Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has vowed to push ahead with the controversial commercial development of Gezi Park that sparked violent clashes with police, as the protests spread to Ankara.
Riot police fired tear gas at protesters occupying Istanbul’s Taksim Square today in a bid to break up a four-day protest against a major construction project in the area.
After numerous failed attempts at peace negotiations, the signs of an agreement between the two sides looks promising with the Turkish government ready to empower the BDP as the outlet for the demobilisation and politicisation of the PKK cadres.
The US embassy in Ankara, Turkey has been hit in a suspected suicide attack killing the bomber and a security guard with another person rushed to hospital.
NATO troops from the US arrived in Turkey on Friday to implement Patriot missile defence batteries on the border with Syria to protect Turkish towns after the Syrian army launched a series of Scud missiles against rebel held towns near the Turkish border.