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Anger and frustration over the pace of aid and rescue efforts boiled over when more than 1000 people marched on the Bingol governor's office on Friday morning chanting demands that he resign.
Seconds later, police on the steps of the office fired bursts of shots in the air for about two minutes.
Mr Erdogan, who visited Bingol after the quake, said there had been a rapid response to the crisis and blamed the unrest on troublemakers.
"According to intelligence reports, there were serious activities directed at provocation," he told a news conference in the capital, Ankara.
"I call on the people of Bingol to be more calm and sensitive."
He confirmed reports that the Bingol police chief Osman Nuri Ozdemir had been suspended from duties but defended the action of security forces.
"There was no firing on people. It was firing in the air ... It is something that is used from time to time to take control of a situation," he said.
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