Protesters lit fires and scuffled with police in parts of Istanbul and Ankara early on Sunday, but the streets were generally quieter after two days of Turkey's fiercest anti-government demonstrations for years.<br/> <br />Riot police fired tear gas and pepper spray to hold back groups of stone-throwing youths near Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's office in Istanbul and hundreds of protesters set fires in the Tunali district of the capital Ankara.<br/> <br />Istanbul's central Taksim Square, where the protests have been focused, was quieter after riot police pulled back their armoured trucks late on Saturday.<br/> <br />The unrest was triggered by protests against government plans to build a replica Ottoman-era barracks to house shops or apartments in Taksim, long a venue for political protest.<br/> <br />But it has widened into a broader show of defiance against Erdogan and his Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP).
