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June 17th, 2013 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda “There were horrible images in which one could see that the approach was much too harsh in my view,” Merkel told German broadcaster RTL on Monday.
“What is happening in Turkey at the moment does not meet with our ideas of freedom of assembly, (or) freedom of expression. I am in any case shocked,” she also said.
Turkish police arrested 500 people during anti-government protests in the capital, Ankara, and Istanbul on Sunday and continued to spray tear gas and water at clusters of demonstrators.
“That is part of a developed society,” the Chancellor also said, adding she hoped those against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan would “find their place in a Turkey that is moving into the 21st century.”
She called for a dialogue between the two sides but refused to respond to a question on whether Turkey’s ambition to become a member of the EU could be affected by the government’s response to demonstrations.
Two of Turkey’s main trade unions began a nationwide strike on Monday in protest at a police raid on a protester camp in Istanbul’s Gezi Park.
The strike by Turkish union confederations, DISK and KESK, comes a day after Erdogan defended his crackdown on an Istanbul park protest.
The unrest in Turkey erupted after police broke up a sit-in staged at Taksim Square on May 31 to protest against a government plan for the redevelopment of Gezi Park.
Five people, including a police officer, have reportedly died in the clashes and nearly 7,500 have been injured.
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