{"id":41681,"date":"2013-06-13T21:37:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T20:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/protesters-file-into-taksim-square-despite-pms-final-warning\/41681\/"},"modified":"2013-06-13T21:37:22","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T20:37:22","slug":"protesters-file-into-taksim-square-despite-pms-final-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/protesters-file-into-taksim-square-despite-pms-final-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesters File Into Taksim Square Despite PM&#039;s &#039;Final Warning&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish protesters <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/on-air\/istanbul-protest-tear-gas\/\">continued<\/a> to file into Taksim Square Thursday night and vowed to remain in Istanbul&#8217;s Gezi Park despite a &#8216;last warning&#8217; issued by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"image-right\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/sites\/commondreams.org\/files\/imagecache\/headline_image\/article_images\/bmqliuucyaayoot.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"imagecache imagecache-headline_image imagecache-default imagecache-headline_image_default\" width=\"275\" height=\"206\" \/><span class=\"caption\"> Mothers at Istanbul protest Thursday, holding hands and forming a line for their children. (photo via Twitter \/  TIME TURKIYE @timeturkiye) <\/span><\/span>Erdogan was scheduled to meet late Thursday night with some representatives of the protesters occupying the park, as he did Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>However, many have called Erdogan&#8217;s meetings a facade\u2013meaning the protesters he has chosen to meet with do not represent the country&#8217;s broader protest movement and the thousands of protesters involved.<\/p>\n<p>Another showdown between police and protesters remained likely.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have arrived at the end of our patience,&#8221; Erdogan <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/turkish-pm-issues-ultimatum-meet-protesters-185507982.html\">told<\/a> local party leaders in Ankara, the capital.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am giving you my final warning,&#8221; he said, directing his comments toward the protesters.<\/p>\n<p>Now five people have died and over 5,000 have been injured as a result of the heavy police crackdown on the movement that began as a peaceful protest to protect Instanbul&#8217;s last public green space but turned to a larger movement against the Erdogan&#8217;s government.<\/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 href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2013\/06\/13-7\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Protesters File Into Taksim Square Despite PM&#039;s &#039;Final Warning&#039;\">Common Dreams<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish protesters continued to file into Taksim Square Thursday night and vowed to remain in Istanbul&#8217;s Gezi Park despite a &#8216;last warning&#8217; issued by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Mothers at Istanbul protest Thursday, holding hands and forming a line for their children. (photo via Twitter \/ TIME TURKIYE @timeturkiye) Erdogan was scheduled to meet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-41681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41681","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=41681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}