Dozens arrested in swoop on Turkey protesters

ISTANBUL: Turkish police detained dozens of people at their homes and raided two media offices on Tuesday in a coordinated oper-ation across the country to clamp down on nearly three weeks of mass anti-government unrest, lawyers and local reports said.

Officers raided the homes of around 90 members of the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP), a small leftist group that has been active in Istanbul’s Gezi Park protest at the center of the nationwide protest movement, the Istanbul bar association said.