Turkish Protests: “Everywhere Taksim, Everywhere Resistance”

Local Editor

Around 5,000 protesters demonstrated in the Central Anatolian province of Eskişehir all night on Tuesday night, in which police then dispersed the crowd with gas bombs and water cannons.

The police crackdown injured three protesters, a journalist, and a police officer, and managed to eventually disperse the crowd, and clashes lasted until 5 am on Wednesday.

Demonstrators chanted slogans like "everywhere Taksim, everywhere resistance" and "government resign" in Eskibağlar.

On Tuesday, Turkish authorities arrested dozens of people in several cities to stamp out weeks of antigovernment protests.

Moreover, Turkey's Interior Ministry said more than 70 people had been detained in the sweeps in Istanbul and Ankara on Tuesday.

The Turkish state news agency said antiterrorism units had been deployed during Tuesday's arrests, however the detainees' lawyers noted that people were suspected only of illegal gathering, and had no connections to terrorism.

Source: News Agencies, edited by website team