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"Alison, he started gassing little children, mothers and everybody at Taksim Square and Gezi Park half an hour ago...This is war, the scenes are horrific!!! Please alert all who you can...please!"
"Alison, he started gassing little children, mothers and everybody at Taksim Square and Gezi Park half an hour ago...This is war, the scenes are horrific!!! Please alert all who you can...please!"
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gas and bulldozers: Istanbul riot police clear Gezi Park protest camp
The police have fired water cannon and tear gas to drive away protesters from both Istanbul’s Taksim Square and Gezi Park, hours after Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan demanded the square to be “evacuated.” Protesters claim multiple injuries.
Several people have been taken away in ambulances after being loaded onto stretchers, RT’s Irina Galushko reports from Istanbul.
The police are now tearing down the tents in Gezi Park camp, she added.
Scores of riot police have sealed off Taksim Square and stormed the adjoining park, pressing the protesters out of the area.
Police advancing towards protesters on one side, water canoning on the other- clearing #taksim
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Backed by armored vehicles, the police chased the people out, while dozens of workers with bulldozers started clearing out the remnants of the protester's camp from the square.
Municipality workers are now destroying tents in Gezi Park, all roads to the area were blocked by police.
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Water cannon were used to keep the people off the square in the surrounding streets. Even ambulance workers, as well as reporters, have been denied access to Gezi Park, RT’s Galushko tweets.
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Dozens of people have been injured amidst the police action, while clashes with sporadic tear gas broke out in the streets, Today’s Zaman reporter Mahir Zeynalov tweets.
Police vs people! Taksim, now: pic.twitter.com/8XjcEUhCFh This is huge!
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Zeynalov, however, notes that only “limited” amount of tear gas has been fired, saying the police are “professional so far in Taksim.”
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Meanwhile, some protesters spoke of a police “massacre,” describing accounts of brutality in their Twitter posts, as several groups of protesters took shelter from tear gas in adjacent hotels.
Divan Hotel, near Taksim is filled w/people who are gassed: 2.40pm EST v @140journos: 21:40pm local time v @erggg pic.twitter.com/zPHSorEg2F
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Meanwhile, a Turkish public sector labor union has announced plans for a general strike on Monday, after Saturday’s events that included another police raid on Gezi Park.
A spokesman for the Public Workers Unions Confederation (KESK) told Reuters: "We had already taken a decision to go on strike if there was an intervention on the park. So tomorrow we will declare a strike for Monday." The organization lists 240,000 members in 11 unions.
Another group, called the Revolutionary Trade Unions (DISK) is also deliberating on whether to hold a strike, according to an official of theirs.
Istanbul’s Taksim Square must be cleared of protesters before tomorrow’s pro-government rally, Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan stressed in his Ankara speech earlier on Saturday.
“We have our Istanbul rally tomorrow. I say it clearly: Taksim Square must be evacuated, otherwise this country’s security forces know how to evacuate it,” Erdogan said in Ankara, as he announced the Sunday rally in support of his party AKP.
Tens of thousands of cheering Erdogan supporters gathered in suburban Ankara for a rally titled ‘Respect for the National Will’.
Supporters of Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan watch a rally organized by the ruling Justice and Development Party in Ankara June 15, 2013.(Reuters / Stringer)
Erdogan once again took a hard stance on the anti-government demonstrators, saying he has reasons to call them “marauders,” and repeating the claims of protesters drinking alcohol in mosques and attacking women in hijabs.
PM Erdogan is making one of the most angry speeches in a way describing the protestors capulcus, traitors, and playing another game etc.
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He also contrasted the violent unrest to the “peaceful” way his supporters act, praising them and the AK party members.
Erdogan then focused on a foreign support conspiracy, claiming the Turkish government has “all the evidence needed” of the “traitor scheme” behind the protests.
“We will make public with documents that the real issue was not Gezi Park. This is a coordinated process from the outside and the inside of the country,” the Turkish Prime Minister said, adding that some “illegal organizations” were behind the various “schemes” from the very start of the protests.
He also praised police actions, saying that the Western countries and Russia had been even tougher in cracking down on protests and used “bullets,” while the Turkish police have been “patient.”
Watch
this video. Enshrine it. This is our world now. It is the most
compelling film I have seen in a year. This is what is coming for all
of us, very rapidly.\
It
is happening in Sao Paolo , Santiago and Sofia that we know of...
That
we know of...
---Mike Ruppert
---Mike Ruppert
#Occupy
Gezi Park
From
RT journalist - Irina Galushko @IrinaGalushkoRT 2h
люди
в штатском с пистолетом, небрежно
заткнутом за пояс, зло впустили в нашу
гост-цу, и сказали больше не выйдем
This
says that journalists are being told bluntly by people with guns
stuffed into their belts, that they are not allowed to leave their
hotels
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