Qatar- Turkey police fire tear gas at opposition paper rally

3/5/2016 12:07:03 PM

(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Smoke rises near a group of women as Turkish anti-riot police officers use tear gas to disperse supporters in front of the headquarters of the Turkish daily newspaper Zaman in Istanbul on March 5 2016 after Turkish authorities seized the headquarters in a midnight raid./ AFP / OZAN KOSE

Istanbul:Turkish riot police on Saturday fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse hundreds of protesters who gathered outside an opposition newspaper the day after it was seized by authorities in a violent raid.

Police used large amounts of tear gas water cannon and plastic bullets to disperse a crowd of around 500 protesters outside the Istanbul premises of Zaman daily an AFP photographer at the scene reported.

AFP

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