Angry Protests Grow in Turkey as Police Continue Crackdown | NYTimes.com

The NYT reports:

Violent protests against the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan engulfed this city on Saturday, as thousands of demonstrators took to the streets and alleyways in a second day of civil unrest and faced the tear gas and water cannons of a harsh police crackdown.

The police has now pulled out of Taksim Square and let protestors in. Prime Minister Erdoğan has admitted that the security forces made errors, especially with regard to their use of tear gas. Judging from the picture below, their errors do not exactly seem limited to the use of tear gas...

Picture courtesy of http://occupygezipics.tumblr.com/

Angry Protests Grow in Turkey as Police Continue Crackdown - NYTimes.com