Turkey Protest Crackdown: Police Fire Tear Gas And Water Cannons At Demonstrators
By ELENA BECATOROS and SUZAN FRASER 06/16/13 08:34 PM ET EDT AP
ISTANBUL — Riot police cordoned off streets, set up roadblocks and fired tear gas and water cannon to prevent anti-government protesters from converging on Istanbul's central Taksim Square on Sunday, unbowed even as Turkey's prime minister addressed hundreds of thousands of supporters a few kilometers away.
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