Turkish Uprising: Islamist Police Battles Secularists

(The news article direct from the Guardian on 11 June 2013.)





Turkish
riot police using teargas and water cannon battled protesters for control of
Taksim Square in Istanbul on Tuesday night, hours after the prime minister,
Tayyip Erdogan, demanded an immediate end to 10 days of demonstrations.



Istanbul's
governor, Huseyin Avni Mutlu, declared on TV that police operations would
continue