Turkish police replaced the protesters from Taxim Square

Special forces of the Turkish police on Tuesday night were supplanted protesters from Taxim Square in Istanbul, where protests do not stop for the second week, BBCreports . Police used tear gas, waterlets and rubber bullets. The protests retreated to the Gezi Park, in which the tent camp was defeated (

In the morning, the police drove construction equipment for the analysis of barricades. Located in the square were replaced in the nearest streets. There were new clashes with the police. "There are serious clashes on small streets around the square. The police are thrown with stones, bottles and smoke grenades. There is a real meat grinder," the RT correspondent reports .

By the middle of the day, the clashes stopped. The police left Taxim. However, after some time, the police returned to the square. Activists in Gezi Park lit rubber pipes so that they were not visible behind smoke. According to the scene, Alexander Ivanov, the police are not trying to advance, but periodically conducts shelling gas.

The police task is not to eliminate the camp, said the Governor of Istanbul Husyin Avni Mutlu earlier. “Our goal is to remove posters and flags from the statue of Ataturk and the Ataturk cultural center,” he wrote on Twitter. “We have no other goals, Gezi Park and Taxim Square will remain untouched.”

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Claces with the police also occurred in Ankara. The government decided to restore control of those areas in which the opposition is especially active, the BBC correspondent notes. The day before, Turkish Prime Minister Raidzep Erdogan agreed to meet with the leaders of the protesters. The meeting is planned for Wednesday, but the events of last night can disrupt it.

Erdogan is trying to stay in power, creating tension in the country, and throws society into the fire, said the leader of the opposition republican People's Party Kemal Kylychdaroglu. Protesters require more freedoms, he said. The opposition also rejected the statements of the authorities that his party was behind the protest movement. “When we call them at the demonstration, no one comes. And if we tell them now to stop protests, do not think that they will disappear home,” said the leader of the RNP.

Observers draw attention to the fact that many participants in the demonstrations are representatives of a well -educated secular middle class. They are oppressed by the lack of political freedoms and political culture in Turkey.

Last week, speaking to his supporters, Erdogan warned that the patience of the government had a limit, and called the protesters of the protest "looters". The Prime Minister also called on supporters to prepare for pro-government rallies, which should be held in Istanbul and Ankara the next weekend.

The unrest in Turkey began on May 31, after the police with the use of tear gas dispelled a sedentary strike on Taxim Square in Istanbul. Its participants protested against the plans of the authorities to destroy the Gezi Park located there and build a shopping and entertainment complex in its place. Protests quickly took on an anti -government character. According to Tuesday morning, as a result of clashes of demonstrators with the police, four were killed and more than a thousand people were injured, hundreds of people were detained.