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A man protects a woman as they face a police officer dispersing protesters who gathered on the central Istoklal avenue near Taksim square in Istanbul, on May 31, 2014, as the police blocked access to the square during the one year anniversary of the Gezi Park and Taksim Square demonstrations. Demosntrations and clashes in Istanbul have become commonplace, from protesting against the govenment or for mine safety, to demonstrating againt the killing of protesters.
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Injured protesters lie on the ground as Turkish riot police officers fire tear gas to disperse demonstrators gathered on the central Istoklal avenue near Taksim square in Istanbul, on May 31, 2014, as the police blocked access to the square during the one year anniversary of the Gezi Park and Taksim Square demonstrations.
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Militants of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) stand in the street with guns during a demonstration after the funeral of a protester killed in a recent protest, on May 23, 2014, in the Okmeydani district of Istanbul.
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An injured miner is carried by rescuers after an explosion in Soma, Turkey, on May 13, 2014. On May 17, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Taner Yıldız confirmed the number of dead was 301, making the disaster the worst mine accident in Turkey's history, 486 people survived. On 13 May 2014, an explosion during a shift change caused an underground mine fire which burned until 15 May.
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A rescued miner gets a kiss from his father after a mine explosion on May 13, 2014, in Soma, Turkey. On May 17, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Taner Yıldız confirmed the number of dead was 301, making the disaster the worst mine accident in Turkey's history.
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A woman mourns after being told her brother died on May 14, 2014 following an explosion and fire in a coal mine in Soma, Turkey.
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Duygu Colak mourns at the grave of her husband, Ugur, on May 15, 2014 during a funeral ceremony in the western town of Soma in the Manisa province. Ugur died in Turkey's worst mining accident.
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Protesters burn as a barricade catches fire during clashes with police on February 20, 2014 in Kiev. Anti-goverment protests in Ukraine's capital turned violent in February and at least 82 people were killed over the following few days, including 13 policemen; more than 1,100 people were injured.
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A protester throws a petrol bomb as he stands behind barricades during clashes with police on February 20, 2014 in Kiev.
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A protester holds an Ukranian national flag in a burned building during a face-off against police on February 20, 2014 in Kiev.
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Protesters stand behind burning barricades during a face-off against police on February 20, 2014 in Kiev. Hundreds of armed protesters charged police barricades Thursday on Kiev's central Independence Square, despite a truce called just hours earlier by the country's embattled president.
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An anti-government demonstrator throws a burning tire as he build a barricade on February 21, 2014 at the Independent square in Kiev.
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Paramedics perform CPR on an anti-government protester, who would die shortly afterwards, during clashes with riot police in central Kiev on February 20, 2014. At least 25 protesters were killed on February 20 in fresh clashes between thousands of demonstrators and heavily-armed riot police.
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An anti-government protester waits with a bat at the entrance of Independence square in Kiev on February 23, 2014. A new era opened in Ukraine on February 23 as parliament gave itself three days to form a new government after impeaching a defiant president Viktor Yanukovych and calling early elections following a week of carnage.
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A helmet and flowers are left on a barricade made of tires in central Kiev on February 26, 2014. Ukraine's pro-Western interim leaders were set to unveil their new cabinet after disbanding the feared riot police as they sought to build confidence in the splintered and economically ravaged ex-Soviet nation. A
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An alleged sniper (C) and member of the pro-government forces is beaten by anti-government protestors in Kiev on February 22, 2014.
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People belonging to different groups have a discussion as they wait in front of the Ukrainian parliament during a rally in Kiev on February 27, 2014. Deposed Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych the same day said he still considers himself to be Ukraine's head of state but asked Russia to ensure his personal security.
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People gather around a coffin of a man who was killed during the recent clashes with the riot police during a funeral cermony on Kiev's Independence square on March 1, 2014.
