Turkish press reported late Saturday night that demonstrators were massing in other parts of Istanbul and headed toward the Taksim area. In late May, a heavy-handed police crackdown on a sit-in to save the park sparked the largest anti-government demonstrations Turkey has seen in recent memory, with protests spreading across the country and Istanbul gripped by days of clashes.

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