Berkin Elvan was on an errand when he was caught in a government crackdown on widespread street protests last summer. Tuesday, he died of his injuries — and that reignited the anger of thousands in Istanbul and around the country against Turkey’s prime minister and his government.
Princeton University’s Zeynep Tufekci has spent several days with protestors in a tent city in Istanbul’s Gezi Park. She tells anchor Marco Werman that Turkish youth are tired of trying to work through the country’s weak oppositional parties.
Hundreds of Turks staged a protest against the government’s plan to pave over an Istanbul park to build a shopping mall. Reporter Dalia Mortada tells anchor Marco Werman about how the protests have morphed and changed over the past several days.