Thousands of Turks on Saturday dug a weekend anti-government protests, despite Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan immediately end his decades the most serious political unrest in electricity demand.
Activists in the heart of Istanbul's Taksim Square, where helicopters and armored vehicles supported by riot police clashed with demonstrators, one week ago, at a makeshift protest camp spent the night, sleeping in tents and damaged buses, or wrapped in a blanket under the plane trees.
What began as a campaign against the reconstruction of their parks Taksim Square circling a corner into an unprecedented display of public that Erdogan and his Islamic rooted AK Party dictatorship anger.
Groups of protesters clashed night, police fired tear gas and water cannons after night in Istanbul, Ankara and other cities around the country, in the past more than a week, killing three people were killed and about 4,000 injured.
Erdogan demanded an immediate halt on Friday to protest, saying that they had set up a "campaign of lies." He has been marked as a robbery, and that is being manipulated by "terrorist" group protests.
Erdogan gave no indication of any immediate plans to eliminate Taksim and has appeared in a park in the capital Ankara tent village. However, the gathering, marking a challenge leader whose authority is based on three consecutive general election victories.
"Let them attack, they can not stop us, shouted:" Turkish Communist one, shouting through a megaphone from a white van in Taksim Square, the cheering crowd.
"AK Party will go. This will end."
Protesters paving stones and corrugated CTT trail built barricades Taksim try to protect themselves from potential beaten by the police. But their actions have brought the impasse part of central Istanbul, it is unclear how long the authorities will not tolerate their existence.
Square both sides of the luxury hotel should do a roaring trade began in the summer in the world's most visited cities. But earlier in the week to see the conflict may lead to repeated forced evictions.
Anger boiling
Erdogan's protest, as a personal insult.
He has developed a number of democratic reforms, to tame the army, overthrew four governments in four years, began to enter negotiations with the EU, control of abuse by the police and forging peace talks with the Kurdish rebels, ending three decades of war cost 40,000 lives. Per capita income has tripled in the name of his business flourished under the rule.
But in recent years, critics say his style is always forceful and emotional, has become tyrannical.
The media are under pressure instability, and arrest suspected coup plot as well as restrictions on alcohol sales, such as the movement of military and other digital secular middle class, especially the Turks who are sensitive to any infringement of religion on their daily lives.
Intense repression, condemned the foreign forces, and what began in their peaceful protest park is the last straw, causing frustration and simmering boil over Erdogan's leadership.
"These protests are partly economic and social transformation in his success. Joost, saying:" There is a new generation, who do not want to be bullied by the Prime Minister, who is afraid of their lifestyle is dangerous Lagendijk, former European Members and academic Istanbul.
It is close to Erdogan's AK Party was established in 2001, only a year after the crushing of the traditional secular parties in the elections, it is recommended surrounded by a sense within the leadership, and influential, if different forces are keen the elimination of Erdogan.
Radikal newspaper quoted party sources, said the AK Party executive meeting may discuss last Saturday called for the possibility of early elections, although it can change the rules so that the party seeking a fourth term Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, rather than running for president.
Erdogan that he has no intention of poke - pointing the AK Party, 50% of the vote in the last election - and he has no clear or foreign counterparties, the fragmented streets and the opposition in parliament.
 
 
 



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