ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The "lady in the red dress", hair billowing upwards from the blast of a Turkish policeman's tear gas gun, became a central image of summer anti-government protests across Turkey. Now the policeman faces prosecution demands for a jail term of up to three years, a legal source said on Wednesday.
An indictment accused police officer Fatih Zengin of using excessive force by spraying the woman from less than a metre away even though she had not been engaged in any provocative acts, Turkish media reports said.
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