A 'modest fashion week' opened in Turkey on Friday with a splash of colors and a flurry of fabrics in an event that drew designers and models of conservative wear from around the world.

The two-day event kicked off with models hitting the catwalk at a historic railway station in Istanbul.

The event, featuring the work of 70 designers, is being hosted by Modanisa, a leading online retailer of Muslim fashion.

For decades Turkey has been a bastion of what's been described as militant secularism, and until 2013 there was a ban on wearing headscarves in public buildings.

But President Erdogan and his Islamist-leaning government are moving the country in a more conservative direction, and that's led to protests by secularists.

Modanisa CEO Kerim Ture said Turkish women who wear the hijab are becoming more active in society, and needed clothing choices that combine faith with style.

Franka Soeria, the Turkey representative of the Islamic Fashion and Design Council, said the country needed to relax the barriers between religious and secular people.

Soeria, who wears the hijab, said secular friends have discouraged her from going to certain neighbourhoods because her attire is too modest.

Gender expert Mary Lou O'Neil said the struggle partly stems from the growing visibility of religiously conservative women in public spaces - and the fear of secular women that this will evolve into restrictions on their dress and conduct.

A 'modest fashion week' opened in Turkey on Friday with a splash of colors and a flurry of fabrics in an event that drew designers and models of conservative wear from around the world.

The two-day event kicked off with models hitting the catwalk at a historic railway station in Istanbul.

The event, featuring the work of 70 designers, is being hosted by Modanisa, a leading online retailer of Muslim fashion.

For decades Turkey has been a bastion of what's been described as militant secularism, and until 2013 there was a ban on wearing headscarves in public buildings.

But President Erdogan and his Islamist-leaning government are moving the country in a more conservative direction, and that's led to protests by secularists.

Modanisa CEO Kerim Ture said Turkish women who wear the hijab are becoming more active in society, and needed clothing choices that combine faith with style.

Franka Soeria, the Turkey representative of the Islamic Fashion and Design Council, said the country needed to relax the barriers between religious and secular people.

Soeria, who wears the hijab, said secular friends have discouraged her from going to certain neighbourhoods because her attire is too modest.

Gender expert Mary Lou O'Neil said the struggle partly stems from the growing visibility of religiously conservative women in public spaces - and the fear of secular women that this will evolve into restrictions on their dress and conduct.

Istanbul, 13 May 2016

1. Various of models on catwalk showing 'modest fashion' clothing

2. Audience watching models

3. Various of models on catwalk

Istanbul, 9 May 2016

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Kerim Ture, Modanisa 'modest fashion' retailer:

"In Turkey, 65 percent of the women (are) wearing hijab. But when you look to the outlets, how many brands do we have, there are not many. That was the first thing. The second thing is people are, after Internet, they are interacting with each other and they want to see different styles. They want to combine style and faith together."

5. Various of models posing during Modanisa photo shoot

6. Wide of models in room with photo shoot is taking place

7 . SOUNDBITE (English) Kerim Ture, Modanisa 'modest fashion' retailer:

"What we see is, women are getting much more active roles in the society today, if you compare it with five years ago. And what we see is hijabi women with modest clothing, taking place in the society, (taking) the place that they deserve in the society."

8. Various of models putting on make-up for Modanisa photo shoot

9. SOUNDBITE (English) Franka Soeria, Islamic Fashion and Design Council:

"When I come to Turkey they say 'Franka, you don't go to this area because modest fashion people (are) not going there'. It's a secular person (that) told me. And I say, 'Why? I mean, it's just a hijab. I'm still the same person. I'm still stylish. I'm still enjoying my life.' People are different. Maybe we need to stop making category like that because people are different. Hijab is just covering. It's same like you wear a bikini, I wear my hijab."

Istanbul, 27 April 2016

10. Wide of pro-secularism demonstration with banner reading "Secularism Is Turkey"

11. Demonstrators chanting

12 Close up of demonstrator chanting "Turkey is secular and will remain secular"

13. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Baris Yarkadas, demonstrator:

"We see secularism as a fundamental guarantee for believers to be able to practice their beliefs; and for non-believers to be free to not believe."

Istanbul, 11 May 2016

14. Two women, one with hijab and the other without, walk together along street

15. Various of people walking along street

16. SOUNDBITE (English) Marie Lou O'Neil, expert in gender studies:

"I think the struggle now, at least the big part of the struggle now, is as more and more religiously conservative women especially move into more and more public spaces. And of course in Turkey historically that public space has been defined as something that should be devoid of religion. That it's a very militantly secular space. And I think that's in part the nature of the difficulty, the struggle is the more public visibility of religion. And because it's so visible upon the very bodies of conservative woman, it gets focused there a lot."

Istanbul, 12 May 2016

17. Mosque beside Bosporus bridge

18. Woman in conservative clothing modeling on steps of mosque

19. Wide of mosque with cafe in front and Bosporus bridge in background

Tuesday's car bomb attack targeting a bus carrying riot police in Istanbul killed 11 people and wounded 36 others, according to the city's governor.

Speaking at the scene of the blast in the district of Beyazit, Istanbul Governor Vasip Sahin said the dead included seven police officers and four civilians.

At least three of the wounded were in serious condition.

Tuesday's car bomb attack targeting a bus carrying riot police in Istanbul killed 11 people and wounded 36 others, according to the city's governor.

Speaking at the scene of the blast in the district of Beyazit, Istanbul Governor Vasip Sahin said the dead included seven police officers and four civilians.

At least three of the wounded were in serious condition.

Istanbul- 7 June 2016

1. Wide ambulances at the scene

2. Police at the scene

3. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Vasip Sahin, Istanbul's governor:

"Today, at around 0840 (local time, 0640 GMT), a car bomb targeted a vehicle carrying riot police in the Vezneciler district. As a result, seven police and four of our citizens lost their lives. May they rest in peace. Thirty-six people were wounded."

4. Policemen and police vehicles

5. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Vasip Sahin, Istanbul's governor:

"There are no injured left at the scene. They were all taken to the hospital as soon as it happened. Our chief prosecutor, along with a team, is continuing a judicial review."

6. Various of scene, police and ambulances

Dozens of protesters gathered on Wednesday in Istanbul to denounce US President Donald Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

The small group of about 50 protesters gathered near the venue hosting the 57-member Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).

