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Thursday, June 06, 2013

BBC News - Defiant Turkish PM Erdogan urges end to protests

Defiant Turkish PM Erdogan urges end to protests

Mr Erdogan addressed the crowds from an open-top bus, as they chanted his name

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for protests across the country to end immediately.

At Istanbul airport he told crowds of supporters who were welcoming him home from a four-day North Africa tour that the protests bordered on illegality.

But as he spoke, thousands of anti-government protesters were also rallying in Istanbul's Taksim Square.

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