I'm sitting here looking out the window and there are dark clouds on the horizon. I wonder how the weather will be tomorrow.
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One police officer died last night after falling off a bridge while chasing protesters.
Two protesters have died from the injuries they received during the protests.
The Turkish Minister of the Interior has announced that as of today 915 protesters have been hospitalized with 79 still in the hospital. Four are in extremely critical condition and eight are in intensive care.
According to the report released yesterday by the group of doctors who are keeping track of injuries - 4,177 protesters had been injured, the total number still hospitalized was not given but 43 were in serious or critical condition, and 10 had lost an eye.
Today has been quiet with large protests continuing in Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir and smaller protests in other cities around Turkey.
The Minister of the Interior also said that the ministry's inspectors had examined videos and found that the police had acted responsibly. He also said that the police were keeping track of social media.
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Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan will return to Turkey tonight and is expected to make a speech tomorrow.
At a press conference today in Tunisia he said that the Gezi Park project and plans to replace the Ataturk Cultural Center would go ahead.
He also said that governments couldn't govern by negotiating about things like the list of demands presented to the Deputy Prime Minister by representatives of the protesters yesterday.
He also claimed that the protesters were being used by terrorists - the same ones who bombed the US Embassy in Ankara.
And he continued to allude to foreign involvement in the protests by saying that seven foreigners had been arrested and were in custody.
As he was talking the Istanbul stock market dropped 8% and closed down 4.7% today, and the US Dollar rose 0.64% and the Euro rose 1.46%. Analysts believe that foreign investors pulling their money out of Turkey caused the stock market drop.
Earlier in the day business leaders announced that the protests were having a profound effect on the economy and that tourism cancelations were increasing.
The President of Turkey also earlier in the day announced that he was following events very carefully.
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The PM and top government officials seem to believe that they are doing such a wonderful job that everyone should be praising them and supporting them. They seem to believe that it is impossible for anyone to be dissatisfied with what they are doing and want to do.
And if anyone doesn't support them it can only be because they are fringe elements or terrorists.
Or because they are jealous of their success.
Or because they are afraid of how powerful and influential Turkey has become under this government so they want to remove them from power.
It seems that the next few days will be interesting.
Will cooler heads be able to introduce some reality to the government.
Or will the public have to raise their voices in the parks and on the streets.
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The cover of the next issue of The Economist magazine will have an interesting cover.
http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/...
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BBC - Turkey protests reveal fault-lines in economic success
http://www.bbc.co.uk/...
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