Leaders and top officials of the world's Islamic nations are meeting in Istanbul to try and forge a united stance against Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

The protesters, who responded to a call by the Turkish NGO Humanitarian Relief Foundation, or IHH, chanted anti-US slogans and wore masks with the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Jerusalem's status is at the core of the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Trump's Dec. 6 announcement was widely perceived as siding with Israel.

It also raised fears of more bloodshed.

Istanbul - 13 December 2017

1. Protesters wearing masks with Al-Aqsa mosque printed on them, holding signs with flags of predominantly Muslim countries, chanting (Turkish): "War and jihad, martyrdom"

2. Close of protester wearing mask with Al-Aqsa mosque print chanting (Turkish): "Killer US get out of Palestine"

3. Protesters chanting (Turkish): "Muslims protect Jerusalem"

4. Protesters chanting (Turkish): "No to Europe, yes to Muslim unity"

5. Wide of Semsettin Ozdemir, Turkey's Jerusalem Platform's Istanbul President, addressing media

6. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Semsettin Ozdemir, President of Jerusalem Platform Istanbul:

"We strongly condemn the decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Zionist Israel, in the name of our nation and in the name of humanity. This summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation should clearly deny this decision."

7. Various of protesters wearing masks with Al-Aqsa mosque print

8. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Semsettin Ozdemir, President of Jerusalem Platform Istanbul:

"The status of Jerusalem has been the most important place for Muslims. We had a voice there during centuries. Israel cannot have benefits from arbitrary treatments and great powers."

9. Protesters

10. Close of sign with Turkish flag

11. Various of protest

STORYLINE:

Hundreds of people demonstrated on Sunday (11th December) against Saturday's bombings outside Istanbul's Besiktas Stadium, while Turkish football fans later showed their support for the victims by turning out to watch cross-city rivals Galatasary at the Turk Telekom Arena in the city.

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A day after twin bombings killed 38 people near a football stadium in Istanbul, Turkish soccer fans again showed up in droves to watch "the beautiful game" on Sunday.

The twin car-and-suicide bombings Saturday night near the Besiktas stadium also wounded 155 people and enraged top officials, including President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who vowed to hunt down the perpetrators.

Sunday night's game pitted Istanbul's Galatasaray - a rival of Besiktas - and Gaziantepspor at a different stadium in Istanbul - the Turk Telekom Arena.

Fans vowed to not let Saturday night's events prevent them from watching their team play - and Galatasaray lifted the spirits of the local fans with a 3-1 victory.

Earlier in the day, hundreds of flag-carrying demonstrators had marched along Istanbul's coastline towards the Besiktas stadium.

In a show of solidarity with the victims of Saturday's attacks, many laid flowers outside the stadium to pay tribute to the dead.

Turkey has declared a national day of mourning and launched a full investigation into the attacks, which have been claimed by a Turkey-based Kurdish militant group.

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The blackout includes: "moment of blast; aftermath of the blast and site of explosion; public servants conducting their jobs; injured and dead… exaggerated analysis…analysis and anything related to the people suspected of involvement with the attack, their methods of transport and whereabouts".

This affects ALL coverage distributed inside Turkey.

Clients are advised to seek their own legal advice if they intend to transmit material already supplied by the AP and ongoing news coverage of this specific attack and its aftermath back into Turkey.

Istanbul, Turkey. 11th December, 2016.

1. 00:00 Police searching fans entering perimeter of Turk Telekom Arena.

2. 00:05 Fans passing through turnstile.

3. 00:21 Police riot truck parked outside stadium.

4. 00:31 SOUNDBITE: (Turkish) Nuri Yilmaz, Galatasaray fan:

"Last night's incident deeply affected us, just like the rest of the Turkish people. Such incidents are sorrowful ones, ones that we do not want to happen. Of course our security forces need to take necessary measures. We just wanted to come here and be with our team today, despite everything. That's why we are here at the stadium now. I hope we win and at least make Galatasaray fans - who were so saddened by last night's events - happy."

5. 01:06 Police walking outside stadium.

6. 01:11 SOUNDBITE: (Turkish) Erkan Duman, Galatasaray fan:

"What happened last night was extremely saddening. But they (bombers) need to know that Turkish people will not yield to such things. I do not even say this as a Galatasaray fan, but as a member of the Turkish nation. It's not like we will give up things, especially the things we love, just because they want us to."

7. 01:29 Exterior of Galatasaray stadium.

8. 01:39 Various of people walking towards the Besiktas stadium.

9. 01:49 People laying flowers in tribute to victims.

10. 02:03 SOUNDBITE: (Turkish) Meral Han, local resident:

"This country has become the country of death. These attacks were against not only our country, our youth, our policemen, but against all humanity. I condemn terror, and I want the authorities to stop these happenings, because really, this pain, it burns within people. I am sad, and also very tired. Experiencing these kind of things and to talk about them, express them, is so hard."

11. 02:34 Red carnations on the ground and a piece of paper with a drawing of gallows and text reading (Turkish) "We should not be feeding them".

12. 02:38 SOUNDBITE: (Turkish) Turgay Akin, local resident:

"We were unified. What has happened in the last 30 years? In the last 30 years something has been going on in this country. Administrators, prime ministers, presidents of our country cannot govern properly. If they wanted to govern (properly) there would be no racism, factionalism, or sectarianism."

13. 03:02 People gathered near blast area.

14. 03:06 People walking down the street under big Turkish flags.

SOURCE: SNTV.

DURATION: 03:11.

Hundreds of people protested on Friday in Istanbul against the recent offensive on eastern Aleppo.

Protesters - supporters of several Turkish and Syrian nongovernmental organisations - prayed in Istanbul's Fatih mosque, followed by a street protest in which protesters chanted "Killer Russia, get out of Syria."

The United Nations envoy for Syria on Thursday said the combined Syrian government and Russian bombardment of the city's rebel-held east has killed 376 people over the last two weeks.

Istanbul - 07 October 2016

1. Various of people praying in Fatih mosque in Istanbul

2. Wide of protesters shouting (Turkish) "Thousands of salutations to the resistance, from Istanbul to Aleppo!"

3. Mid of people holding posters showing photos of Russian President Vladimir Putin, US President Barack Obama and other world leaders chanting (Turkish) "Killer Russia, get out of Syria!"

