With fists in the air, crowds chanted 'The struggle continues', as protesters marked the third anniversary of the Gezi park demos in Istanbul, Turkey.
Police clashed with activists who gathered at the famous Istiklal street, with the aim of marching to the park.
However, as every year the site was on lockdown along with Taksim Square.
Referring to the Turkish president's criticism of France's violent response to recent labor protests, one protester said, 'I salute the President. It is controversial for a President who criticises French police and the pressure they heaped on people in the country, to dish out this treatment to us today. He is contradicting himself. We don't understand why he is afraid of letting us go to that park'.
Gezi park and nearby Taksim Square became the epicenter of anti-government protests which spiraled into nation-wide demos against the perceived authoritarian rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.