Smoked Turkey: Police vehicles ablaze, black plumes over Taksim (VIDEO)

At Taksim Square some of the police have dismantled barricades which protesters erected over the days of action.

They have also taken down protest banners from the buildings surrounding the square.

Others were using water cannons to scatter the protesters trying to retake the square.

The activists threw firebombs and fireworks at the armored police trucks.

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