4. Wide of protesters holding banners reading (Turkish) "Stop the massacre, open a road to Aleppo" and chanting (Arabic) "God is great, God, in the name of God, God is great"

5. Close of a poster showing Putin sitting on the shoulders of Obama

6. Mid protesters holding posters and Syrian flag

7. Close of poster reading (Turkish) "Stand up for Aleppo"

8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Usame Er-Rifai, Damascus Muslim Intellectuals Association President:

"My brothers, today, the United States, Russia, Europe, Iran and all others, all together are attacking to enslave the Muslim people and put them under control. But we will never buckle under. We will never surrender."

9. Mid of protesters holding posters reading (Turkish) "Stop the massacre, open a road to Aleppo"

10. Syrian flag

11. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Bulent Yildirim, Humanitarian Relief Organization President:

"Now, aid is not being delivered to Aleppo. Now, aid is not being delivered to many regions in Syria. The world is silent on this."

12. Various of protesters holding banners

Turkish police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse demonstrators who gathered on Sunday for a gay pride rally in Istanbul despite a government ban.

Dozens of participants advocating transgender rights assembled off Istiklal Street, a major commercial artery, some brandishing rainbow flags.

Police called on them to disperse and prevented activists from marching or making statements. A couple of individuals were detained.

More than 300 policemen in anti-riot gear and backed by water cannons were deployed along the pedestrian thoroughfare and on side streets.

Istanbul's governor had banned gay, lesbian and transgender individuals from holding two annual parades this year, both Sunday's seventh Trans Pride March and a broader LGBT pride parade on June 26.

His office cited security concerns as the basis for the ban.

Turkish police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse demonstrators who gathered on Sunday for a gay pride rally in Istanbul despite a government ban.

Dozens of participants advocating transgender rights assembled off Istiklal Street, a major commercial artery, some brandishing rainbow flags.

Police called on them to disperse and prevented activists from marching or making statements. A couple of individuals were detained.

More than 300 policemen in anti-riot gear and backed by water cannons were deployed along the pedestrian thoroughfare and on side streets.

Istanbul's governor had banned gay, lesbian and transgender individuals from holding two annual parades this year, both Sunday's seventh Trans Pride March and a broader LGBT pride parade on June 26.

His office cited security concerns as the basis for the ban.

Istanbul - 19 June 2016

1. Turkish police tearing LGBT banner reading (Turkish): "7th Pride - Peace and Resistance "

2. Police dispersing activists who gathered on street for gay pride rally, after tear gas was fired

3. Various of activists holding LGBT banners, showing solidarity with Orlando shooting victims, reading (Turkish): "Justice for Orlando, justice for everybody!" and "Justice for Orlando, justice for Suruc!"

4. Riot police

5. Activist carrying rainbow flag running through street

6. Activists leaving scene after another tear gas canister was fired

7. Various of riot police on street

8. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Ekopera, Last name not given, gay pride participant:

"I am here to protest, to show my existence in a Turkey where concepts of equality, rights, freedom and justice are now not quite there. Istanbul's Gay Pride has been turned into a resistance movement since two years ago to the point we named it Resistance Pride. We want to show the state that we are here."

9. Riot police blocking entrance to street

10. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Ekopera, Last name not given, gay pride participant:

"The cause of all this is an absolutist democracy in Turkey. To sum Turkey's democracy up, it is a democracy of the majority, rather than a pluralist one. Thus we have a government backed by the majority, that only cares about the sensitivities (issues) of the majority."

11. Activists holding large rainbow flag

12. Activists walking past

13. Riot police

14. Anti-LGBT Protester waving rainbow flag, wanting to burn it

15. Police taking away protester, rainbow flag on ground

Turkish police on Sunday prevented a small group of May Day demonstrators from reaching Istanbul's iconic Taksim Square.

Security forces detained most members of the group in an effort to prevent their march.

Scuffles broke out when demonstrators resisted and one police officer was seen spraying tear gas.

The square is symbolic as the centre of protests in which 34 people were killed in 1977.

The government designated another area in Istanbul as the authorised gathering space for those observing International Workers' Day.

Turkish police on Sunday prevented a small group of May Day demonstrators from reaching Istanbul's iconic Taksim Square.

Security forces detained most members of the group in an effort to prevent their march.

Scuffles broke out when demonstrators resisted and one police officer was seen spraying tear gas.

The square is symbolic as the centre of protests in which 34 people were killed in 1977.

The government designated another area in Istanbul as the authorised gathering space for those observing International Workers' Day.

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Istanbul - 1 May 2016

1. Various of scuffles breaking out between protesters and police officers, some protesters being pushed (and later detained)

2. Police officer spraying tear gas, protesters being detained

3. Various of protesters being detained

4. Various of protesters being taken to police vehicle

5. Protester being taken to police vehicle, chanting (Turkish) "Long live May 1"

6. Various of police vehicle with detained protesters inside, driving away

7 . Protesters marching and holding banner reading (Turkish) "People's Liberation Party", UPSOUND (Turkish): "USA get out of the Middle East"

8. Protesters chanting, UPSOUND (Turkish): "Murderer USA, get out of the Middle East"

9. Demonstrators marching

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1. Pan of burnt-out buses across road

2. Various of damaged van

3. Smashed-up car

4. Rubble on ground

5. Smouldering debris

6. Flag and rubble in foreground of Taksim Square

7. Man picking up pieces of rubble

8. Stencil of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan crossed out on wall

9. Various of clean-up operation around Taksim Square

10. Various of debris in streets around Taksim Square

11. Wide of Galata Bridge

12. Pan from water to fisherman

13. Tilt up of municipal workers clearing up debris

14. Wide of newspaper stand

15. Hurriyet newspaper headline reading: (Turkish) "Five Days in Taksim"

16. Haber Turk newspaper headline reading: (Turkish) "Prime Minister spoke and Taksim opened"

17. Tilt up from Sabah newspaper headline reading: (Turkish): "Gas stopped and fog dispersed", to Posta newspaper headline reading: (Turkish) "Gezi Park is now given to public"

18. Man looking through newspapers

19. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Bura Albair, Student:

"Today is a bad day because some groups have been very violent. I hope the police come back tomorrow because it is very unsafe here."

20. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Melis Yilmaz, Student:

"We have been here for two days. Police are attacking with tear gas. We went to Gezi Park."

21. Mid of newspaper headline

STORYLINE:

The clean-up around Istanbul's landmark Taksim Square began early on Sunday morning following a night of clashes between Turkish police and protesters.

Thousands took to the streets in Istanbul and the capital, Ankara, on Friday and Saturday in a flare-up of anger among urban and secular Turks after police violently broke up an anti-development sit-in in the square.

Protests soon spread to dozens of other cities, as demonstrators denounced what they see as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's increasingly authoritarian style.

On Sunday, however, calm appeared to have returned to both Istanbul and Ankara.

According to the private Dogan news agency, a few hundred protesters remain at Taksim - Istanbul's main square, and the scene of the largest and fiercest anti-government outburst in Turkey in years.

The group lit a bonfire and chanted anti-government slogans in an all-night vigil, but shrank as rain set in.

Meanwhile, the clean-up in and around the square began, with municipal workers sweeping up debris and hosing down littered pavements.

Several burnt-out and smashed vehicles remained, as well as two buses which blocked a nearby road.

One Istanbul resident said it was a "bad day", because protesters had been "very violent".

"I hope the police come back tomorrow because it is very unsafe here," said 22-year old Bura Albair.

Meanwhile, Turkey awoke to newspaper headlines about the protests, which broke out just days after Istanbul pitched its bid to host the 2020 Olympic games to sports and Olympic officials at a conference in St Petersburg.

It was also seen as a demonstration of the anger building towards Turkish police, who have been accused of using inordinate force to quash demonstrations and of using tear gas excessively.

In another gesture to placate protesters, Erdogan said that police may have used tear gas excessively.

The government said about a thousand people were detained during the protests. Hundreds were injured in the clashes.

Tens of thousands of supporters of a pro-Kurdish party gathered on Sunday in Istanbul to celebrate the Kurdish New Year and to attend a campaign rally for local elections that will test the Turkish president's popularity.

The Peoples' Democratic Party, or HDP, held the event amid the municipal office races that have become polarizing and a government crackdown on its members for alleged links to outlawed Kurdish militants.

Party lawmakers, including former chairman Selahattin Demirtas, and mayors have been jailed.

Supporters at the rally waved HDP flags and chanted slogans for Demirtas and the imprisoned leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, , Abdullah Ocalan.

Pervin Buldan, co-leader of the Kurdish party, told supporters in Istanbul on Sunday that the HDP had become a key party in Turkey.

Security at the event was heavy and police controlled the rally entrance, but the atmosphere was celebratory.

The Newroz fire, which symbolises purification and the arrival of spring, was burning in Istanbul, following days of celebrations in southeastern Turkey.

The party has fielded candidates for the March 31 votes in Turkey's predominantly Kurdish southeast but is sitting out critical races in Turkey's major cities, including Istanbul and Ankara.

The strategy aims to deliver HDP votes to Turkey's main secular opposition party, the Republican People's Party (CHP), and its alliance with a small nationalist party so the opposition can better challenge President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP.

Millions of ethnic Kurds will vote in the elections.

Erdogan, who is also campaigning for Kurdish votes, plans to hold a massive election rally near HDP's on Sunday.

In the southeast, the party aims to win back control of municipalities that were seized by the government during a state of emergency declared after the 2016 failed coup.

The government accuses HDP politicians of links to PKK, and Erdogan regularly brands them terrorists and traitors.

The HDP does not deny such links but says it only advocates for Kurdish rights and democracy through legal, political means.

The PKK, considered a terror group by Turkey and its Western allies, has waged an insurgency since 1984 and the conflict has claimed tens of thousands of lives.

Istanbul - 24 March 2019

1. People jumping over fire symbolising Kurdish New Year, others holding pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) flags and flag depicting Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)

2. Close-up of fire

3. Wide of people jumping over fire

4. Tilt up from drummer to people dancing

5. Various of people dancing

6. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Ozlem Kaya, Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) supporter:

"Today is Newroz, which for us means peace, freedom, the fellowship of people, we accept everything and that's why we choose HDP."

7. Various of Pervin Buldan, co-chair of HDP, waving from stage

8. Mid of supporters

9. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Pervin Buldan, co-chair of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP):

"Today we are a key party in Turkey and today we are a party that will determine the fate of elections in Istanbul. That's why you know very well who to vote for. I'm not giving you a name, I'm not telling you a party name, I'm saying the unity of democratic powers."

10. Various of supporters waving HDP flags and Ocalan flags

11. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Ridvan Tekin, Republican People's Party (CHP) supporter:

"I am an active worker of the HDP. I will give my vote in this election to CHP (main opposition Republican People's Party). It's not because I love the CHP but because this regime needs to change now. I will vote for CHP so that this country becomes beautiful. The AKP (ruling Justice and Development Party) needs to change now."

12. Wide of banner reading (Turkish) "Resisting is to live. We will win with the joint struggle of the people."

13. Various of supporters

14. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Ozcan Cetin, Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) supporter:

"People no longer take a step back because of government-appointed trustees (replacing elected officials in southeastern Turkey) or prisons. I want you to hear this. As a Kurd, I am part of the HDP."

15. Various of supporters

16. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Turan Oztopcu, Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) supporter:

"HDP is the only party that wants peace in this country. That's why we want to vote for HDP because it defends democracy, it defends human rights. That is why we want to vote for HDP."

17. Wide of supporters forming a human tower

18. Mid of supporters

19. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Mehmet Birgul, Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) supporter:

"My vote is for the HDP because HDP is honor, peace, fraternity, long live HDP, long live freedom."

20. Wide of police watching crowd dispersing rally

21. Various of police detaining a person

22. Mid of chief of police shouting (Turkish) "Don't force our patience. Don't chant slogans."

23. Wide of police and supporters

24. Mid of police dogs

25. Wide of police and water cannons

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Turkish police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse demonstrators who gathered Sunday for a gay pride rally in Istanbul despite a government ban.

