Turkish PM Erdogan says patience run out with park protesters ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan issued a final warning to protesters occupying a park in central Istanbul on Thursday, saying patience had run out and calling on them to leave. "Our patience is at an end. I am making my warning for the last time. I say to the mothers and fathers please take your children in hand and bring them out... We cannot wait any more because Gezi ...
June 13, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
Turkish Police Retakes Square Amid Clashes Turkish protesters returned to Istanbul’s Taksim Square in smaller numbers and listened to a piano concert at the end of an evening of subdued demonstrations that followed the previous night’s violent clashes.
June 12, 2013 - Bloomberg
Yasar Buyukanit in 940 News Our nation has been watching the behaviour of those separatists who can't embrace Turkey's unitary nature, and centres of evil that systematically try to corrode the secular nature of the Turkish Republic,Gen. Yasar Buyukanit, chief of the...
Ross Wilson in USA Today The Turkish police responded quickly and effectively. We are deeply grateful for the work that they do to protect our official US government establishments here,Wilson said. "It is, of course, inappropriate now to speculate on who may have...
Hoshyar Zebari in 940 News Turkey's fears are legitimate but such things can be discussed,said Zebari, a Kurd from northern Iraq. "The perfect solution is the withdrawal of the Turkish forces from the borders."