ANKARA, Turkey (AP) ? Police firing water cannons and tear gas have dispersed protesters who erected street barricades near Turkey's parliament overnight.
It was the latest face-off between authorities and demonstrators over the government's response to a protest sit-in that began more than two weeks ago at a coveted Istanbul park.
The pre-dawn melee Saturday in Ankara ? on a street also close to the U.S. Embassy ? came hours after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government asked a small delegation of protesters to persuade the hundreds of others occupying Gezi Park to leave.
Erdogan has promised to let the courts ? and a possible referendum ? decide the fate of a park redevelopment project that has sparked Turkey's biggest protests in decades. His supporters were planning weekend counterdemonstrations in Ankara and Istanbul.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/police-protesters-turkish-pm-seeks-calm-081742991.html
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