
Stephen Cook: The situation in Turkey sadly boiled over last night after police stormed the protest camp in Istanbul’s Gezi Park using teargas, rubber bullets and bulldozers during a concert for activists, leaving many wounded.
By Peter Beaumont in Istanbul, The Observer – June 16, 2013
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/15/turkey-police-clear-gezi-park
Thousands of people took to the streets of Istanbul overnight on Sunday, erecting barricades and starting bonfires, after riot police used teargas and water cannons to clear the protest camp at the centre of Turkey’s anti-government unrest.