{"id":40629,"date":"2013-06-10T18:07:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T17:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/turkey-pm-protesters-will-pay-if-demonstrations-continue\/40629\/"},"modified":"2013-06-10T18:27:41","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T17:27:41","slug":"turkey-pm-protesters-will-pay-if-demonstrations-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/turkey-pm-protesters-will-pay-if-demonstrations-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey PM: Protesters &#8216;Will Pay&#8217; If Demonstrations Continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/20130610-turkey-pm-warns-protesters-will-pay-demos-go\" target=\"_blank\">warned Sunday<\/a> that protesters will &#8220;pay a price&#8221; if they continue the mass demonstrations that have consumed the country over the past two weeks.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"image-right\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"imagecache imagecache-headline_image imagecache-default imagecache-headline_image_default\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/sites\/commondreams.org\/files\/imagecache\/headline_image\/article_images\/2013-06-08t204228z_1165866757_gm1e9690cyy01_rtrmadp_3_turkey-protests.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"164\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"image-right\"><span class=\"caption\">Riot police use a water cannon against an anti-government protester as others run away during a demonstration in central Ankara June 8, 2013. (Reuters \/Stringer ) <\/span><\/span>Erdogan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/europe\/2013\/06\/20136923825823851.html\" target=\"_blank\">told<\/a> a crowd of thousands of his supporters in Ankara, &#8220;Those who do not respect this nation&#8217;s party in power will pay a price. We remained patient, we are still patient but there&#8217;s a limit to our patience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The heavy police crackdown of the protest movement\u2013which began as a peaceful demonstration to protect Istanbuls last public green space\u2013has lead to over 5,000 injuries and two protester deaths throughout the course of the two week uprising.<\/p>\n<p>Erdogan held six rallies on Sunday, &#8220;a measure of tensions after a week of the biggest protests of his decade in power,&#8221; as <em>Reuters<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/06\/10\/us-turkey-protests-idUSBRE9590QA20130610\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a>, in which he called the demonstrators \u201cterrorists\u201d and \u201canarchists.&#8221; Erdogan praised the officers he called \u201cmy police.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Bloomberg<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2013-06-09\/turkey-police-clash-with-protesters-in-ankara.html\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As Erdogan\u2019s bus inched through the capital amid crowds cheering and waving flags, footage on CNN Turk and other channels showed police using tear gas and water cannons to drive demonstrators out of the Kizilay Square district in the city\u2019s center. A few minutes earlier, Erdogan had urged protesters to withdraw.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Protesters, however, remained steadfast in dozens of towns across Turkey <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2013\/06\/09-2\" target=\"_blank\">throughout the weekend<\/a>, leading into Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want life on the square to return to normal,&#8221; said Eyup Muhcu, head of the Chamber of Architects and part of the Taksim Solidarity Platform. &#8220;We are ready for dialogue&#8230;but the prime minister&#8217;s remarks indicate he is not open to dialogue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">_______________________<\/p>\n<p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on: <a title=\"Turkey PM: Protesters 'Will Pay' If Demonstrations Continue\" href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2013\/06\/10-3\" target=\"_blank\">Common Dreams<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Sunday that protesters will &#8220;pay a price&#8221; if they continue the mass demonstrations that have consumed the country over the past two weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-40629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}