Turkish police use tear gas against opposition demonstrators in Ankara, Reuters reports the statement of one of the witnesses of the event.
A group of about a thousand demonstrators, mostly young people, came into conflict with the police on the way to Kizilaj Square.
They demand the resignation of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Erdogan: The protests have nothing to do with the park
Erdogan said that the intelligence services are investigating whether foreign factors have anything to do with the riots. He claims that the protests have nothing to do with the reconstruction of the park.
Today he left for a previously planned visit to North Africa. Last night, Erdogan blamed the Twitter community for spreading false information and said that Twitter is evil.
It was calm this morning
On the fourth day of the fiercest anti-government demonstrations, protesters set fire to the headquarters of the ruling AK Party, but the streets were calm this morning.
In the western port of Izmir last night, protesters threw incendiary bombs at the headquarters of the AK Party, and a video broadcast on television showed part of the building burning. Firefighters, meanwhile, extinguished the fire.
Demonstrators tore shelters from bus stops, stones from sidewalks and street signs to build barricades on the main street by the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul, which was the scene of the heaviest clashes last night, and the walls were covered with graffiti.
The streets around the office of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul were closed, and the police used tear gas to disperse the protesters at dawn this morning, reports Reuters.
On the main street near Erdogan's office, one protester drove a small mechanical excavator to the police, while other protesters followed him. In the nearby mosque, doctors were helping the injured.
Police raided a shopping mall in central Ankara where protesters had taken refuge and detained several hundred people.
Interior Minister Muammar Giler said that more than 1.700 people have been arrested across the country since the protests began, but that most have since been released, reports AFP.
He added that 58 civilians and 115 members of the security forces were injured during several days of demonstrations.
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