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PROTESTERS AND POLICE CLASH AGAIN IN ISTANBUL
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10:37, 1 August, 2013
YEREVAN, AUGUST 1, ARMENPRESS: The Police fired water cannons and
tear gas at a group of demonstrators who gathered in Taksim Square to
protest the violence used against a 14-year-old teenager who has been
in intensive care for 46 days after being hit by a tear gas canister
in Istanbul during the Gezi Park unrest. As reported by Armenpress,
quoting the Turkish Dogan News Agency, Berkin Elvan was not a protester
but a bystander who was attacked after stepping out to buy bread during
a police intervention in Istanbul's Okmeydanı neighborhood on June 15.
Hundreds turned out to show their support in a demonstration called by
the young protester's family, seeking justice and action against those
officers who fired the gas canister. Opposition Republican People's
Party (CHP) lawmaker Sezgin Tanrıkulu also attended the protest.
Elvan's condition is critical due to an infection, the family had said
in their call for protest. However, riot police stationed around the
Taksim area started to use water cannons after the protesters refused
to disperse.
Scuffles occurred when police officers tried to push protesters
to the entrance of the pedestrian İstiklal Street. The parents of
the injured teenager, Sami and Gulsum Elvan, who had read a written
statement, were trapped inside the crowd.
Officers were chasing demonstrators who have escaped into the side
streets. A protester has been injured and taken to hospital after
being hit by an "unidentified object" on the head, the report also
said. An officer was also reportedly firing rubber bullets from the
top of an armored police vehicle.
Police have not allowed demonstrations in Taksim Square, despite
having reopened Gezi Park in the second week of July.
The disorders in Turkey began when on May 28 2013 the plans of
replacing Taksim Gezi Park with a reconstruction of the historic Taksim
Military Barracks (demolished in 1940) with the possibility of housing
a shopping mall became known. The protests developed into riots when
a group occupying the park was attacked by police. The subjects of
the protests have since broadened beyond the development of Taksim
Gezi Park, developing into wider anti-government demonstrations. The
protests have also spread to other cities in Turkey, and protests have
been seen in other countries with significant Turkish communities. On
May 31 2013, police suppressed the protesters with tear gas, arrested
at least 60 people and injured hundreds. The police action received
wide attention online. 5 men died in the clashes between the police
and the protesters, more than 7,500 people were injured and about
5,000 of people were arrested. By the data provided by the Ministry of
Internal Affairs of Turkey, about 2,5 million people from 79 regions
took part in the anti-government demonstrations held in Turkey.
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From: Mihran Keheyian
Subject: Two Non-Combat Deaths In Two Days
Two Non-Combat Deaths In Two Days
The Ministry of Defense informed that on July 31 at 1:20 conscript
Manuchar Meruzhan Manucharyan injured himself deadly from the AKS-74
gun attached to him at the sentry post. This is preliminary
information, the MoD states.
The MoD investigative service has launched proceedings under Article
110 Para 1 of the criminal code on causing somebody to commit a
suicide.
Earlier on July 30 conscript Arman Hovsep Muradyan born in 1993
reportedly committed a suicide. The suicide is the preliminary version
offered by the Ministry of Defense.
11:10 01/08/2013
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/country/view/30597
From: A. Papazian
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/727917/protesters-and-police-clash-again-in-istanbul.html
10:37, 1 August, 2013
YEREVAN, AUGUST 1, ARMENPRESS: The Police fired water cannons and
tear gas at a group of demonstrators who gathered in Taksim Square to
protest the violence used against a 14-year-old teenager who has been
in intensive care for 46 days after being hit by a tear gas canister
in Istanbul during the Gezi Park unrest. As reported by Armenpress,
quoting the Turkish Dogan News Agency, Berkin Elvan was not a protester
but a bystander who was attacked after stepping out to buy bread during
a police intervention in Istanbul's Okmeydanı neighborhood on June 15.
Hundreds turned out to show their support in a demonstration called by
the young protester's family, seeking justice and action against those
officers who fired the gas canister. Opposition Republican People's
Party (CHP) lawmaker Sezgin Tanrıkulu also attended the protest.
Elvan's condition is critical due to an infection, the family had said
in their call for protest. However, riot police stationed around the
Taksim area started to use water cannons after the protesters refused
to disperse.
Scuffles occurred when police officers tried to push protesters
to the entrance of the pedestrian İstiklal Street. The parents of
the injured teenager, Sami and Gulsum Elvan, who had read a written
statement, were trapped inside the crowd.
Officers were chasing demonstrators who have escaped into the side
streets. A protester has been injured and taken to hospital after
being hit by an "unidentified object" on the head, the report also
said. An officer was also reportedly firing rubber bullets from the
top of an armored police vehicle.
Police have not allowed demonstrations in Taksim Square, despite
having reopened Gezi Park in the second week of July.
The disorders in Turkey began when on May 28 2013 the plans of
replacing Taksim Gezi Park with a reconstruction of the historic Taksim
Military Barracks (demolished in 1940) with the possibility of housing
a shopping mall became known. The protests developed into riots when
a group occupying the park was attacked by police. The subjects of
the protests have since broadened beyond the development of Taksim
Gezi Park, developing into wider anti-government demonstrations. The
protests have also spread to other cities in Turkey, and protests have
been seen in other countries with significant Turkish communities. On
May 31 2013, police suppressed the protesters with tear gas, arrested
at least 60 people and injured hundreds. The police action received
wide attention online. 5 men died in the clashes between the police
and the protesters, more than 7,500 people were injured and about
5,000 of people were arrested. By the data provided by the Ministry of
Internal Affairs of Turkey, about 2,5 million people from 79 regions
took part in the anti-government demonstrations held in Turkey.
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From: Mihran Keheyian
Subject: Two Non-Combat Deaths In Two Days
Two Non-Combat Deaths In Two Days
The Ministry of Defense informed that on July 31 at 1:20 conscript
Manuchar Meruzhan Manucharyan injured himself deadly from the AKS-74
gun attached to him at the sentry post. This is preliminary
information, the MoD states.
The MoD investigative service has launched proceedings under Article
110 Para 1 of the criminal code on causing somebody to commit a
suicide.
Earlier on July 30 conscript Arman Hovsep Muradyan born in 1993
reportedly committed a suicide. The suicide is the preliminary version
offered by the Ministry of Defense.
11:10 01/08/2013
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/country/view/30597
From: A. Papazian