Скачать или смотреть Police use tear gas and water cannon to disperse protesters in capital

(8 Jun 2013)
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1. Water cannon vehicle hosing group of protesters as it approaches
2. Close of two protesters in front of police vehicles
3. Protesters approach police vehicle and hurl objects at it, zoom out to wide
4. Wide of water cannon vehicles bumping into each other as they attempt to retreat
5. Mid of protesters pushing up against vehicle
6. Close of woman shouting (in Turkish): "Everywhere Taksim, everywhere: resist"
7. Wide of protesters by monument
8. Wide of Kizilay Square filled with protesters, firework exploding in night sky
STORYLINE
Turkish police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse some 5-thousand anti-government protesters in central Ankara on Saturday.
The protesters were blocking traffic and attacking water cannon vehicles which, at one point, bumped into each other in trying to reverse simultaneously.
In Istanbul tens of thousands of people thronged Taksim Square, where protests started nine days ago.
Hours earlier, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's governing party dismissed the protests, which have spread across the country, as an opposition attempt to topple the government, and rejected calls for early elections.
The protests, sparked by outrage over a violent police action to oust an environmental protest in Taksim Square on May 31, quickly spread to 78 cities across the country.
Three people have died - two protesters and a policeman - and thousands have been injured so far.
The protests have become a general condemnation of Erdogan, whom many consider to have grown authoritarian in his 10 years in power, and accuse of trying to introduce his religious and conservative mores in a country governed by secular laws.
He convened the leadership of his Justice and Development party to discuss the protests Saturday afternoon.


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