Police crackdown on Great Peace March

2015-07-26 10:56:11

ANKARA (DİHA) - Police attacked the crowd attempting to hold a Peace March in the Turkish capital of Ankara yesterday, wounding many and arresting more than 35.

The Peace Bloc, a coalition of civil society and political organizations, called for a Peace March in the Turkish capital to protest the violence in Turkey. The crowd had gathered at Kolej intersection when police attacked.

Police attacked the crowd with pressurized water, rubber bullets and tear gas. Police chased students fleeing into the Cebeci university campus. Protestors decided to go ahead with the march's press announcement, but police attacked this gathering, as well. One citizen began vomiting blood, but police refused ambulance access to Yüksel Avenue. Many were wounded in the attacks.

Police violently arrested more than 35 people, including a newspaper employee who was selling books at the march and Mehmet Baytekin, a leader in TUHAD-FED (the support organization for the families of prisoners).

(cm/nt)