Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan gives a speech at the start of an official four-day tour of the Maghreb, in Rabat June 3, 2013. REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Anti-government protesters responsible for Turkey's worst riots in years are "arm-in-arm with terrorism", Prime Minister Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said, in a defiant response to four days of unrest in dozens of cities across the country.
Hundreds of police and protesters have been injured since Friday, when a demonstration to halt construction in a park in an Istanbul square grew into mass protests against a heavy-handed police crackdown and what opponents call Erdogan's authoritarian policies.
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