Turkey's May Day protests
Another summer of unrest for Turkey?
May 3rd 2014, 10:17 by A.Z. | ISTANBUL
Is it going to be another summer of unrest? The question became more urgent on May 1st when Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, succeeded in asserting his iron grip and prevented May Day celebrations from taking place in Istanbul’s Taksim Square.
Scenes similar to last summer’s mass protests, sparked by Mr Erdogan’s plans to build a shopping mall in the Gezi Park, were repeated on Thursday as riot police armed with plastic bullets, water cannons and pepper spray clashed with protestors battling to defy the ban. Dozens of people, including nine journalists, were wounded and around 160 were detained.
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