In Turkey, the protests are flaring up again: Thousands go in Istanbul and other cities on the road, flying stones. The police responded with tear gas and water cannons. According to local media, more than 150 protesters were arrested.

Again protesters and police face each other in Turkish cities: Because a boy, who was lying by the police force for nine months in a coma, died on Tuesday, people go back on the road. It is evidently led to 150 arrests on the night of Wednesday. The local media reported.

Were injured, according to the news agency Dogan about 20 demonstrators. From several other cities a greater number of arrests was known reports the Turkish daily “Radikal”.

Turkey Protests after the Death of a boy:Berkin Elvan died after 269 days in a coma

The boy, whose death is the cause of the demonstrations was made ​​back in June last year at the height of the wave of protests in Gezi Park by a tear gas projectile police on the head. And again, the police used against about a thousand protesters in front of the Istanbul hospital on Tuesday tear gas and water cannons. In the hospital, the boy was Berkin Elvan died after 269 days in a coma. Protesters threw stones at a police van and stole helmets and shields.

After the news of the death of the boy whose fate has become in Turkey has become a symbol for the harsh police crackdown on the protests, there were demonstrations in many cities. In Ankara, police used tear gas and water cannon against thousands of students around before the Technical University before that blocked a major thoroughfare with photos of the dead Berkin in the hands.

On a central square of the capital, hundreds more demonstrators gathered. Eyewitnesses reported by several injured in Ankara. From Istanbul least one injured person was reported.

Berkin Elvan is the eighth deaths of nationwide mass protests against the government, among them is also a police officer. In addition, during the demonstrations more than 8000 people were injured. The anger of the demonstrators was kindled in a state building project in the central Gezi Park in Istanbul, then but overall turned against the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

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