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Clashes go into the night in Turkey

2014-05-24 204 Dailymotion

ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />STORY: Hundreds of protesters threw stones and fireworks at police in several districts of Istanbul on Friday night after two people died in clashes in the working-class district of Okmeydani.<br/> <br />The clashes have stirred fears of further unrest as the anniversary of last year's anti-government demonstration approaches.<br/> <br />Police fired rubber pellets and smoke grenades to disperse protesters letting off fireworks in Okmeydani district as thousands flocked to the streets for the funeral of Ugur Kurt, a bystander Ugur Kurt who was attending a relative's funeral, was shot in the head apparently by a stray bullet on Thursday as the violence flared. His death in hospital overnight triggered renewed clashes in which a second person, as yet unidentified, was killed by a home-made grenade.<br/> <br />The violence in the neighborhood, which has seen periodic unrest since the 1990s, comes almost a year after protests in Istanbul triggered a summer of natio

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