(ROUGH CUT ONLY - NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />Anti-government protesters in Turkish capital threw stones at buses and set fire to debris on streets in the city centre early on Sunday (June 2) as demonstrations continued.<br/> <br />Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has called for an end to the fiercest anti-government demonstrations in years as authorities arrested almost a thousand people in protests across the country.<br/> <br />Riot police backed by armoured vehicles and helicopters fired tear gas and water cannon in Ankara for a second day.<br/> <br />The unrest was triggered by government plans for a replica Ottoman-era barracks with shops or apartments in Istanbul's Taksim Square, but has widened into a broader show of defiance against Erdogan and his Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP).<br/> <br />Protesters have called on the prime minister to resign.