Dozens of participants advocating transgender rights assembled off Istiklal Street, a major commercial artery, some brandishing rainbow flags.

Police called on them to disperse and prevented activists from marching or making statements. A couple of individuals were detained.

More than 300 policemen in anti-riot gear and backed by water cannons were deployed along the pedestrian thoroughfare and on side streets.

Istanbul's governor had banned gay, lesbian and transgender individuals from holding two annual parades this year, both Sunday's seventh Trans Pride March and a broader LGBT pride parade on June 26.

His office cited security concerns as the basis for the ban.

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Turkish police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse demonstrators who gathered Sunday for a gay pride rally in Istanbul despite a government ban.

Dozens of participants advocating transgender rights assembled off Istiklal Street, a major commercial artery, some brandishing rainbow flags.

Police called on them to disperse and prevented activists from marching or making statements. A couple of individuals were detained.

More than 300 policemen in anti-riot gear and backed by water cannons were deployed along the pedestrian thoroughfare and on side streets.

Istanbul's governor had banned gay, lesbian and transgender individuals from holding two annual parades this year, both Sunday's seventh Trans Pride March and a broader LGBT pride parade on June 26.

His office cited security concerns as the basis for the ban.

Istanbul - 19 June 2016

1. Turkish police tearing LGBT banner reading (Turkish): "7th Pride - Peace and Resistance "

2. Police dispersing activists who gathered on street for gay pride rally, after tear gas was fired

3. Various of activists holding LGBT banners, showing solidarity with Orlando shooting victims, reading (Turkish): "Justice for Orlando, justice for everybody!" and "Justice for Orlando, justice for Suruc!"

4. Riot police

5. Activist carrying rainbow flag running through street

6. Activists leaving scene after another tear gas canister was fired

7. Various of riot police on street

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Thousands of demonstrators from Turkey's biggest labor unions and political parties rallied on Sunday in Istanbul to mark International Workers' Day, or Labor Day.

Members of Turkey's pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP), People's Republican Party's (CHP), Communist Party and other parties gathered in an area authorized by the government to hold the rally.

Among the participants were also members of DISK (Confederation of Turkey's Trade Unions of Turkey), TMMOB (Unions of Chambers of Turkey's Engineers and Architects), KESK (Confederation of Public Employees Syndicates) and TTB (Turkish Medical Association).

Gatherings in other areas of Istanbul, such as Taksim Square, the centre of protests in which 34 people were killed in 1977, were not allowed by Turkish authorities.

Turkish police earlier on Sunday used tear gas and water cannons to disperse dozens of May Day demonstrators attempting to reach the iconic square in the city's different areas.

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Thousands of demonstrators from Turkey's biggest labor unions and political parties rallied on Sunday in Istanbul to mark International Workers' Day, or Labor Day.

Members of Turkey's pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP), People's Republican Party's (CHP), Communist Party and other parties gathered in an area authorized by the government to hold the rally.

Among the participants were also members of DISK (Confederation of Turkey's Trade Unions of Turkey), TMMOB (Unions of Chambers of Turkey's Engineers and Architects), KESK (Confederation of Public Employees Syndicates) and TTB (Turkish Medical Association).

Gatherings in other areas of Istanbul, such as Taksim Square, the centre of protests in which 34 people were killed in 1977, were not allowed by Turkish authorities.

Turkish police earlier on Sunday used tear gas and water cannons to disperse dozens of May Day demonstrators attempting to reach the iconic square in the city's different areas.

Istanbul - 1 May 2016

1. Turkey's Communist Party members rallying with large banner

2. Turkey's Communist Party members holding a banner reading (Turkish) "No to Sharia, fascism and darkness"

3. Demonstrators chanting slogans

4. Various of International Workers' Day, or Labor Day, rally

5. Banner held up with pictures of (screen-left to right) Vladimir Lenin, Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx

6. Various of rally

7 . Two demonstrators walking and wearing tops reading (Turkish) "Peoples have rights"

8. Various of rally

9. Demonstrator, holding a banner

10. Various of demonstrators holding a moment of silence for people who were killed while fighting for their rights

11. Various of people dancing

12. Various of demonstrators leaving the square and chanting slogans

13. Demonstrators chanting, UPSOUND (Turkish): "Thief, killer Erdogan"

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1. Wide of protesters chanting

2. Mid of protesters with Egyptian flags

3. Close of women protesters chanting UPSOUND (Arabic) "God is great"

4. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Suveyda Zeynep Gunes, Istanbul resident:

"I am here for all of my brothers who are oppressed. Not only Egypt, but also Syria, East Timor, Middle East and Africa, in short."

5. Close of protesters holding signs

6. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Zeki Tastinar, Istanbul resident:

"We are here to tear down the straightjacket they have put on the Muslim world for 100 years. When there is a government defending the interests of their people, Europeans shut their eyes to these governments being overthrown. We are here because we're against it."

7. Close of banner reading (English): "Blind UN (United Nations), muppet Ban Ki-moon (Secretary-General of the United Nations)"

8. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Nevus Karakus, Istanbul resident:

"The whole world stands up for a seal or a whale, but they are silent while thousands of people are being killed there (in Egypt). AKP (Turkey's Justice and Development) government only condemns it. I am tired of their condemnations. Don't condemn it, do something. The world has turned into a blood bath.

9. Close of protesters chanting UPSOUND (Turkish) "We will win by resisting"

10. Close of protesters chanting UPSOUND (Turkish) "Islamic movement can not be prevented"

11. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Osman Atalay, Spokesman for the Turkish IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation:

"The resignation of Mohamed ElBaradei shows that the pro-coup people have lost control and difficult days are ahead. Because they thought they would disperse (the crowd) in Rabaah al-Adawiya and Nahda squares. Unfortunately people from other cities in Egypt have started to support (Mohammed) Morsi."

12. Close of police officers

13. Wide of protesters chanting (Turkish) "Get out (General Abdel-Fatah) el-Sissi, we are with you (Mohammed) Morsi"

14. Wide of protesters chanting (Turkish) "Don't be sad, be happy, God is with us"

STORYLINE

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered for the second time in Istanbul on Wednesday in a show of support for Egypt's deposed president Mohammed Morsi.

