May Day in Turkey
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Protesters run through clouds of tear gas in the Pangalti neighborhood of central Istanbul. Pangalti was the main meeting point for the trade unions, but when demonstrators arrived they discovered that the police had shut off all auxiliary roads in a massive pre-dawn operation. (Iason Athanasiadis/GlobalPost)
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