in istanbul snowballed into a nationwide protest against turkey's prime minister. clashes have been reported in 67 of turkey's 81 provinces and in the capital ankara. ivan watson on the ground at the protests in istanbul for us. >> reporter: the unrest is far from over here in istanbul. thousands of people were about to get gassed now facing off against riot police over there. we've got to move because this is just too painful when it starts. let's go. >> what are you trying to do here tonight? >> the tear gas, we're trying to break through the police. we we're trying to break throug >> we are not forwarding. we're defending.