The demonstration came hours after Egyptian riot police - enforced by armoured vehicles and bulldozers cleared two sprawling encampments in Cairo of supporters of the country's ousted Islamist president.

At least 235 civilians were killed in the clashes nationwide, raising the total death toll to 278, Egyptian Health Ministry said.

"Get out (General Abdel-Fatah) el-Sissi, we are with you (Mohammed) Morsi," chanted the crowd in light of the mass clashes across Egypt.

Vice President Mohamed ElBaradei, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and pro-reform leader in the interim government, resigned in protest over the crackdown.

"The resignation of Mohamed ElBaradei shows that the pro-coup people have lost control and difficult days are ahead," said Osman Atalay, Spokesman for the Turkish IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation.

One protester lamented the "straightjacket they have put on the Muslim world for 100 years," while another vocalised her support for "my brothers who are oppressed. Not only Egypt, but also Syria, East Timor, Middle East and Africa, in short."

Earlier, Turkish President Abdullah Gul warned that Egypt could descend into chaos on Wednesday following clashes between Morsi supporters and police in districts across the capital Cairo.

Gul compared the clashes to the crackdown in Syria that precipitated a civil war.

His comments came hours after police attempted to clear two pro-Morsi sit-in camps early on Wednesday morning.

Wednesday's assault came after days of warnings by the interim administration that replaced Morsi after he was ousted in a July 3 coup.

The military ousted Morsi after (m) millions of Egyptians took to the streets to call for him to step down, accusing him of giving the Brotherhood undue influence and failing to implement vital reforms or bolster the ailing economy.

The two sit-in camps at two major intersections on opposite sides of the Egyptian capital began in late June to show support for Morsi.

Protesters, many from Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood, have demanded his reinstatement.

Dozens gathered in Istanbul on Tuesday to demonstrate against the arrests of two journalists and an academic over charges of disseminating "terrorist propaganda."

Reporters Without Borders' Erol Onderoglu, along with journalist Ahmet Nesin and academic Sebnem Korur Fincanci, had participated in a solidarity campaign in support of Ozgur Gundem, a pro-Kurdish publication subject to multiple investigations and lawsuits.

State-run Anadolu Agency said the three acted as chief editors for a day for the publication, and the issues they edited in May and earlier in June included alleged terrorist propaganda.

The arrest of the three was ordered after they testified before the public prosecutor.

Press freedom advocates warn that freedom of expression has dramatically declined in Turkey, where lawsuits against journalists, academics and other public figures are common.

More than a dozen journalists are in prison, although the government insists they have been jailed for criminal activity, not journalistic work.

Dozens gathered in Istanbul on Tuesday to demonstrate against the arrests of two journalists and an academic over charges of disseminating "terrorist propaganda."

Reporters Without Borders' Erol Onderoglu, along with journalist Ahmet Nesin and academic Sebnem Korur Fincanci, had participated in a solidarity campaign in support of Ozgur Gundem, a pro-Kurdish publication subject to multiple investigations and lawsuits.

State-run Anadolu Agency said the three acted as chief editors for a day for the publication, and the issues they edited in May and earlier in June included alleged terrorist propaganda.

The arrest of the three was ordered after they testified before the public prosecutor.

Press freedom advocates warn that freedom of expression has dramatically declined in Turkey, where lawsuits against journalists, academics and other public figures are common.

More than a dozen journalists are in prison, although the government insists they have been jailed for criminal activity, not journalistic work.

Istanbul - 21 June 2016

1. Protesters chanting slogans (in Turkish) "Free press can not be silenced"

2. Poster with picture of of Sebnem Korur Fincanci reading (in Turkish) "She is not alone"

3. Protesters listening to speaker

4. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Hilan Nesin, wife of arrested journalist Ahmet Nesin:

"My husband is in jail for nothing but defending peoples' right to freedom of information. He has been jailed only because he was showing solidarity with his colleagues. But they have created a perception of him as 'terrorist'."

5. Protesters chanting slogans (in Turkish) "Detentions, arrests, oppression can not intimidate us"

6. Protester chanting (in Turkish) "Free press cannot be silenced"

7. Poster of Ahmet Nesin, Sebnem Korur Fincanci and Erol Onderoglu (from screen left to right) reading (in Turkish) "Thinking cannot be jailed"

8. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Kardelen Korur Fincanci, daughter of Sebnem Korur Fincanci:

"As my mother said in her defence statement yesterday, we have arrived the beginning of the end (of Turkey's President Erdogan's policies) with these last three arrests. Our patience is wearing thin. From now on, it is our time (to act). Thank you."

9. Protesters

10. Close up of poster reading (in Turkish) "Director of Turkey Human Rights Foundation, Sebnem Korur Fincanci, should be released immediately."

11. Tilt down of protester holding Ozgur Gundem newspaper

12. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Inan Kizilkaya, employee at Ozgur Gundem:

"The message is very clear. It is being said to the people and journalists, "if you touch the (daily news) agenda, you will be harmed." But we are as clear as them. If the solidarity angers them that much, it means we are on the right track. It means we will be more shoulder to shoulder, and be hand in hand. There is no other way out of this darkness and out of this swamp."

13. Protesters chanting slogans (in Turkish) "Long live solidarity against fascism"

14. Top shot of protest

15. Various of Ozgur Gundem newspaper offices and journalist working

16. Close-up keyboard

17. Journalist writing the name of people who have volunteered to act as acting editor of chief

18. Ozgur Gundem's front page with headline reading (in Turkish) "Purposeful solidarity"

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Istanbul on Tuesday to protest against curfews and clashes in the southeast of Turkey, where the military has ramped up operations against Kurdish militants.

Turkey's biggest unions called for the rally to take place.

Periodic clashes have erupted between government forces and Kurdish opposition fighters since peace talks collapsed in July.

Security forces launched a large-scale operation last week, which they said aimed to rout militants linked to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

They claim 210 militants have been killed.

Tens of thousands of civilians in southeast Turkey have been caught in the middle as government forces and Kurdish militants battle it out in urban areas.

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Istanbul on Tuesday to protest against curfews and clashes in the southeast of Turkey, where the military has ramped up operations against Kurdish militants.

Turkey's biggest unions called for the rally to take place.

