Saturday
Jun012013
Middle East Today: Turkey --- How Serious Are the Protests?
Saturday, June 1, 2013 at 7:18 | Scott Lucas in EA Live, EA Middle East and Turkey, Middle East and Iran
A protester is injured by a water cannon after challenging a police van
See also Friday's Turkey Today: Protesters Defy Police Crackdown as Demonstrations Spread Beyond Istanbul
Headlines tonight are of the thousands who gathered in Istanbul's Taksim Square as police pulled back and allowed demonstrations; however, there have been large rallies in other Turkish cities. This is Bursa, Turkey's fourth-largest city, in the northwest of the country:
tagged Ahmet Şık, Bulent Arinc, Egypt, Emrah Gürel, Iraq, Khaled Said, Osman Orsal, Sırrı Süreyya Önder, Turkey