(23 May 2014) A large crowd of demonstrators gathered in Istanbul on Friday for the funeral of a bystander killed the previous day amid clashes between police and protesters.
As mourners carried the coffin of 30-year-old Ugur Kurt, protesters voiced their anger at both the police and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling party, AKP.
Police fought with more than a dozen youths who hurled stones and firebombs on Thursday.
Kurt - described as a bystander and not a demonstrator - was shot and died.
A second man died on Friday.
Reacting to the deaths, Erdogan said he was "amazed" by the patience of the police.
The protests focused on the 301 deaths in the coal-mine disaster last week, and the death of a 15-year-old boy, Berkin Elvan.
Elvan was hit in the head by a police tear-gas canister in disturbances last year and died in March without regaining consciousness.
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