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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 successful to the far side and the near side of where i am we still have this popular protest down along the road that heads down to the left of gezi park. police have ...

Middle class people expressing their anger, some demanding resignation of apology for excessive police force. we saw over the past week or so an ebbing of this police violence and where i was, a little bit more of that here as well but there were signs from the prime minister he wouldn't tolerate as what he referred to as a legal protest for much longer. so today, early morning at about 8:00 we saw the police moving in slowly into this central area here and then the clashes began. protesters are small, hard core here prepareed to meet with rocks, fire bomb cocktails and a firework launcher i s...

Environmental protest of a small park not far from where you are now and evolve into a much bigger deal. tell me why that is. >> certainly this began trying to reserve this green in the very heart of istanbul, that and met with a pretty hard police response to that protest and what we've seen over the past 12 days is a response to people, the police tactics, the heavy hand they are using to come into the streets and this cause this protest to mull tip play and people to join them. what they see is the ed war administration, the creeping conserve 'tis m they have serve -- would like to see more...

Development programs without bothering to talk to local business owners in the city. there were a raft of complaints that people had and -- and that left little room for descent and 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 ...

Conservatism they have seen -- would like to see more prevalence of society. some feel are being imposed upon them. so in the crowds we've seen across the country secular, middle class people expressing their anger, some demanding resignation of apology for excessive police force. we saw over the past week or so an ebbing of this police violence and where i was, a little bit more of that here as well but there were signs from the prime minister he wouldn't tolerate as what he referred to as a legal protest for much longer. so today, early morning at about 8:00 we saw the police moving in slowl...