Turkish protesters, police clash at IMF meeting

[Joanne98]

Source: Reuters

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish police fired tear gas and used water cannon for a second day to break up protests in Istanbul against the International Monetary Fund and World Bank on Wednesday.
Several hundred students and members of Turkish unions and left-wing political parties, carrying banners reading "IMF get out" clashed with riot police a few hundred meters (yards) from the IMF-World Bank meetings.

Turkish media and Reuters reporters said protests by groups of dozens to more than 100 people were taking place across several points in Istanbul, Turkey's largest city.

Several youths threw stones at police in Sisli district near the IMF-World Bank convention center before riot police moved in to break up the protests, pushing them into side streets where they threw petrol bombs at banks and shops.


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