ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Thousands of people took to the streets and began building barricades on a main avenue to Istanbul's Taksim Square on Saturday after police firing tear gas raided an adjoining park to evict anti-government protesters, a Reuters witness said.
Police fired tear gas canisters into back streets around the square for several hours after the raid, a second witness said, to try to prevent crowds from regrouping.
(Reporting by Daren Butler and Can Sezer; Writing by Nick Tattersall; Editing by Andrew Roche)
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