CNN has live footage of riot force attack on protesters in Taksim Square, Istanbul

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Demonstrators are getting pushed out street by street.

(Reuters) - Turkish riot police using tear gas and water cannon battled protesters for control of Istanbul's Taksim Square, hours after Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan demanded an immediate end to 10 days of demonstrations.
Istanbul Governor Huseyin Avni Mutlu appeared on television, declaring that police operations would continue day and night until the square, focus of demonstrations against Erdogan, was cleared.

Police fired volleys of tear gas canisters into a crowd of thousands - people in office clothes as well as youths in masks who had fought skirmishes throughout the day - scattering them into side streets and nearby hotels. Water cannon swept across the square targeting stone-throwers in masks.

The protesters, who accuse Erdogan of overreaching his authority after 10 years in power and three election victories, thronged the steep narrow lanes that lead down to the Bosphorus waterway. Many drifted gradually back into the square and lit bonfires, only to be scattered by more tear gas.

Governor Mutlu said 30 people had been wounded on Tuesday.

Erdogan had earlier called on protesters to stay out of Taksim, where a heavy-handed police crackdown on a rally against development of the small Gezi Park abutting the square triggered an unprecedented wave of protest.

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1. Prime Minister has called protestors "terrorists"

He says there is a conspiracy against Turkey

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2. Two or more peaceful protesters are dead from the attacks he's ordered, thousands injured,

and he had called for a meeting with the Gezi Park protesters, set for today. Instead, he sent the riot cops to clear them early yesterday.

He is the conspiracy and they are done with him. I know you know this.

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3. I didn't know that there are two dead

He sounds just crazy, over a mall being built!?!?

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4. That is much of the protesters' point: he's so in bed with his buddies, it's not about the people

of the country anymore. And yes, at least two protesters are dead within IIRC the first couple of days of riot police attacks.

Man shot dead during protest in Turkey
http://news.yahoo.com/man-shot-dead-during-protest-turkey-074925227.html

Turkish Protester Dead After Vehicle Slams Into Crowd
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/03/turkish-protester-dead_n_3377914.html

"The Turkish Doctors' Association said one protester died after a vehicle slammed into a crowd in Istanbul but the governor's office insisted the man's death was accidental. The doctors' group also said eight people hurt in Ankara were in critical condition."

There are multiple videos and images of police brutality in the Video and Multimedia and Occupy Underground sections...a mild example; warning, this is graphic and upsetting but shows what the government are up to:

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