The din of car horns and residents banging pots and pans from balconies in support of the protests resonated across neighborhoods in Istanbul and Ankara late into the night, as hundreds of demonstrators skirmished with riot police.
Roads around Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's office in Istanbul were sealed off as police fired tear gas to push back protesters, and police raided a shopping complex in the centre of the capital Ankara where they believed demonstrators were sheltering, detaining several hundred.
1 of 11. Demonstrators stand in front of a make shift shield during clashes with Turkish riot police in central Ankara June 2, 2013.
Credit: Reuters/Umit Bektas
By Jonathon Burch and Humeyra Pamuk
Roads around Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's office in Istanbul were sealed off as police fired tear gas to push back protesters, and police raided a shopping complex in the centre of the capital Ankara where they believed demonstrators were sheltering, detaining several hundred.
1 of 11. Demonstrators stand in front of a make shift shield during clashes with Turkish riot police in central Ankara June 2, 2013.
Credit: Reuters/Umit Bektas
By Jonathon Burch and Humeyra Pamuk