Turkish labor groups to incite a wave against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's contempt for authority, resulting in a one-day strike rallies and to support activists, their two weeks of confrontation with the government has been has shaken the country's secular democracy.
Turkish riot police deployed again in the two main cities, and authorities remain resolute stand against in Istanbul's Taksim Square, the center of street demonstrations. But Monday's police sweep is so strongly in recent days, with only scattered pockets of demonstrators who fired tear gas and water cannons.
After the activists were expelled from their respective sit in the adjacent park over the weekend, two labor union which represents about 330,000 workers pick up the slack Monday by calling the national strikes and demonstrations. Union members in Ankara, Istanbul, Izmir and other coastal areas by the thousands.
Voting defy Turkish Minister of the Interior, Muammer Guler, he warned that people who participate in illegal demonstrations "will bear the legal consequences." But one analyst called the "legitimate rights and legitimate expression of the constitutional assembly."
Corey Cali Scannell, in Istanbul's Bosphorus University political science professor, said: "People on the excessive use of police force, raise their voices." Demonstrators, he says, they are no longer intimidated by the authorities, "the threshold of fear has been broken."
A sign that the authorities have been increasingly impatient, Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc floated the prospect, the authorities can call the army overthrew the protest.
Erdogan's opponents have become increasingly skeptical about the gradual erosion of their so-called Islamic hierarchy of his ruling Liberal and secular values. Has passed new restrictions on alcohol tried, but later abandoned the plan to restrict women's access to abortion.
Government launched a nationwide protest and police repression has drawn criticism at home and abroad, May 31 environmental and other activists began in Taksim Square to protest against tree felling and the respective park redevelopment. Thousands of people took to the streets at night Since then, many honking car horns, waving Turkish flags.
Erdogan, who came to power 10 years and re-elected in 2011, at the weekend to mobilize his supporters, two huge rallies - insisted that his duty is to maintain order, railing against media coverage of protests criticized unknown He said that foreigners who want to hurt Turkey.
Monday Television footage showed the crowd government supporters in Istanbul down, some of the protesters chanted "hands against the police should be broken." On Twitter, a hot topic urged protesters to stay at home - may be pro-government thugs attacked Some of them expressed concerns.
However, overnight, a few hours, a lone man stood quietly Taksim Square, eventually joined about 20 other people who have taken the same former police escorted them away. The group made no resistance. Elsewhere in Istanbul sporadic riots broke out, with police water cannons and tear gas to take times.
Labor rallies against traditional sit-in at Gezi Park tent city feeling than to have a more structured, and, work stoppages involving many professionals, who made a liberal, urban class, mainly backed anti-Erdogan An protesters. But the strike is often the impact on daily life less pronounced in Turkey, a country of about 750,000, Monday's rally was no different.
Feride Aksu image tanik, Turkish Doctors' Union said it had called to stop their work, "to protest against the police forces attacked children, adolescents and everyone violent, and physicians who provide volunteer services injured detainees."
Turkish Medical Association said on Monday, was already dead four people, including a policeman, in the violence and repression, and to one in five people who were exposed to tear gas death investigation is ongoing. More than 7,800 people were injured; six are still in critical condition, 11 people lost their eyesight.
By the government's tough tactics to disperse the demonstrators in the past two weeks has drawn international criticism.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel - about 30,000 Turks - told her was "shocked" to see the police forces of the lens moves to clear each park on the weekend of the German broadcaster RTL. She criticized the Turkish police repression "too strong."
 
 



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