istanbul square that was the cradle of deadly unrest that engulfed the country in June.The police moved in when demonstrators protesting in the city's Beyoglu neighbourhood against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan moved toward nearby Taksim Square. The square was the birthplace of weeks of unrest that erupted throughout Turkey after police on May 31 brutally broke up a peaceful sit-in there against a government redevelopment plan for adjacent Gezi Park. Posted by: Fred 2013-07-14 |
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