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Istanbul: Turkish police attacks with tear gas Erdogan’s critics on – THE WORLD

The Turkish police has acted massively in Istanbul with tear gas and water cannons against hundreds anti-government demonstrators. During the hour-long protests against the ruling AKP party, the protesters shouted: “All together against fascism!” The conservative Islamic Recep Tayyip Erdogan called it a “thief” and “murderer”, as an AFP photographer reported. After less than an hour the protest, however, was broken up by police with tear gas and water cannon.

Several people were arrested. The trigger was an attack on fans of the rock band Radiohead on the eve. Here some 20 Islamists stormed a music store near Taksim Square, where young people the new album the band had heard. During the event, the Muslim holy month of Ramadan had alcohol been drunk, a statement said the attack.

Radiohead condemned the assault on the record store. It was an act “violent intolerance”, said the British rock band in the magazine “Rolling Stone” with.

The CNN Türk published a video that the to document attacks. The images show how several men storm a Flagstones under loud shouts, driving people into the streets and umschmeißen furniture before loading. The musicians of Radiohead said its fans after the incident their sympathy: “We send our fans in Istanbul our love and support,” it said in the statement. The band hope that such attacks would soon be a thing of the distant past.

Meanwhile, the authorities banned having regard to the security situation a planned until the end of the month Gay Pride -Parade. Islamists and right-wing extremists had threatened to prevent the parade. . Last year, a similar demonstration was broken up by police

New protests provoked Erdogan meanwhile with an old project: a good three years after the mass protests around renovation project in Istanbul’s Taksim Gezi Park will revive the controversial project of the Turkish President. On the site will create a historical monument, he announced. Erdogan was referring to plans, in Taksim Gezi Park to build a the Ottoman Empire, inspired military barracks.

In May 2013 had at the planned deforestation of Gezi -Parks favor of the project ignited sharp protests. She quickly stretched out on the nearby Taksim Square and were directed against the policy of the then Prime Minister Erdogan and his as increasingly autocratic criticized style of government.

the whole country then went hundreds of thousands to the streets to call for greater democratic freedoms. Clashes with police were killed, thousands were injured. Erdogan described the protests at that time as part of an international conspiracy that would bring his government to fall. In August 2014 he was elected president.

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