Lalrp.org:
Turkish riot police fired pepper spray to disperse a bunch of protesters pushing again towards a line of police on Wednesday as a rally to mark Worldwide Girls’s Day was winding down in central Istanbul.
Girls whistled and chanted, “We don’t maintain quiet, we aren’t scared, we don’t bow down,” as they pushed riot police shields, triggering the tussles with police, whereas the remainder of the gang of round 2,000 dispersed.
Police had prevented the gang from staging a march by way of the town heart after native authorities issued an announcement saying it could not enable marches, protests or press statements. Native metro stations had been closed from early within the afternoon.
“Authorities resign,” the gang chanted throughout the protest. “We’re indignant, we’re in mourning, we’re in feminist rebel,” mentioned a big banner held up on the entrance of the gang.
The occasion was being staged a bit over two months earlier than elections that are anticipated to symbolize President Tayyip Erdogan’s largest ever electoral problem. It was additionally simply over a month after devastating earthquakes in southern Turkey that killed greater than 52,000 individuals.
