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Image caption, Police cracked down hard on the original protest in the park
Turkey has been gripped by the biggest street protests since the Islamist-leaning Justice and Development Party (AKP) took power more than a decade ago.
Here, ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ News looks at the causes of the unrest and how it has developed.
