IN PICTURES: 10 scenes of horror on Gezi anniversary
1) Ünal Altıner, the police chief of Istanbul's Beyoğlu district, has been photographed while detaining two children on İstiklal Avenue. He defended his action, stressing that the children were shooting stones at the policemen with their slings, a "crime" that they allegedly committed in the past, too:
2) One more child was detained in Taksim Square in Istanbul:
3) A protester was filmed while being beaten with police batons in the Cihangir neighborhood near Taksim:
4) Young people lie strewn like debris after police attacked with force:
5) A couple attempts to reason with a police officer:
6) A man carries a bleeding woman away from a shop. The woman lost her shoes in the chaos when police intervened near a pastry shop:
7) An unarmed woman is detained, with police nearly breaking her limbs during the procedure:
8) Police resorted to the batons that they carried in their backpacks more frequently than in last year's protests:
