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A Turkish prosecutor has demanded 18 years in prison for a private over the fatal shooting of 19-year-old Medeni Y?ld?r?m during a protest against the building of a new police post in Diyarbak?r's Lice district in June 2013.

A columnist of an Islamist newspaper in Turkey, which recently confused The Beatles with Turkish high school students after misunderstanding a protest poster, has said the daily is proud of its ignorance about the British music legends.

?Say we do not know who The Beatles are... For us, this is a matter of pride, not ignorance,? daily Vahdet columnist Fatih Akkaya wrote on April 29.

An Islamist newspaper in Turkey has confused The Beatles with Turkish high school students after misunderstanding a poster calling for people to take to the streets on May Day.

"The United June Movement [BHH] has undertaken a fresh provocation for May Day," daily Vahdet claimed on April 27, referring to an umbrella organization that took part in the Gezi Park protests in 2013.

Last year, on this very day, hundreds of thousands of Turkish people hit the streets to protest the security forces’ brutal crackdown on environmentalist activists’ peaceful protest against the government’s plans to demolish a symbolic park, Gezi Park, at Istanbul’s historically important Taksim Square.