Duty' to evict protesters says Erdogan

Speaking at a rally on Sunday of tens of thousands of government supporters on Sunday in Istanbul, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that it was his "duty" to evict the protesters from Istanbul Park.

Asserting that the two week protest had been manipulated by "terrorists", Erdogan rejected accusations of authoritarianism.

The Tamil Guardian's Ismail Okan Ukav was at a pro-government rally in Ankara on Saturday and sent us these photographs:







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