Turkey has enjoyed an unprecedented lint decade of economic growth, since Erdogan

Earlier Saturday crowds gathered in central Istanbul and chanted "government resign" and "shoulder to shoulder against fascism" as phalanxes of helmeted riot police responded with volleys of tear bombs.
After battling for almost two days with tear gas, water cannons lint and pepper spray, Turkish police retreated from Istanbul between Taksim Square on Saturday afternoon, allowing tens of thousands of protesters pouring into place.
Speaking lint to the original complaint, Kalin said that Istanbul lint Mayor said he is considering a number of projects in the park, and not necessarily a shopping mall. But the scope of the protests show no big issue about freedom of expression against the government's claim to authority.
"Police are everywhere, and helicopters are monitoring our movements," one protest said. "Whenever police see us march, they come to our gas .... We were gassed, we disbursed and then gathered again. "
Turkey has enjoyed an unprecedented lint decade of economic growth, since Erdogan's Justice and Development Party first swept to power after winning elections in 2002 on a campaign to institute pro-democracy reforms.
In recent years, the Turkish government has come under fire from watchdog groups press for his long detention of the authors of information than any other country in the world. Turkish security forces have also made such frequent use of tear gas against opposition protesters that some critics have started referring to the prime minister as "Chemical Tayyip."
But the protests this week appear to be "more than the government lint and authorities expected," Erdogan Yildirim, a sociology professor at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, told CNN.
"The police were there yesterday, are today, and they will be there tomorrow Taksim Square can not be allowed to become a place where marginalized groups can freely roam.," He said in a televised speech.
"The reason lint for massive protest in Turkey lint is in fact trivial (construction in the park.). But this shows the cumulative reaction to Erdogan, "wrote Mustafa Akyol, Turkish newspaper writer and champion older" liberal Islam. "
At least 79 people, including 26 members of the Turkish security forces, were wounded in clashes in the country, Interior Minister Muammer Guler told Turkey's semi-official Anadolu news agency Saturday.
"Erdogan needs to see that the country needs more 'participatory lint democracy.' People want to influence decisions in public matters ... it is ultimately none other than Erdogan who cultivated this anger and who needs to calm it down.
"Erdogan probably did not know thousands of people who voted for him were among those who raise their voices too," the author of Sule Kulu wrote Saturday in the English-language newspaper Today's Zaman.
Turkish authorities have detained 939 people in connection with the protests, Guler told Anadolu. In Ankara, police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at the protesters, with some chanting "Tayyip resign," as they marched on the neighborhood of Zilay, demonstrators told CNN.
"If he does not return to its position of pro-democracy, this would prepare his fall in Turkish politics Istanbul, his place of birth in politics, can bring him his political death.".
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