Istanbul Riot Control

I am a german living in Istanbul. I just want to remark that this is not an millitary police officer. He is wearing the uniform of a special police unit which is in no way connected to the millitary. Furthermore Istanbul does not have a 3000 men police force; a couple of hundreds at the most. I was living in Istanbul at that time and I witnessed the events that took place. Anyway the police in turkey is almost like you say but they very rarely attack ppl who have any kind of camera on them.

I must congratulate you on your photographic skills though (in fact this is what this site is about anyway) very nice pictures !

Finally, and this is my opinion o course I would never ever believe anything a cnn producer or any affiliate telling me about anything because I do not believe that cnn is impartial and doing what they are supposed to do: gathering the truth and broadcast it "as it is" (I am studying Media and communication systems by the way)