Clashes go into the night in Turkey

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STORY: Hundreds of protesters in an Istanbul suburb hurled Molotov cocktails as Turkish police tried to disperse them with water cannons on Saturday.

The protests started as a campaign against government plans to build over an Istanbul park, but spiraled into an unprecedented display of public anger over the perceived authoritarianism of the Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan.

In the past week, the country has seen the worst riots in decades.