PEOPLE IN TURKEY PROTEST AGAINST TROOP DEPLOYMENT IN LEBANON
PanARMENIAN.Net
07.09.2006 14:25 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Some 15 thousand people throughout Turkey had taken
to the streets on Tuesday to protest against the government motion,
which allowed deployment of Turkish troops in Lebanon. Anti-war
activists protesting against the troop deployment in Lebanon clashed
with anti-riot police in Ankara on Wednesday as Turkish Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip Erdogan was receiving UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.
Some 300 leftist activists gathered at crossroads and closed the
traffic to march to the Prime Ministry on Wednesday afternoon. Police
set up a barricade and did not allow the protestors to march to the
Prime Minister’s House where PM Erdogan was receiving Annan.
Rejecting to end their protest, masked activists began to clash with
police who later used tear gas to disperse the protestors. Police
chased the activists down to the side streets and detained dozens
of them.
Some protestors threw stones to the Ankara office of the ruling
Justice and Development Party, headed by the country’s PM, reports
Cihan News Agency.