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Dozens of demonstrators are arrested in Istanbul where police fire tear gas to break up crowds.
Last Modified: 14 Sep 2013 10:02
Police has arrested 25 demonstrators during the protests in Istanbul’s Kadikoy district, an opposition stronghold [AFP]
Police have arrested 25 demonstrators during protests in Istanbul’s Kadikoy district, an opposition stronghold, as protesters took to the streets for a fifth night running.
On Friday night police fired tear gas to disperse protesters in the Turkish capital Ankara, Istanbul and Hatay.
Thousands gathered in Ankara to protest against the construction of a cultural centre that will have be both a Sunni mosque and an Alevi prayer house. The minority Alevi are Shia Muslims.
Anti-government sentiment was inflamed by the death of a 22-year-old protester , Ahmet Atakan, in Hatay on Monday.
Atakan's death was the sixth recorded in protests since demonstrations against the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan began in June.
Atakan family said he had been killed by police, a claim denied by Interior Minister Muammer Guler, who accused protesters of using the young man's death to "spread chaos".
Local officials said Atakan died after falling from a rooftop where he had been throwing stones at police.
Turkish police used water cannon and tear gas to break up fresh anti-government protests in Istanbul, amid anger over the death of a demonstrator earlier in the week.
Officers faced up to 3,000 angry protesters on a second consecutive day of demonstrations in the Kadikoy district, an opposition stronghold.
The police fired tear gas, water cannon and plastic pellets to break up the crowd as it approached the local offices of the ruling AKP party.
The incidents lasted several hours and ran into the early hours of Friday. Many protesters were arrested, the AFP news agency said.
There were media reports of similar incidents pitting police against demonstrators in the capital Ankara and in the southern city of Antakya, where 22-year-old Ahmet Atakan died during a protest on Monday.
Atakan's death was the sixth recorded in protests since demonstrations against the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, seen as increasingly authoritarian, began in June.
Atakan family said he had been killed by a missile fired by police - said to be a gas canister - a version of events denied by Interior Minister Muammer Guler.
He has accused protesters of using the young man's death to "spread chaos". Local officials said Atakan died after falling from a rooftop where he had been throwing stones at police.
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