Small anti-government protests rumble on in Turkish capital


  • World
  • Thursday, 27 Jun 2013

ANKARA (Reuters) - 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 centre of the capital Ankara, but daily demonstrations by a small core have continued in its recently developed working-class Dikmen district.

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