Breaking News: Turkish Police use tear gas to scatter May Day protesters

Report reaching us now says Turkish police today used tear gas to disperse a group of protesters as they sought to defy a ban and march to Istanbul's Taksim square to celebrate May Day.
Police tried to stop around 200 protesters in the Gayrettepe district on the European side of Istanbul who wanted to walk to the famous square in spite of the ban by city authorities, an AFP journalist reported.



AFP