IMF Protesters Met With Tear Gas In Turkey

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by Annina Bergman | October 6, 2009 at 03:19 pm
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Police threw tear gas at the hundreds that protested the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank in Istanbul, Turkey on Tuesday.

Some of the protesters threw fire bombs at a convention centre where leaders of the IMF and the World Bank were meeting. Bank windows were smashed and ATMs broken. Around a hundred protesters were arrested, and hundreds more dispersed after the police shot at them with a water cannon.

There is significant opposition among Turkish students to the IMF, which helped bail Turkey out of a deep financial crisis in 2001. Turkey and the IMF are negotiating a possible new loan agreement after the last one expired more than a year ago.

Source: nytimes.com

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Film izle
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at 10:52 on October 7th, 2009

thanks ..

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Istanbul traveller
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at 11:04 on December 9th, 2009

I can't see how this attitude can help...

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