in pictures: Protests in Turkey
June 3, 2013 – Istanbul
AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis- A woman passes next to graffiti in Istanbul’s Taksim Square depicting a skull wearing a police helmet. The banner below calls for Turkish independence. After several days of protest, the demonstrations that grew out of anger over excessive police force have spiraled into Turkey’s biggest anti-government demonstrations in years, challenging Prime Minister’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s power.
June 3, 2013 – Istanbul
AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis- High school students chant slogans during a protest at Gezi park, Taksim square.
June 3, 2013 – Istanbul
REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov- A protester sleeps on a chair at Taksim Square. Turkish protesters clashed with riot police into the early hours of Monday with some setting fire to offices of the ruling AK Party as the fiercest anti-government demonstrations in years entered their fourth day. Turkey’s streets were calm in the morning after a night of noisy protests and violence in major cities.
June 2, 2013 – Ankara
Umit Bektas/Reuters- An anti-government protester holds Turkey’s national flag with a portrait of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of modern Turkey, on it during a demonstration in Ankara late on June 2. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan blamed the main secular opposition party for inciting the crowds, whom he called ‘a few looters’, and said the protests were aimed at depriving his ruling AK Party of votes as elections begin next year.
June 2, 2013 – Istanbul
Murad Sezer/Reuters- Protesters shout slogans from the windows of a building during a protest against Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan in central Istanbul. Police used tear gas on protesters in Ankara but the clashes were relatively minor compared with major violence in Turkey’s biggest cities on the previous two days. The banner at centre reads ‘Long live our Taksim resistance’.
June 2, 2013 – Ankara
Umit Bektas/Reuters- A demonstrator waves Turkey’s national flag as he sits on a monument during a protest against Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and his ruling AK Party in central Ankara. Erdogan accused Turkey’s main secular opposition party on Sunday of stirring a wave of anti-government protests, as tens of thousands regrouped in Istanbul and Ankara after a lull and trouble flared again in the capital.
June 1, 2013 – Istanbul
AP Photo- Turkish protesters clash with riot police near the former Ottoman palace, Dolmabahce, where Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan maintains an office in Istanbul.
June 1, 2013 – Istanbul
AP Photo- Turkish protesters confront riot police near the former Ottoman palace, Dolmabahce, where Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan maintains an office in Istanbul, Turkey. A second day of national protests over a violent police raid of an anti-development sit-in in Taksim square has revealed the depths of anger against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who many Turks view as increasingly authoritarian and dismissive of opposing views.
June 1, 2013 – Ankara
Umit Bektas/Reuters- Anti-government protesters shout slogans as they clash with riot police in central Ankara early on June 1. Thousands of demonstrators massed on streets surrounding Istanbul’s central Taksim Square, long a venue for political unrest, while protests erupted in the capital Ankara and the Aegean coastal city of Izmir.
June 1, 2013 – Istanbul
Murad Sezer/Reuters- Riot police use tear gas to disperse the crowd
June 1, 2013 – Istanbul
AP Photo- Turkish protesters clash with riot police at the city’s main Taksim Square.
June 1, 2013 – Ankara
Umit Bektas/Reuters- A man is hit by a jet of water as riot police use a water cannon to disperse demonstrators.
June 1, 2013 – Istanbul
AP Photo- An officer is seen as the police clash with protesters at the city’s main Taksim Square in Istanbul.
June 1, 2013 – Istanbul
Murad Sezer/Reuters- Riot police use tear gas to disperse the crowd during an anti-government protest in Istanbul. The Turkish police fired teargas and water cannon for a second day on Saturday to prevent hundreds of protesters reaching Istanbul’s central Taksim Square.
June 1, 2013 – Istanbul
Murad Sezer/Reuters- Riot police use tear gas to disperse the crowd during an anti-government protest at Taksim Square. Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan called for an immediate end on Saturday to the fiercest anti-government demonstrations for years, as thousands of protesters clashed with riot police in Istanbul and Ankara for a second day.
June 1, 2013 – Istanbul
Murad Sezer/Reuters- Supporters of Turkey’s Communist Party (TKP) shout slogans.
May 31, 2013 – Istanbul
Murad Sezer/Reuters- Riot police use tear gas to disperse the crowd.
May 31, 2013 – Istanbul
Ayman Oghanna/Corbis- A little girl covers her face as she is led away from danger by her father near Istanbul’s Taksim square. Police officers attacked a group of peaceful demonstrators on Friday in Istanbul’s Taksim Square with water cannons and tear gas.
May 31, 2013 – Istanbul
Osman Orsal/Reuters- Turkish riot police use water cannon to disperse demonstrators. Several protesters were injured when a wall they climbed collapsed during a police chase, and Ahmet Sik, a prominent journalist was hospitalized after being hit in the head by a tear gas canister.
May 31, 2013 – Istanbul
AP Photo- A man helps a boy to get out of the area as riot police clash with demonstrators after they used tear gas and pressurized water in a dawn raid on Friday to rout a peaceful demonstration by hundreds of people staging a sit-in to prevent the uprooting of trees at an Istanbul park.
May 31, 2013 – Istanbul
Osman Orsal/Reuters- Riot police use tear gas to disperse the crowd.
May 31, 2013 – Istanbul
Ayman Oghanna/Corbis- A girl covers her mouth after being teargassed by police in Istanbul’s Taksim square.
May 31, 2013 – Istanbul
Osman Orsal/Reuters- Riot police use tear gas to disperse the crowd.
May 28, 2013 – Istanbul
AP Photo- Riot police use pepper gas to disperse demonstrators protesting against the cutting down of trees in the centre of Taksim Square in Istanbul.
May 28, 2013 – Istanbul
Osman Orsal/Reuters- Police officers use pepper spray on a group of peaceful demonstrators in Istanbul’s Taksim Square who were protesting against the destruction of trees in a park to make way for a pedestrian project.
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