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    TURKISH RIOT POLICE SAVAGELY ATTACKED PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATORS IN ISTANBUL

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    01.05.2009 15:31 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ On May 1, Turkish riot police savagely attacked
    peaceful demonstrators, including representatives of Revolutionary
    Movement and PKK Parties, with clubs and fired pepper spray and water
    cannon to prevent them taking part in a May Day rally heading to
    Taksim Square, the central meeting place in Istanbul. 5 were injured,
    and 10 detained, according to preliminary data.

    Last week Istanbul Governor Muammer Guler expressed his determination
    to enforce the ban on May Day demonstrations at Taksim Square, which
    was enacted after the military coup in 1980 by the then-ruling junta
    and has been continued by consecutive governments ever since. This has
    a particularly symbolic meaning because on May Day 1977 right-wing
    provocateurs, presumably helped by state forces, opened fire on a
    left-wing protest in Taksim, resulting in the deaths of 40 people.
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