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Protests in Turkey: Dispatch 1 (6x1)

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On March 11th Berkin Elvin, a 15-year-old Turkish boy died after spending 269 days in a coma. The teenager had been buying bread in his neighbourhood last June, when a tear gar canister struck his skull during a brutal police crackdown against citywide demonstrations. As news of the boy's death spread, Istanbul's streets filled with mourners and protestors shouting anti--governement slogans in a massive outpouring of grief and rage against police brutality and the increasingly authoritarian government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The demonstrations, which led to violent clashes with police were the largest and angriest protests seen in Turkey since last summer.