Accounts differ, but Daesh supporters at Istanbul University appear to have staged a demonstration in Beyazit Square close to the university at about 12.30 pm on Monday, and were protected by a huge phalanx of both plain-clothed and riot police from the vast majority of students who wanted to break up the demonstration (shown above). Granted, the right to demonstrate is enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights, but the Turkish police have most certainly not given the same protection to secularist or anti-Daesh demonstrators in recent years. In fact, two students in Mersin are to be prosecuted after being arrested at a demonstration to mark the death of a Turkish citizen who died in Kobane fighting Daesh.
