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Turkish Police Fire Tear Gas At May Day Demonstrators In Istanbul
Police in Istanbul fired tear gas and rubber bullets to break up a group of May Day demonstrators on Monday, a Reuters witness said, as authorities detained more than 200 people at protests around the city.
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Turkish Police Fire Tear Gas For Second Day After Seizing Newspaper
Turkish police fired tear gas and plastic pellets today to disperse some 2,000 protesters gathered outside the country's biggest newspaper after the authorities seized control of it.
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Turkey's Kurds See Fear Behind Election Setback
Turkish police fired tear gas against protesters in the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir on Sunday after an election that saw President Tayyip Erdogan's hold on the country tightened and the main pro-Kurdish party almost voted out of parliament.
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Turkish Police Storm Offices of Critical Media Group
Turkish riot police firing tear gas and water cannon today stormed into the Istanbul headquarters of a media group critical of the government, just days before a weekend election.
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Fire in Turkish Mine Delays Rescue Work, Death Toll Rises to 299
A fire broke out on Saturday in part of a mine where nearly 300 miners were killed in Turkey's worst ever industrial disaster, hindering efforts to find up to three remaining workers believed to be still underground, the country's energy minister said.
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Police Fire Tear Gas as 10,000 Protest at Turkey Mine Site
Turkish riot police on Friday fired tear gas, water cannon and plastic bullets at thousands of protesters in the town of Soma, scene of the country's deadliest industrial disaster.
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Turkish Police Use Tear Gas on Thousands Protesting Mine Blast
Turkish police on Wednesday fired tear gas and water cannon at thousands in the capital Ankara who were protesting a deadly mine explosion, an AFP photographer at the scene reported.
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Turkish police break up student demo with tear gas
Turkish riot police fired tear gas and halted a march by some 100 students Saturday protesting against the clearance of trees on an Ankara university campus to make way for a controversial road development.
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Turkey protests: Police crush barricades in Istanbul square
Hundreds of riot police overran improvised protest barricades at Istanbul's Taksim Square on Tuesday, firing tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon in running battles with those who have been occupying the area for more than a week.
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Thousands take to streets on third day of Turkey protests
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Turkey's four biggest cities on Sunday and clashed with riot police firing tear gas in the third day of the fiercest anti-government protests in years.
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Turkish police fire tear gas in worst protests in years
Turkish police fired tear gas and water cannon on Friday at demonstrators in central Istanbul, wounding scores of people and prompting rallies in other cities in the fiercest anti-government protests in years.
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Turkish Police Fire Tear Gas At May Day Demonstrators In Istanbul
Police in Istanbul fired tear gas and rubber bullets to break up a group of May Day demonstrators on Monday, a Reuters witness said, as authorities detained more than 200 people at protests around the city.
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Turkish Police Fire Tear Gas For Second Day After Seizing Newspaper
Turkish police fired tear gas and plastic pellets today to disperse some 2,000 protesters gathered outside the country's biggest newspaper after the authorities seized control of it.
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Turkey's Kurds See Fear Behind Election Setback
Turkish police fired tear gas against protesters in the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir on Sunday after an election that saw President Tayyip Erdogan's hold on the country tightened and the main pro-Kurdish party almost voted out of parliament.
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Turkish Police Storm Offices of Critical Media Group
Turkish riot police firing tear gas and water cannon today stormed into the Istanbul headquarters of a media group critical of the government, just days before a weekend election.
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Fire in Turkish Mine Delays Rescue Work, Death Toll Rises to 299
A fire broke out on Saturday in part of a mine where nearly 300 miners were killed in Turkey's worst ever industrial disaster, hindering efforts to find up to three remaining workers believed to be still underground, the country's energy minister said.
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Police Fire Tear Gas as 10,000 Protest at Turkey Mine Site
Turkish riot police on Friday fired tear gas, water cannon and plastic bullets at thousands of protesters in the town of Soma, scene of the country's deadliest industrial disaster.
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Turkish Police Use Tear Gas on Thousands Protesting Mine Blast
Turkish police on Wednesday fired tear gas and water cannon at thousands in the capital Ankara who were protesting a deadly mine explosion, an AFP photographer at the scene reported.
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Turkish police break up student demo with tear gas
Turkish riot police fired tear gas and halted a march by some 100 students Saturday protesting against the clearance of trees on an Ankara university campus to make way for a controversial road development.
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Turkey protests: Police crush barricades in Istanbul square
Hundreds of riot police overran improvised protest barricades at Istanbul's Taksim Square on Tuesday, firing tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon in running battles with those who have been occupying the area for more than a week.
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Thousands take to streets on third day of Turkey protests
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Turkey's four biggest cities on Sunday and clashed with riot police firing tear gas in the third day of the fiercest anti-government protests in years.
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Turkish police fire tear gas in worst protests in years
Turkish police fired tear gas and water cannon on Friday at demonstrators in central Istanbul, wounding scores of people and prompting rallies in other cities in the fiercest anti-government protests in years.
