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During the elections but they have never taken this stance before but feel like the government has pushed the boundaries so far that now they have to just -- they have effectively been learning as that go along how to deal with tear gas. they set up a make-shift medical center inside to deal with wounded and casualties and have their own system to handle these different challenges they have never faced before, but of course, are putting up with on a regular basis. >> arwa, nick, thank you very much for the incredible reporting done all day and pretty dangerous still. stay safe. i'm sure we'll ...

The tear gas is not a new thing for istanbul. people that live in this neighborhood had tear gas every month. it was happening more and more frequently, and this park protest was the straw that broke the camel's back. what is incredible is the prime ministers rhetoric, these people that didn't care about the elections by insulting them and using terrorist in the same sentence. it scares these people. it makes them angry. >> right, freedom. this prompts the question given what has happened to the dictators why would erdogan want to put himself in that category and behaving in what appears to be...

They set up a make-shift medical center inside to deal with wounded and casualties and have their own system to handle these different challenges they have never faced before, but of course, are putting up with on a regular basis. >> arwa, nick, thank you very much for the incredible reporting done all day and pretty dangerous still. stay safe. i'm sure we'll be back to you as the evening continues to unfold and morning begins to break there in turkey. first of all, let's listen to what prime minister erdogan had to say about this. >> translator: heavy damage being done to the turkish economy....

>> translator: heavy damage being done to the turkish economy. i urge the young people to put an end to this protest and i call on those who insist on continuing this is over. we won't put up with this any longer. >> this reminds me of two and a half years ago,egypt, is it similar or different than what we're seeing in istanbul? >> it looks similar, but it's actually more -- they are closer to another set of seen scenes that you might remember. 1968 in the united states because what you're seeing here is a democratically elected government, one that's been elected three times with ever increas...

The police relatively sober in their response beginning see the heavy hand we seen earlier in the week. more stun grenades by the place and as we saw people gathering in a peaceful protest as working hours ended here in the thousands, something set that off. arwa seems to have seen some small altercation, that caused a massive amount of tear gas. people running, scattering for their safety and now we're again into the cycle of attack, fireworks at police, water cannon, tear gas fire back and move around gezi park itself, police trying to retake control and push protesters away. that's pretty s...