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Anti-government protesters stand guard in front of the parliament building in Kiev on February 22, 2014. Ukraine's parliament on February 22 voted to hold early presidential elections on May 25, passing a resolution stating that Viktor Yanukovych had failed to properly fulfil his duties as president.
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A Syrian Kurd carries an elderly woman after crossing the border between Syria and Turkey near the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province, on September 20, 2014. Several thousand Syrian Kurds began crossing into Turkey on September 19 fleeing Islamic State (IS) fighters who advanced into their villages, prompting warnings of massacres from Kurdish leaders. Turkey on September 19 reopened its border with Syria to Kurds fleeing IS militants, saying a "worst-case scenario" could drive as many as 100,000 more refugees into the country.
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A Kurdish woman runs away from a water cannon during clashes with Turkish soldiers near the Syrian border after Turkish authorities temporarily closed the border, blocking Syrian Kurds who had accompanied their families to safety inside Turkey from returning to the battlefront, on September 22, 2014, at the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province.
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Kurdish protesters throw stones at Turkish soldiers during clashes near the Syrian border after Turkish authorities temporarily closed the border at the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province, on September 21, 2014.
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Turkish and Syrian Kurds try to tear down the border fence to cross into Kobani in neighboring Syria during a demonstration near the Mursitpinar border crossing at Suruc in Sanliurfa province, on September 26, 2014. Tens of thousands of Syrian Kurds flooded into Turkey fleeing an onslaught by the jihadist Islamic State (IS) group that prompted an appeal for international intervention. Some of the refugee now want to return to protect their homes and join the fight against IS militants.
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Syrian Kurds go back to Syria at Mursitpinar crossing gate at the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province, on September 24, 2014.The numbers of Kurdish refugees fleeing into Turkey to escape the advance of Islamic State jihadists in northern Syria has slowed considerably over the last few days, Turkish officials said.
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Turkish military forces of the Jandarma (Police Force) block the acces to the Mursitpinar crossing gate near the Syrian border, as Syrian Kurdish people try to pass, in the southeastern town of Suruc, Sanliurfa province, on September 28, 2014. Hundreds of Kurds on September 26 broke through the Turkish border into Syrian territory to join Kurdish forces battling the advance of Islamic State (IS) militants around the Syrian town of Ain al-Arab.
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Syrian Kurdish children wait after crossing the border near the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province, on September 21, 2014. Tens of thousands of Syrian Kurds flooded into Turkey on September 20, fleeing an onslaught by the jihadist Islamic State group that prompted an appeal for international intervention.
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Syrian Kurds ride a truck after crossing the border between Syria and Turkey after several mortars hit both sides in the southeastern town of Suruc, in the Sanliurfa province, on September 30, 2014. Tens of thousands of Syrian Kurds flooded into Turkey fleeing an onslaught by the Islamic State (IS) group that prompted an appeal for international intervention.
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A Turkish soldier kisses Syrian Kurds children in Sanliurfa province, on September 20, 2014, after they crossed the border between Syria and Turkey near the southeastern town of Suruc. Several thousand Syrian Kurds began crossing into Turkey on September 19 fleeing Islamic State fighters who advanced into their villages, prompting warnings of massacres from Kurdish leaders.
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A Syrian Kurdish woman waits with her daughter near the Syria border at the southeastern town of Suruc in the Sanliurfa province after crossing the border between Syria and Turkey after several mortars hit both sides on October 2, 2014. Islamic State fighters are pushing towards a key Kurdish town on Syria's border with Turkey, whose parliament is set on October 2 to consider authorising military intervention against the jihadists on its doorstep.
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A Syrian Kurdish woman wipes her eyes during a dust storm on a hill where she and others stand watching clashes between jihadists of the Islamic State (IS) and Kurdish fighters, at Swedi village some 10 km west of Suruc in Sanliurfa province, on September 24, 2014.
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An elderly Syrian Kurd woman sleeps in her wheelchair after she crossed the border between Syria and Turkey near the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province, on September 20, 2014.
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