Erdogan spoke at Istanbul's Grand Camlica Mosque where he asked Allah to ensure that Zionism and Israel are destroyed, while wishing "mercy upon the (Hamas) martyrs"
Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said this week that nearly 1,900 people had been detained since the protests began, adding that courts had jailed 260 of them pending trial as of Thursday.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry said that Israel's strike on Beirut was a violation of the ceasefire agreement Israel holds with Lebanon.
A Massachusetts judge temporarily halted the deportation of a Turkish Tufts student detained after supporting Palestinians in Gaza.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan calls protests a “show” as anger over jailing grows.
Police intervened forcefully during the protest, and demonstrators took cover behind dumpsters before being detained.
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The jailed founder of a Kurdish nationalist group has called for the movement to lay down its arms, but Kurdish forces seem unwilling to as long as Turkish strikes continue.
Study links marble objects from Porphyreon and Chhim to quarries in Turkey, Greece.
With protests starting to lose momentum, people are starting to question whether opposition parties are doing enough themselves.
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