Police using tear gas, smoke bombs and water cannons failed to stop thousands of secularists who forged ahead to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's mausoleum in a march that highlighted the divide over secularism on the 89th anniversary of the founding of modern Turkey.
Police removed roadblocks as tens of thousands of flag-waving secularists marched to the mausoleum of Turkey's founder following clashes outside the parliament building in Ankara where Ataturk declared the republic, CNN-Turk television said.
"Some policemen kicked youths who only wanted to unfurl Turkish flags," Kemal Kilicdaroglu, head of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), told CNN-Turk. "It is very sad. How can a government that is against the republic call itself the government of the republic?"

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