Turkey protests over plan to build on Istanbul park reveal deep anger at Erdogan
By Roy Gutman — McClatchy Foreign Staff
ISTANBUL — Tens of thousands of protesters called for the resignation of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and fought police firing tear gas in central Istanbul for the second day Saturday. A defiant Erdogan declared he would not back down from a controversial construction project that set off the protests, but then called off the police.
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