A demonstration in a park in Istanbul, Turkey, escalated quickly as police moved in to clear out the protesters. <\/p>\n
Reuters reports<\/a> that tourists are among the hundred-plus injured:<\/p>\n Turkish police fired tear gas and water cannon on Friday at protesters occupying a park in central Istanbul, wounding scores including tourists in the harshest crackdown so far on days of anti-government unrest.<\/p>\n The protest at Gezi Park started late on Monday after developers tore up trees but has widened into a broader demonstration against Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP).<\/p>\n Friday’s violence erupted after a dawn police raid on demonstrators who had camped for days in the park in anger at plans to build a shopping mall. Clouds of tear gas rose around the area in Taksim Square, long a venue for political protest.<\/p>\n Twitter users are passing along pictures:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/mirkoschaefer\/status\/340446801981214722\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/_ozan_cetin\/status\/340499280362086401\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/acarvin\/status\/340510046888808448\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/IvanCNN\/status\/340464086984822787\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/SodaLemonSalt\/status\/340518389556600833\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/alisteaparty\/status\/340424986101698560\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/sarhosadam\/status\/340466344711581696\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/IvanCNN\/status\/340507333081841664\n Why, yes it did<\/a>.<\/p>\n Video of one protester finding out the hard way that water cannons pack a wallop:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This particular revolution is apparently not being televised locally:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/IvanCNN\/status\/340492752133439488 Read more: http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/05\/31\/turkish-police-fire-tear-gas-water-cannon-at-occupygezi-protesters-tourists-among-injured-photos-video\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ReutersWorld\/status\/340475620226134017 A demonstration in a park in Istanbul, Turkey, escalated quickly as police moved in to clear out the protesters. Reuters reports that tourists are among the hundred-plus injured: Turkish police fired tear gas and water cannon on Friday at protesters occupying a park in central Istanbul, wounding scores including tourists in the harshest crackdown … Continue reading Turkish police fire tear gas, water cannon at park protesters [photos, video]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4468,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anxiety"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/14323528613618-istanbul.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}