Water Canons Blast Demonstrators as Riot police moved in on Taksim Square
The policemen wear helmets and shields and get support for the operation of armored vehicles.The armored vehicles use water cannons against the demonstrators who would not move.
The campaign appears to be aimed at the barricades that protesters have built in Turkey's largest city.
Some of the protesters responded by shooting fireworks and throwing firebombs and stones at police.
Removed banners
It is unclear whether police action is part of a larger effort to clear the area of protestors.
The governor of Istanbul, Huseyin Avni Mutlu, writing on Twitter that the police just walked into the square to remove some banners.
Police removed some large banners that protesters had hung up on a building on a corner of the square.
Instead, the police hung up large Turkish flags and pictures of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of modern Turkey.
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