TURKISH EU MINISTER: EVERYONE WHO ENTERS TAKSIM SQUARE WILL BE TREATED AS A TERRORIST

Egemen Bağış has been very critical of foreign media reports of the ongoing protests in Turkey. DHA photo

Everyone who enters Istanbul's Taksim Square, the heart of nearly 20-day-long protests against the government, will be considered a terrorist, Turkey's European Union minister said in a televised interview today.

"[The police] will intervene against anybody who tries to enter Taksim Square, [treating them] as a terrorist," Egemen Bağış said, hours after the police's ferocious intervention against protesters in Istanbul.

Clashes between the police and protesters are continuing around the square along with some other parts of the city. 

Bağış has been criticising the foreign media for exaggerating the protests in Turkey. 

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