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sabertooth1217
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 Sat Jun 26, 2004 8:00 pm Clash ahead of Bush visit to Turkey |
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| Quote: | ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Turkish police fired tear gas as more than 100 left-wing demonstrators hurled rocks and used sticks to try and break down a police barricade during a protest Saturday ahead of U.S. President George W. Bush's arrival in the country.
The clash came amid intense security in anticipation of Bush's visit and the opening of a NATO summit in Istanbul on Monday.
Some 6,000 people, mostly members of trade unions and leftist groups, gathered in the center of Ankara, with some chanting "Murderer U.S.A. get out of the Middle East."
The area was completely closed off to traffic and surrounded by more than a dozen police armored personnel carriers.
Shortly after the protest began, about 150 people rushed a police barricade, hitting the blue iron barrier with sticks.
"We will go beyond barricades protecting Bush," the group shouted.
Police fired tear gas at the group from an armored personnel carrier.
A few minutes later the group, the "Socialist Platform of the Downtrodden," again attacked the barricade, throwing rocks at the police. The group is an umbrella organization representing several leftist labor unions in Turkey.
Police again responded with tear gas.
After the second clash, organizers of the main protest asked everyone to disperse and people began leaving the square.
Saturday, a small bomb attached to a banner protesting the summit and Bush's visit went off in downtown Istanbul, causing no injuries.
Two small bomb blasts overnight caused minor damage but no injuries in the southern city of Adana, and police defused a remote-controlled bomb placed under a car in the Black Sea port of Zonguldak, the Anatolia news agency said.
The bombings has been blamed on militant leftists, and Turkish police have detained scores of suspected members of radical groups.
Militant Kurdish, Islamic and leftist groups are active in the country, and security in Istanbul has been of special concern since November, when four suicide truck bombings blamed on al Qaeda killed more than 60 people.
More than 23,000 police officers will be on duty during the summit, which will be attended by NATO leaders including Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and French President Jacques Chirac.
Bush was to meet with Turkish leaders early Sunday before heading to Istanbul for the NATO summit. |
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sabertooth1217
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| Sat Jun 26, 2004 8:00 pm |
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Protesters set fire to an effigy of Bush in Ankara.
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Puck
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| Sat Jun 26, 2004 8:16 pm |
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Freaks. Suprised I didn't see Al Gore in that pic.
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Leo Wyatt
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| Sat Jun 26, 2004 9:48 pm |
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That was wrong to do that about our President. If we would have done that to Kerry people who are Democrats would be complaining too. I am no Democrat thank goodness.
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