In Istanbul, Clashes Resume Between Police And Protesters
Update at 8:42 p.m. ET. Unrest May Continue All Night:
As Tuesday night wore into Wednesday morning, Turkish riot police were clashing with demonstrators in Istanbul's Taksim Square. Barrages of tear gas were fired into the square, where several fires burned on vehicles and other material. Some protesters were equipped with gas masks.
Speaking on television Tuesday, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said he will not bend to the protesters' demands. Here's a portion of that speech, from the BBC:
"If you call this roughness, I'm sorry, but this Tayyip Erdogan won't change."
"To those who... are at Taksim and elsewhere taking part in the demonstrations with sincere feelings: I call on you to leave those places and to end these incidents and I send you my love.
"But for those who want to continue with the incidents I say: 'It's over.'
"As of now we have no tolerance for them."
Early Wednesday, "a fresh wave of tear gas engulfed Gezi Park — where government officials have said protesters can stay — as a column of police broke through barricades on a side street nearby," CNN reports.
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