Protesters clashed with police in cities across Turkey on Tuesday evening. The protesters were angry after the death of 15-year-old Berkin Elvan who got caught up in street battles between police and protesters while going to buy bread for his family last summer.<br /><br />He was hit on the head by a tear gas canister suspected to have been fired by police. Berkin later slipped into a coma and died on Tuesday.<br /><br />It is another pre-election headache for Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, already battling a corruption scandal which has become one of the biggest challenges of his decade in power.<br /><br />Police fired water cannon and tear gas at thousands of demonstrators.<br /><br />Crowds chanted “government of Erdogan, government of corruption, resign resign” and “murderer Erdogan”.<br /><br />Earlier police broke up a crowd of more than two thousand students who blocked a highway to protest against Elvan’s death.
