In the police and sporadic clashes erupted between demonstrators in Istanbul overnight after a weekend, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in an attempt to steal back the agenda, to rally his supporters and expel protesters from Istanbul Park.
Two unions called a nationwide strike Monday demonstrators forced evictions from their parks, tree-lined center of Istanbul's Taksim Square corner, two weeks of intense anti-government protests have spread to other major cities in the focus .
Labor organizations on behalf of doctors, engineers and dentists say they will also participate.
Hundreds of thousands of Erdogan's supporters gathered in Istanbul on Sunday parade ground to hear the Prime Minister said, riot police fired tear gas to disperse protesters in the city center a few kilometers away.
Provocation Erdogan told two weeks of unrest has manipulated "terrorists" and dismissed suggestions that he behaves like a dictator, a constant for those who do not take to the streets waving flags of supporters of the ocean.
"They said: 'You're too tough," they said, "dictator." What kind of a dictator, which is, who met each park occupiers and honest environment? Is there such a dictator do? "Erdogan said approval from the crowd roar.
He rejected the "just a few more than an attempt to dominate the majority of demonstrations, we can not allow this, we will not allow it."
DOWN side streets skirmishes
Supported by helicopter, several plainclothes and riot police armed with batons, firing tear gas and chasing rock throwing youth gangs Taksim Sunday evening, to the surrounding side streets to prevent them from regrouping.
But also in the other areas of the city, has so far been largely avoided violence, including around the Galata Bridge, across the historic Sultanahmet district, upscale Nisantasi district interference.
Small-scale environmental protests quickly spread to a larger movement, involving all walks of life who do not like what they say is Erdogan's domineering leadership style and his unnecessary government interference in people's lives.
Conflict Erdogan's leadership is not directly threatened, but they had damaged Turkey's image in the volatile Middle East oasis of stability edge and presented him with his 10-year reign of the biggest challenges.
Blunt said that the Turkish prime minister has long been the most popular politician, supervision decade of unprecedented prosperity, in three consecutive election victory, his AK Party won more votes large share.
Erdogan, who is also solved on Saturday, and his ruling AK Party in Ankara supporters say, rallies kick off local election campaign next year, rather than unrest related, but they are widely seen as a show of strength .
Istanbul Kazlicesme crowds packed the festival, many people go for a few kilometers, turned out to support them who feel besieged leader.
"We are the silent majority, rather than rogue who is trying to scare us, and said:" Ruveyda ALKAN, 32 years old, her head covered in a black veil and waving a red Turkish flag.
Two weeks of unrest have left four people dead and about 5,000 injured, according to the Turkish Medical Association.
 
 



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