Scores wounded and detained as May Day protests turn violent

(1 May 2014) Scores of people were injured or detained across Istanbul on Thursday during May Day clashes between riot police and demonstrators.
In a written statement, the Istanbul governor's office said 142 people were detained and 90 were wounded as confrontations escalated. Nineteen of the wounded were police officers.
The Dogan news agency, citing the Istanbul Medical Chamber, reported some serious injuries, and a paramedic at the scene said he himself had seen five, including three hit by teargas canisters.
The report said that more than a dozen people were wounded by tear gas canisters and hundreds had received treatment at clinics for exposure to gas.
Determined to defy a government ban, hundreds of demonstrators tried to march towards the city's iconic Taksim Square, but were prevented by police water cannon and tear gas.
Last week city, administrators said the square would be off limits to International Workers' Day demonstrations and most points of entry were blocked.
Before being declared a national holiday in 2009, May 1 was a day of conflict that often led to violence across Turkey.
Taksim is symbolic for Turkey's labour movement. In 1977, 34 people were killed in the square during a May Day event when shots were fired into the crowd from a nearby building.
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