Teargas at NATO Turkey summit

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ISTANBUL, Turkey -- Police used tear gas to stop hundreds of protesters from approaching the conference center where NATO leaders were meeting in Istanbul.

The protesters threw fire-bombs as they clashed with security forces Monday, three kilometers from a barricaded zone in the center of the city where the summit is taking place, The Associated Press reported.

World leaders including U.S. President George W. Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and French President Jacques Chirac were meeting as the historic handover of power was taking place in Baghdad. ( Full story)

Television footage from Turkey showed police using clubs and water cannons to keep the protesters at bay as an armored personnel carrier moved through the street.

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/06/28/turkey.bush/index.html

[Whoa_Nelly]

1. And well they should be upset!

Three Turks being held hostage, an American Marine...looks like 4 more beheadings this week...and this whole BushCo Regime is makeing me sick at heart...GD them!

[struggle4progress]

2. Protestors and police clash in Turkey

Around 30 people have been injured in bloody protests between police and anti-Nato protestors in Istanbul.

The violence erupted only a few kilometres from the venue of the Nato summit and saw protestors hurl paving stones and petrol bombs at riot police who responded with tear gas and water cannon.

A hospital official said that around 30 protesters and police had been brought in for treatment. State-run Anatolian news agency said 15 people including five police officers were injured.

Witnesses said riot police and paramilitary gendarmes backed by armoured vehicles baton charged some 2,000 demonstrators in the Okmeydani area of Turkey's biggest city, about three kilometres west of the summit building.
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