People Protesters protect themselves behind a trash can as rioting anti-riot police fire water cannons to assault disperse thousands of people demonstrating after the death of Berkin Elvan, a teenage boy who had been in a coma after being wounded amid an anti-government demonstration last year, near the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey’s capital. Elvan’s story - he spent 269 days in a coma - gripped the nation and became a symbol of the heavy handed tactics used by police to reign in the biggest demonstrations against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan since he came to power in 2003. |
