[url]http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/08/19351829-turkey-reopens-istanbuls-gezi-park-protest-spot[/url]
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ISTANBUL - Turkey reopened an Istanbul park at the heart of last month's demonstrations against Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan Monday – but protest leaders plan to hold another rally there.
Istanbul Governor Huseyin Avni Mutlu announced the reopening three weeks after riot police expelled protesters from Gezi Park following a fortnight of frequently violent protests against plans to redevelop the area.
The protests rapidly mutated into nationwide demonstrations against Erdogan, accused by critics after a decade in power of increasingly authoritarian rule. The unrest died down in late June but police fired teargas and water cannon to disperse protesters who sought to march on Taksim Square and the adjoining park on Saturday.
"We have seen with the visit carried out today that all our work has been completed," Mutlu told reporters in the park, which has been spruced up with the planting of new trees, plants and lawns since the protesters were evicted on June 15.
Taksim Solidarity, combining political and non-governmental groups opposed to the construction of a replica Ottoman era barracks on the site of the park, has called for its supporters to hold a public meeting there
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Some trivia: There was a guy who was attacking the protestors yesterday:
[t]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BOg0ALdCMAAQ05L.jpg:large[/t]
He got released after questioning.
[editline]8th July 2013[/editline]
aaand some pictures, live from Gezi park and around
[t]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BOrSxcoCcAAA6cp.jpg:large[/t]
[t]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BOrMc5OCEAA_Ivs.jpg:large[/t]
[t]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BOq-aayCQAAAXCq.jpg:large[/t]
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