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[Tim Drayton]

20.06 In response to a police attack on protestors Taksim Square, the crowd has moved off in the direction of Harbiye.

There are said to have been at least 11 arrests already in Taksim.

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[Tim Drayton]

20.11 Clashes continue in front of Taksim First Aid Hospital.

20.08 Republican People’s Party Youth Wing Central Committee member Recep Karakoç has been arrested.

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[Tim Drayton]

It seems that the police launched their attack in Ankara after the crowd decided to leave the park in which it had assembled and march on Kızılay Square. Serious clashes are currently taking place.

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[Tim Drayton]

20.57 A barricade has been set up in Istiklal Street, Taksim, Istanbul to resist the police attack.

20.55 in Istiklal Street:


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[Tim Drayton]

Large numbers of arrests have now been made in Istanbul. Many of the arrests are reported to have been made by persons in plain clothes, and there is a suspicion that they may not all be policemen.

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[Tim Drayton]

21.33 The arrested lawyers Rozerin Seda Kip and Harika Karataş have been released.

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[Tim Drayton]

The barricade being erected in Istiklal Street.

[Tim Drayton]

21.43 Persons wielding cleavers attack protestors in front of Beyoğlu Family Health Centre, Taksim, Istanbul.

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[Tim Drayton]

21:45 Istanbul Bar Association Board of Directors' member Hasan Kılıç' says that the number of arrests [in Taksim] reported to the bar association so far is 31, three of them lawyers.

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[Tim Drayton]

21.50 Lawyer Rozerin Seda, who was later released after having been arrested, claims to have suffered harassment, violence and insult.

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