Gezi Park in Istanbul is blocked after riot police with brutal methods stripping it of activists on Saturday. But the demonstrations do not seem to be abating. Activists are then early on Sunday afternoon in the streets around the famous Taksim Square in Istanbul.
Football fans
Among the protesters are hundreds of supporters to Istanbul clubs Fenerbahce, Besiktas and Galatasaray. While trying riot police evict protesters by force, while tens of thousands of supporters of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan began to accumulate a mil away.
Turkey's EU Minister Egemen Bagis said on Sunday in a television interview that those who now arrives on Taksim Square in Istanbul will be seen as terrorists.
Impossible to get to the square
Devrim Mavi, executive editor of trade magazine Hotel Revue, is in place in Istanbul on Sunday and says that it's impossible to get in to Taksim Square. According to her, all traffic is shut to the square.
- It prevents in every way you can people to get here. You must pass a wall with riot police and water cannons and tear gas.
Instead, protesters gathered in various small groups near the square.
- The atmosphere is printed. Right now everyone is waiting, says Devrim Mavi.
According to her, the police counter-away protesters with water cannons and tear gas from one of the main streets in the city.
- There is little gas in the air. It's a bit scratchy and almost metallic taste in the mouth.
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