Turkish Deputy Prime Minister said on Monday that, if necessary, to help quell popular protests have swept the Turkish city in the past two weeks, can be called the army for the first time the possibility of military action have been proposed.
Bulent Arinc in Ankara, where 1,000 striking union workers face temporary closure on the police backed by several water cannons, the police retreated before the crowd to leave.
In Istanbul, the largest protest against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan made an open challenge to his 10-year leadership of the cradle, hundreds of union members also walk in sympathy with the anti-government demonstrations.
They were prevented from entering the Taksim Square, the focus of riots, but after the worker has left between 200 and 300 mostly young demonstrators, some of them threw stones, slingshots, fighting with the police.
Violence is relatively mild weekend, saw some far the most intense conflict, police fired tear gas and water cannon to clear thousands of people from the square.
"Our police, our security forces are doing their job, and if it is not enough, then military police will do their job and if that was not enough ... We can even use the elements of the Turkish Armed Forces, "Arinc told Turkish state-run TRT television.
Any use of the army would be a dramatic step forward in Turkey, Erdogan has been through democratic reforms, including tame the army, overthrew four governments in the four years to push.
Also in Monday's clash in Eskisehir city, about 200 kilometers (120 miles) southeast of Istanbul, police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse the crowd and cleared hundreds of tents, Dogan news agency reported.
Monday's trade union march was peaceful, small, and, although it is unclear how many answers 850,000 public workers' union called a strike, there is no sign of major disruption.
What began in late May has grown into a movement against Erdogan, his opponents say, in their personal lives disrupted overbearing and meddling government plans to build a public park next to Taksim environmental protection as a protest.
Support for the opposition rose
Riots have not seriously threatened Erdogan's stance.
A new poll shows that 35.3% of people would vote for him in a general election immediately AK Party, 36.3% higher than in April.
In the first time since the protests began a survey released, opposition groups have also gained popularity, most notably support for cogeneration from 15.3% two months ago, jumped to 22.7% in June.
EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele said he feared the development in Turkey, its EU accession negotiations have stalled, partly over concerns regarding human rights and freedom of speech record.
Germany has long cherished admit Turkey to the EU's concerns. Chancellor Angela Merkel said she was "shocked and like many others," in Turkey's tough response to the protest.
"I want to see those who ...... have different opinions and different ideas have a certain space, in the twenty-first century Turkish society," she told German broadcaster RTL.
"In Turkey, the moment what happened, is not freedom of expression and freedom of demonstration, or consistent with our ideas."
Erdogan tried to regain the initiative in the weekend's big rally in Istanbul and Ankara. Thousands turned out to see a leader who has won three consecutive elections, they believe unfairly under siege.
Blunt says 59-year-old said rallies kicked off, for the local elections next year, instead of unrest, but they were widely seen as a show of strength.
Erdogan told provocative manipulation of the "terrorists" had been dismissed suggestions riots, he behaves like a dictator, not a constant protesters on the streets of supporters waving flags of the ocean in Istanbul on Sunday.
Just a few kilometers away, police clashes with protesters, fought running battles continued into the evening.
In sharp contrast between events emphasize how different parts of Istanbul, Turkey protest polarization, and its conservative religious center largely supported by Erdogan, and Western liberals swell the ranks of the protesters.
 



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