Tear gas

Students tear-gassed in school bus near southern town

PRESEVO -- 17 high school students in Presevo reported to the local health-care center late on Thursday after tear gas was used in a school bus.

The medical institution's director, Mitat Sahiti, said that all students were doing well after receiving treatment and were sent home after midnight, RTS reported.

Serbian-origin Swedish center back Alexander Milosevic, the new arrival of Turkey?s Be?ikta? football club, has said this was not his first time in the country, as he tasted the police tear gas in the summer of 2013 during a U-21 national game at Istanbul?s Kas?mpa?a stadium near the core of the Gezi Park protests.

Prosecutors have accused students who brandished bread during a demonstration at Denizli?s Pamukkale University to mourn young Gezi victim Berkin Elvan after his death in March 2014 of "provocation," in the indictment as part of the investigation into the protests.

Amnesty International has launched a petition campaign via change.org to stop South Korea exporting some 1.9 million tear gas canisters to Turkey.

The "Do Not Send Gas to Us" campaign states that the canisters are currently set to be handed to Turkey in mid-January.  

The forensic report on the 15-year-old teenager Berkin Elvan who died following a long period in a coma he sustained after being hit by a police tear gas canister during the Gezi protests was released on Dec. 23, nine months after his passing away.

The trial into a policeman who hailed Gezi victim Berkin Elvan’s death on Facebook started Dec. 23, with the lawyer representing the victim’s family labeling the officer as a “pathological case who takes pleasure in the death of a 14-year-old.”

Police used tear gas to intervene in a group of main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) youth branch members on Nov. 23, while they were trying to make a press statement at Istanbul’s flashpoint Gezi Park.

The Council of State has opened the way for a preliminary investigation against Istanbul Gov. Hüseyin Avni Mutlu after he accused 17-year-old Dilan Alp of being a member of “marginal groups” and throwing Molotov cocktails after she was hit by a tear-gas canister on May 1, 2013.