Periodic clashes have erupted between government forces and Kurdish opposition fighters since peace talks collapsed in July.

Security forces launched a large-scale operation last week, which they said aimed to rout militants linked to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

They claim 210 militants have been killed.

Tens of thousands of civilians in southeast Turkey have been caught in the middle as government forces and Kurdish militants battle it out in urban areas.

Istanbul - 29 December 2015

1. Wide of demonstrators chanting, UPSOUND (Turkish) "The palace (Presidential Palace) wants war, the people want peace"; demonstrators holding banners reading (Turkish) "We will stop the palace's war" (top banner, black text on white) and "We will defend peace against war" (bottom banners, white text on red)

2. Demonstrators

3. Demonstrators chanting, UPSOUND (Turkish) demonstrators: "No to war, (we want) peace, quickly, right now"

4. Demonstrators chanting, UPSOUND (Turkish) "Our right to protest cannot be prevented"

5. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Saziye Kose, Co-chair of Confederation of Public Employees' Unions (KESK):

++AUDIO AS INCOMING++

"We have been seeing step-by-step that after 7 June and 1 November (both in 2015, the dates of Turkey's parliamentary elections) this country is being pushed to the brink of a civil war. We are seeing that towns, neighbourhoods and cities are surrounded (by Turkish security forces) and the people's right to live is being taken out of their hands. The people are targeted by snipers, and (we are seeing that) the most damaged party is civilians. And today, all the people who are intended to be killed and to be murdered are women, children and the elderly."

6. Demonstrators chanting. UPSOUND (Turkish) "Shoulder to shoulder against fascism"; demonstrators holding same banners as shot 1

7. Demonstrators holding flags and chanting, UPSOUND (Turkish) "The palace (wants) war, the people want peace"

8. Demonstrators including Fecri Yasar (front) holding banner

9. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Fecri Yasar, Demonstrator:

++AUDIO AS INCOMING++

"Our request is: to stop this war as soon as possible, to go back to peace talks, (we want) peace to come back, to rescue the people from massacres and cruelty. Our aim is that."

10. Various of riot police

11. Demonstrators

SHOTLIST:

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Sisli neighbourhood, Istanbul

1. Mid of police officer firing rubber bullets

2. Zoom into demonstrators throwing objects at police

3. Wide police on street, AUDIO: people banging on pots and pans in support of demonstrators

4. Close of police officer looking down street

5. Wide of police on street by water cannon vehicle

6. Mid of police by burning debris

7. Wide of man banging pot in support of demonstrators

8. Wide of man clapping for demonstrators and shouting and gesturing at police, AUDIO: people banging on pots and pans in support of demonstrators

9. Mid of burning debris, police in background

Harbiye neighbourhood, Istanbul

10. Various of police using pepper spray on protesters outside Divan Hotel

11. Wide of protesters running away from police

12. Wide of police herding away protesters

13. Mid of plain clothed police officer with camera pushing man away

14. Wide of water cannon vehicle

15. Wide of protesters cheering at water cannon vehicle

16. Wide of protesters

17. Mid of plain clothed police officers

18. Wide of police unit carrying riot gear

19. Wide of protesters outside

20. Pan from mid of police to wide of chanting protesters

STORYLINE:

Sporadic clashes continued on Sunday in several neighbourhoods of Turkey's largest city Istanbul, after police blocked protesters from accessing Taksim Square as protesters vowed they would retake the adjacent Gezi Park, a small urban park at the heart of the dispute that has sparked weeks of demonstrations and unrest.

In Harbiye neighbourhood, protesters gathered outside the luxury Divan Hotel, which police had targeted with tear gas overnight after protesters sought shelter inside.

On Sunday protesters staged a sit-in outside and tried to bar police from the area.

Eventually riot police used tear gas and pepper spray to disperse them.

Protesters set up barricades and plumes of tear gas rose in Istanbul's streets the day after Turkish riot police ousted the group who had vowed to stay in Gezi Park despite Erdogan's warnings to leave.

Shortly after police had entered the tent city on Saturday, bulldozers cleared all that was left of a two-week sit-in and police sealed off the area to keep demonstrators away from the spot that has become the focus of the strongest challenge to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in his 10 years in office.

Throughout Sunday police chased protesters in side streets close to the park and beyond.

Local residents leaned from windows when riot police passed through, banging pots and pan to make their sympathy with the protesters' cause plain.

Rubber bullets and tear gas canisters were once again fired at demonstrators and several barricades were set on fire by activists.

The protests, which have left at least four people dead and more than five thousand injured, have dented Erdogan's international reputation and infuriated him with a previously unseen defiance to his rule.

Saturday's raid came less than two hours after Erdogan threatened protesters in a boisterous speech in Sincan, an Ankara suburb that is a stronghold of his party.

Police in Istanbul detained more demonstrators on Tuesday when they tried to march towards Istanbul's symbolic main square in defiance of a May Day ban.

Turkish authorities declared Taksim Square off-limits to May Day celebrations, citing security concerns.

Roads leading to the square were blocked and police allowed only small groups of labour union representatives to lay wreaths at a monument there.

The demonstrators were detained as they tried to push their way into the square but were rounded up by riot police.

More than a dozen demonstrators were detained earlier on Tuesday.

Major trade unions were scheduled to mark the day with rallies at government-designated areas in Istanbul and Ankara.

Taksim has symbolic meaning for Turkey's labour movement after 34 people were killed there during a May Day event in 1977 when shots were fired into the crowd from a nearby building.

Istanbul - 1 May 2018

1. Various of police detaining demonstrators and bus carrying detained demonstrators driving off

2. Various demonstrators UPSOUND: "Long live May 1" and "Taksim is the place for May 1"

3. Police blocking demonstrators

A protest against the bombardment of the Syrian city of Aleppo was held in Istanbul's central Taksim district on Saturday.

The protesters stood in silence as they held placards and pictures showing scenes from war-torn Aleppo.

The 'Global Day of Rage for Aleppo', as it was called, was organised by a Syrian non-governmental organisation worker in Istanbul.

Nearly 300,000 people are trapped in Aleppo's rebel-held eastern districts, a pocket of resistance some eight miles (13 kilometres) long and three miles (five kilometres) wide that civil defence workers say has been hit by 1,900 bombs in the past week.

