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The Turkish police detained around 80 protestors during the newly broken out rallied in Gezi Park in the evening of 8 July. One seriously wounded person suffered a brain hemorrhage and was being treated at a nearby hospital. Turkish police fired tear gas and water cannons on Monday at demonstrators who tried to defy a closure order and enter Istanbul’s Gezi Park.
Reminder: The park, part of the city’s Taksim Square, was only open for a few hours after Istanbul's governor allowed people back in, following often violent protests last month against plans to redevelop the area, when riot police ordered it shut ahead of a planned rally.
Hundreds of people were forced to leave before the start of the protest, organized by the Taksim Solidarity group of political parties and non-governmental organizations opposed to the redevelopment.
July 09, 2013 at 16:45