NBCNews.com (blog) | Turkey's Erdogan warns patience with protests will run out Reuters ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) - Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan warned protesters who have taken to the streets across Turkey demanding his resignation that his patience has its limits and compared the unrest with an army attempt six years ago to curb his ... Turkey's PM calls protesters 'a handful of looters' Turkey's leader climbs on bus, lambasts protesters Turkey's prime minister berates protesters |
New York Times | Pushing Back, and Raising a Glass New York Times ISPARTA, Turkey — After retaking Taksim Square in Istanbul after hours of ugly street battles with police officers firing tear gas this month, many of the haggard protesters cracked bottles of Efes beer and raised them in a mock toast to their prime ... |
Unrest continues in Turkey NBCNews.com reporter: it is the biggest protest movement against prime minister erdowan in his decades ruling turkey. tens of thousands in istanbul alone. the protests were triggered by plans to bulldoze a park. but when police moved in this force, protests grew ... |
Yahoo! News | Turkey's prime minister's party rules out early poll; police clash with ... Washington Post ANKARA, Turkey — Police in Ankara fired tear gas and used water cannons to disperse thousands of people protesting near government buildings on Saturday, as Turkey's biggest wave of anti-government protests in decades entered its second week with no ... Tens of thousands defy Turkey PM with fresh protests Unrest raises hopes for Turkey Turkey protests: Erdogan accuses EU of hypocrisy - Friday 7 June |
The Guardian | Why Turkey's mainstream media chose to show penguins rather than protests The Guardian In terms of press freedom, Turkey ranks number 154 according to Reporters without Borders (RSF), just after Mexico and before Swaziland and Azerbaijan. At least 33 journalists are in jail, and many more have been cowered into submission by pending ... |
The Guardian | Erdoğan accuses EU members of hypocrisy over Turkey protests The Guardian Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has accused European Union member states of hypocrisy and double standards, and rejected criticism by Brussels of his crackdown on anti-government protesters whom he branded "vandals". Erdoğan said ... |
Turkey's leader denounces nation's anti-government protesters as thousands ... Washington Post ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey's prime minister climbed on top of a bus to give a fiery speech to thousands of his supporters Sunday, challenging increasingly angry anti-government protesters to beat his party at the ballot box after they also flooded the ... |
Turkey's Social Media And Smartphones Key To 'Occupy Gezi' Protests Huffington Post ISTANBUL, Turkey – In between the boisterous chants calling for Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's resignation, the protestors at this city's Gezi Park glance at their Smartphones to quickly browse Twitter for reliable, uncensored news. The social ... |
Yahoo! News | Pro- and anti-govt protesters clash in Turkey Yahoo! News Associated Press/Vadim Ghirda - An ambulance makes it's way between protesters in Taksim Square early Sunday, June 9, 2013. Tens of thousands of people thronged Istanbul's Taksim Square Saturday, and thousands …more more turned out in central ... |
euronews | Turkey: early elections ruled out euronews On Saturday night in Istanbul police and protesters clashed in the working class neighbourhood of Gazi on the ninth day of civil unrest. A few kilometres away tens of thousands thronged to a mass peaceful protest in Taksim square. Rival football fans ... |