bbc.com
March 12, 2014
Tens of thousands of people have marched through Istanbul for the funeral of a teenage boy injured during anti-government protests last year.
Berkin Elvan, 15, spent 269 days in a coma before his death on Tuesday.
Many of the protesters echoed his mother’s claim that the Turkish prime minister was his ‘killer’.
Later, police used water cannon to disperse a protest in Istanbul’s Taksim Square while in the capital Ankara, tear gas was fired at demonstrators.
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