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The hotel owners in especially istanbul and the rest of the place where these demonstrations are taking place. so this is actually out of environmental demonstrations. there are terror groups trying to turn this into a cause. they are really using the molotov cocktails and everything, i'm sure. your people are showing it. . we have to first, i think this morning, the governor of istanbul has by using the social media and the television stations told the people, not the people in the gezzy park that they can stay there.

He served about 11 years in power at the helm. after all the power that he brought to turkey, sidelining, very intrusive military, instituting democratic reforms, instituting reforms in the police system and, indeed, the judicial system. there are many turnings who believe he is way too authoritarian. he dismissed them as louts and riffraff. he said he wanted to address some of them. he's condemned what he calls people who have joined this movement and hijacked it. he says that they are trying to undermine turkey, trying to damage turkey's booming economy and trying to give turkey a bad name. ...

>> this has been a great issue of debate amongst many, many people. the turkish government has said over and over again that it is not an islamic government as you might find in iran. we can see that. we know that. that it has no plans to make turkey into an islamic republic in the way that you see in places like iran and elsewhere. certainly many in the west have been concerned as to whether turkey is more in the western camp or in the eastern camp these days. the united states, president obama, members of the european allies who have turkey as a nato ally and as a very strong, reliable ally ...

We want to go to andrew gardner who's with amnesty international. he has had a team of police or rather people monitoring the police there. we're going to go to him as soon as we can. let's go to nick paton walsh who's on taksim square for another check on what exactly the state is right now. >> reporter: christiane, you can't see us on camera in the dark but a small group of protesters are down the street below our bureau trying to use corrugated iron as a shield. some of them edging towards police, some it seems edging up on the side of gezi park. they're replying with another barrage of tea...

>> reporter: they've yet to find a singular leader. much of this is unfocused, popular anger. some of it at a decade old administration. democratically elected nonetheless. a lot of it fueled by police tactics. you've seen in the past rumbling. right now there are a couple of thousand people gathering. police the tear gas, it's dark. a lot of the barricades. people will be unfamiliar with the building site. they're standing around. there are two to three places