Turkish Protest Grows to Rare Clash

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BY EMRE PEKER AND JOE PARKINSON
ISTANBUL—Turkish police repeatedly fired tear gas at thousands of protesters around Istanbul’s main square on Friday, as four days of increasingly heavy-handed attempts to shutter a small protest to save a downtown park evolved into a broader demonstration against the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The clashes marked Istanbul’s fiercest antigovernment protests for years, and sparked smaller copycat rallies in other cities across Turkey. As midnight approached in Istanbul, battalions of riot police continued to fire water cannon and tear gas at thousands who swarmed into the city’s landmark Taksim Square.
The day of increasingly angry confrontation between …
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