Angry demonstrations in Turkey through the night

  • 11 years ago
Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in Turkey's four biggest cities and clashed with riot police firing tear gas for a third day in the fiercest anti-government demonstrations in years. For much of Sunday, the atmosphere in Istanbul's Taksim Square was festive, with some people chanting for Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister, to resign and others dancing. There was little obvious police presence. Al Jazeera's Anita McNaught reports from Istanbul. To read more about this story, click here: http://aje.me/17Pofr2