June 18, 2016
A protester confronts several policemen. Photo: AFP
A spontaneous demonstration against intolerance is dissolved in Istanbul by the police. Tear gas and water cannons are used, several people were arrested. Occasion of the demonstration was an attack on fans of the rock band Radiohead
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 they called “fascists” and “murderers”. Several people were arrested.
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the trigger was an attack on fans of the rock band Radiohead on the eve. Several men had stormed a music store near Taksim Square, where young people the new album the band had heard. During the event, the Muslims holy month of Ramadan alcohol had been drunk, a statement said the attack.
Video: Attack
The CNN Türk published a video that is intended to document the attack. The images show how several men storm a Flagstones under loud shouts, driving people into the streets and umschmeißen furniture before loading.
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 compassion: “We are sending 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.
The police used tear gas. Photo: dpa
Meanwhile prohibited the authorities 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
. Erdogan wants Gezi-development resurrect
For additional oil in the fire of Turkish President makes: Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Saturday on television that he wants to realize the construction project in Taksim Gezi Park in Istanbul.
beginning in June 2013 had nationwide protests against the brutal eviction of a protest camp in Taksim Gezi Park ignited in the center of the metropolis. Several hundred protesters had tried to prevent there that trees felled and green areas are eliminated. You should give way to the reconstruction of an Ottoman barracks with apartments and shops. A court stopped the project at the time – being. (Dpa / afp / ZYS)
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