ANKARA - Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in a residential area of the Turkish capital overnight, setting up barricades and lighting small bonfires. Weeks of often violent anti-government protests have mostly died out in Istanbul and the center of the capital Ankara, but daily demonstrations by a small core have continued in its recently developed working-class Dikmen district. The protesters, numbering no more than a thousand, blocked Dikmen's main road with makeshift barricades and started small fires late on Wednesday, some chanting anti-government slogans. Riot police and water cannon trucks initially kept their distance but moved in to disperse the protesters in the early hours, footage from anti-government channel Halk TV showed.
(photo credit: The Jerusalem Post)