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... "Stop disturbing the peace of our fellow citizens with your provocations," President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said of the opposition politician, whom he holds responsible for the violence.

Erdogan has branded the protests "street terrorism".

Turkey's extended ban now applies to the country's three largest cities " Istanbul, Izmir and the capital, Ankara " while the latest tally of arrests sits at nearly 1,500.

Among those arrested are seven journalists including an AFP photographer, who was accused by the authorities of taking part in an illegal rally. AFP has slammed the jailing as "unacceptable" and demanded his immediate release.

Students said they will persist with protests even as Imamoglu's Republican People's Party (CHP), in a change of tactic on Wednesday, said it will not be calling for protests outside Istanbul City Hall.

"We are witnessing the deployment of the full panoply of repressive (tactics), with bans on demonstrations, restrictions on social media and a ban on TV channels broadcasting images of protests," Marc Pierini, associate researcher at Carnegie Europe and former EU ambassador to Syria, told FRANCE 24. ...