Scores arrested in Turkey May Day demos
Turkish police arrested scores of people including union leaders taking part in May Day demonstrations here Tuesday, organizers and the media said.
Most of the 82 arrests made by mid-morning came as participants in one of two major rallies tried to march on central Taksim Square in defiance of a ban by the Istanbul authorities, according to the Anatolia news agency. Land and sea traffic was paralyzed in the city of more than 12 million as the authorities blocked roads, cancelled ferries and closed metro stations as they tried to cope with two labour rallies on either side of the Bosphorus.
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