Protesters
set fire to the Izmir offices of Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan's AKP party overnight, as riots continued across Turkey.
In the western port city of Izmir, protesters through fire bombs at
AK Party offices overnight and television footage showed part of the
building ablaze. Firefighters put out the fire, the Dogan news agency
reported.
Bus shelters, paving stones and street signs ripped up
by protesters to make barricades that littered a major avenue by the
Bosphorus strait in Istanbul where some of the heaviest clashes took
place overnight, and graffiti covered walls.
Roads around Prime
Minister Tayyip Erdogan's office in Istanbul were sealed off as police
fired teargas to push back protesters in the early hours of Monday.
In
the main street near Erdogan's office, one demonstrator drove a small
mechanical digger towards police lines as other protesters followed
behind. At a nearby mosque, medical staff including trainee doctors
treated those hurt in the clashes.
Police raided a shopping
complex in the center of the capital Ankara where they believed
demonstrators were sheltering, detaining several hundred.
Can't wait to hear what they have to say about this in the US State Department briefing later today. After all, Erdogan is President Hussein Obama's Best Friend Forever.
I'm waiting for Erdogan's apology for the protestors his forces killed.
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