Riot police in Turkey have fired tear gas, rubber bullets and used water cannons on demonstrators in Istanbul and Ankara protesting against government plans to impose curbs on the internet.
Rights groups say the proposals, which were approved by parliament last week, amount to censorship and will increase government control of the internet.
Up to 2,000 protesters chanted government resign
and all united against fascism
at Istanbul’s Taksim Square, some of them hurling fireworks and stones at police.
Everywhere Taksim, everywhere resistance,
they shouted, using the slogan of last June’s anti-government protests that first erupted in the square.
The demonstration was organised in protest at plans to impose curbs on the internet and over the graft scandal rocking the government.
It broke up after the police action without any immediate reports of injuries or arrests — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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