Another stormy night in Turkey • Erdogan: "Danger called Twitter"

More stormy night passed over the cities of Turkey, after clashes took place last night (Sunday) between demonstrators and police forces throughout the country. More than 200 demonstrations were held in no less than 67 cities, and in large cities streets looked like a war zone. The protesters called the target the Islamic ruling party offices in Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir and other cities were stoned, improvised missiles, and in some places set them on fire.

The police, who returned to the scene of the protest, again responded through various means including riot control tear gas, water cannons and mass arrests. While Prime Minister Erdogan - which protesters require to resign - called the protesters "outlaws" and argues that they are organized political demonstrations and flushed by his political opponents in order to damage his party, supported, he says, by the majority.

Erdogan went on to attack the protesters and organizing through social networking. According to claims of the Turkish Prime Minister, twitter and networking are a "threat" to the country and accused the country's secular opposition for demonstrator's encouragement.

Turkish Foreign Minister: protests hampering Turkey's reputation in the world

Television news agencies showed youngsters, some masked, who threw bottles and stones at police cars facing a special dispersing demonstrations, including vehicles with water hoses. The protesters also set fire to objects in Taksim Square in Istanbul. In Besiktas district students began demonstrating in front of the office of Prime Minister Erdogan.

"Al Jazeera" reported that the square became the focus of demonstrations, no longer a majority of "ordinary citizens", but mainly activists and left-wing parties. In Kizilai Square in Ankara, reported police firing tear gas at protesters.

Foreign Minister Ahmed Davutoglu of Turkey called last night to end protests and said that they harmed the reputation of Turkey in the region and the world. "Continuing these demonstrations will not bring results, but only damage the image of our country, under which strive in the region and the world," the minister wrote on Twitter. He added that the response of the authorities to protests presented a one - sided, without regard to what he called the government's effort to promote freedom of expression in the last decade. "It's not fair," he said.

In a conversation with his supporters today referred Erdogan to demonstrations against him and said that this was a provocation. "Unfortunately, we have recently witnessed attacks and events which are not needed," he stated. "We see once again attempts to create a chaotic scene to threaten the government, and to pave the way for intervention which is contrary to democracy."

Erdogan went and attacked the protesters: "They are breaking windows in stores – is this democracy? They say I'm a dictator. I have nothing to say to them if that's what they say about a man who dedicated himself for the country, a man whom they call a dictator?" He blamed the crisis rather on the social networks, specifically Twitter. "There is a danger called Twitter," said Erdogan. "The best examples for lies are there. For me, social media is the greatest danger to society."

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