Sunday, June 19, 2016

Istanbul: Turkish police pushing demonstrators apart – SPIEGEL ONLINE

The Turkish police has massively taken place in Istanbul with tear gas and water cannons against hundreds anti-government protesters who gathered in Istanbul’s Cihangir on Saturday night. During the protests against the ruling AKP of Recep Tayyip Erdogan they called “fascists” and “murderers”. And: “All together against fascism.” Several people were arrested.

trigger the protests was einAngriff to fans of the British band Radiohead on Friday night. Several men had stormed a music store near Taksim Square, where young people the new album the band had heard. Apparently the men attacked the music fans, because they disturbed by the fact that they drank alcohol during Ramadan. According to the news agency Dogan two people

Video recordings were in the attack injured, the police opened an investigation. Show how several men storm the record store with loud shouts, driving people into the streets and umschmeißen furniture before loading.

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

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