The campaign has wreaked destruction on hospitals, clinics, residential buildings, water stations and electric generators.

At least 96 children are among the 320 people killed in Aleppo since a ceasefire collapsed on 19 September, according to UN refugee agency UNICEF, as Syrian and Russian warplanes barrage the city's eastern opposition neighbourhoods, trying to crush more than five years of resistance there.

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Istanbul - 1 October 2016

1. Various of protesters in Taksim district holding placards

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Yassin Al-Haj Saleh, Syrian activist and former political detainee:

"Demonstrations will be held in many cities in US, Argentina, Spain, Germany, France and other countries. And we are people from Syria, and from Turkey, and some other of our friends are expressing our anger towards the Russian aggression that led so far to killing of more than 400 people and around 100 children."

3. Activists, with one holding placard reading (English) "Stop barrel bombs"

4. Activist talking to fellow activist Masis Kurkcugil

5. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Masis Kurkcugil, Syrian activist:

"In Aleppo, there has been state-terror from the very beginning, and moreover, now there is terror created by IS. People are desperate as they face these two threats. And yet foreign powers having such a strong presence in the region also add to that desperation."

6. Various of protesters holding placards and signs

Turkish police used tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon on Tuesday as they clashed with Kurdish protesters in Istanbul.

Protesters set fire to barricades and threw stones at police officers.

Ninety-eight people were detained - and 30 people were injured, including eight police officers - during clashes in and around Istanbul on Tuesday, the Istanbul Governorship said in a news release early on Wednesday.

Turkish news agencies say that at least 14 people died on Tuesday and scores were injured in clashes across the country between Turkish police and Kurdish protesters.

The protesters are demanding that Turkey offer more help to the besieged Kurdish forces struggling to hold onto Kobani, a strategic Syrian town near the Turkish border.

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Istanbul, Turkey - 7 October, 2014

++NIGHT SHOTS++

1. Various of protesters and police officers in helmets on the street; tear gas rising in the air

2. Police officer with rubber bullet gun walking along street and firing, AUDIO: Gunfire

3. Police water cannon being brought into position

4. Wide of water cannon being fired; police officers firing tear gas then advancing

5. Mid of water cannon being fired

6. Wide of vegetable stall; tear gas rising from street

7. Water cannon reversing

SHOTLIST

1. Man cleaning graffiti from shutter of shop

2. Close-up of man cleaning graffiti

3. Close-up of broom sweeping up rubbish

4. Wide of street cleaner working

5. Mid of man looking at newspapers in a kiosk

6. Close-up of front page reading (Turkish) "What a beautiful Turkey"

7. Close-up of front page with picture of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan reading (Turkish) "Ten months to the polls"

8. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Nazli Sagdec, interpreter and disc jockey:

"I have no idea because he (Erdogan) is acting like a little kid taking the little toys from our hands very aggressively, so I don't know."

9. Wide of protest barricade in street

10. Close-up of barricade

11. SOUNDBITE (English) Hussein (no surname given), mechanical engineer:

"What's going to (happen) next we don't know, we just want to have a reasonable government who wants to really listen to us."

12. Wide of man cleaning graffiti from shop front

13. Wide of cleaning truck in Istiklal Avenue

STORYLINE

Shopkeepers and street cleaners in Istanbul were clearing up on Tuesday after a fourth day of protests.

Clashes continued late into the night on Monday in both Istanbul and the Turkish capital, Ankara.

The protests, the biggest Turkey has seen in recent years, were sparked by the police crackdown on Friday of a peaceful sit-in to prevent the demolition of a park in Istanbul.

Thousands later joined anti-government rallies across Turkey to voice discontent with the 10-year rule of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The protests are seen as a display of frustration with Erdogan, whom critics say has become increasingly authoritarian.

Many accuse him of forcing his conservative, religious Islamic outlook on the lives of secular Turks.

"What's going to (happen) next we don't know, we just want to have a reasonable government who wants to really listen to us," said Hussein, an Istanbul resident, who gave only his first name.

On Monday evening, a trade union confederation called for a two-day strike starting on Tuesday.

Officials said on Tuesday that a 22-year-old man had been shot dead during an anti-government protest in Antakya city, near the border with Syria.

Another protester was reported killed in Istanbul on Monday.

Officials said that death was accidental.

SHOTLIST

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1. Close of burned out vehicle; anti-government demonstrators marching with flags

2. Different group of anti-government demonstrators chanting (Turkish) "Victory, victory, victory!"

3. Wide of demonstrators carrying banner reading (Turkish) "Revolutionary Movement."

4. Various of crowd chanting (Turkish) "Government resign!"

5. Mid of demonstrators chanting (Turkish) "Keep up the struggle!"

6. Various of demonstrators dancing in a circle

7. Mid of rubble and debris on street from Friday and Saturday's protests

8. Various of demonstrators cleaning streets and picking up rubbish

9. Mid of overturned vehicle, pan right to people in front of Gezi Park, Taksim Square

STORYLINE

Nearly one thousand anti-government demonstrators gathered in Istanbul's Taksim Square on Sunday for a third consecutive day of nationwide protests.

Groups from various opposition political parties and protesters called for the resignation of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Erdogan remains largely defiant in the face of the biggest popular challenge to his power in a decade in office. He has offered concessions but insists the protests are illegitimate.

What started as a small sit-in on Friday against the renovation of a central square in Istanbul spiralled into chaos as thousands took to the streets on Friday and Saturday in protest against Erdogan's government.

The demonstrations grew out of anger over a violent police crackdown of a peaceful environmental protest at Istanbul's Taksim Square and spread to other Turkish cities.

On Sunday, the demonstrations were more peaceful in Istanbul compared to previous days.

On Saturday, riot police in Istanbul and Ankara had attempted to disperse crowds with tear gas and water cannons before retreating and allowing demonstrators to gather in the cities' main squares.

In a gesture to placate protesters, Erdogan conceded that police may have used tear gas excessively and said the matter would be investigated.

Demonstrators were seen on Sunday clearing away the rubble and cleaning the streets. The damage was caused during the clashes between police and protesters in previous days.

The government said around one thousand people have been detained during the protests. Hundreds have been injured in the clashes.