ISTANBUL (CIHAN) - 44 anti-NATO protesters were detained in the demonstrations against the NATO summit in Istanbul on Monday.
The four different protests across Istanbul took place as the presidents and heads of 46 countries met in the NATO summit. The protesters clashed with riot police and gendarmerie forces. Protesters hurled paving stones and sticks to police while riot police retaliated with teargases and batons.
Protesters overturned the parking vehicles and smashed the windows of shops around.
Istanbul police detained 44 protesters including 3 foreigners. In the protests, twenty-six police were wounded while 22 protesters were suffered from injuries.
Five Greenpeace members suspended themselves from the Bosphorus Bridge and hung a placard to protest the NATO Summit. Suspending themselves from the Bosphorus Bridge, the protesters chanted slogans against NATO and hung a placard read, "Nukes out of NATO ".
Police detained the 18 Greeenpeace members.
Riot-police intervened the illegal demonsration of the protesters who chanted slogans against the leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in quarter of Taksim. One protester was detained.
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