Turkish residents give new meaning to “a bee in your bonnet” in anti-demolition protest.
Residents clashed with police and other security forces on Tuesday during the demolition of some buildings constructed on watercourses in the Sancaktepe and Samandıra neighborhoods of İstanbul.
Sancaktepe residents blocked streets in their neighborhood with garbage containers early in the morning to prevent teams from demolishing their houses. Police, in response, tried to disperse the angry crowd with tear gas. When the residents started to throw Molotov cocktails and stones at police, police officers confronted them by firing warning shots into the air and using water cannons and pepper spray. Protestors also threw beehives at police.
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