(1 May 2007) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of demonstrators
2. Police jogging holding weapons, shields and gas masks UPSOUND: demonstrators chanting
3. Demonstrators arms linked together
4. Mid of police with gas masks on head UPSOUND: demonstrators chanting
5. Wide of police moving into formation, with pan to mass of demonstrators UPSOUND: demonstrators chanting
6. Police in line, with gas masks on head, a gas canister is being held
7. Wide of demonstrators and in foreground police officers with body shields march through
8. Water cannon spraying water over demonstrators with zoom in to police wading into crowd and using batons and shields
9. Close up of batons being wielded and gas being sprayed from small canisters, and demonstrators kicking -out
10. Police using spray on demonstrators
11. Wide of police confronting demonstrators with baton and shields
12. Police moving to confront demonstrators using batons UPSOUND: screaming
13: Demonstrators escaping police
14. Wide of policeman moving towards underpass with zoom to demonstrator struggling to get to feet
15. Police moving though city centre
16. Police running down city street
STORYLINE
Turkish police fired tear gas canisters on Tuesday to prevent hundreds of leftist protesters from marching to Istanbul's Taksim square to mark the 30th anniversary of a deadly May Day rally and detained more than 100 protesters.
Authorities declared the area off-limits to protesters but allowed a handful of union leaders to lay red carnations at the square, where during a May Day gathering in 1977 unidentified gunmen opened fire on tens of thousands of demonstrators. The incident left 34 people dead, most of whom were killed in a stampede.
Police, carrying riot shields and wearing gas masks, used tear gas to prevent hundreds of protesters from reaching the site. Police dispersed a group of three-hundred protesters in the Besiktas district.
Police detained more than one-hundred protesters, including two people who were carrying pistols, the Istanbul governor said.
Officials had shut down 41 schools in the area for the day, anticipating clashes with protesters or members of outlawed leftist groups who often clash with police during May Day rallies in Turkey.
Authorities were not allowing live broadcasts from the square and ordered TV trucks not to set up their satellite dishes. A television crew from CNN-Turk, however, managed to air footage through a portable satellite from the third floor of a building overlooking the square.
Around three-thousand riot police, reinforced with armoured personnel carriers, were seen on guard in the square as snipers took positions on rooftops, CNN-Turk footage showed.
Police blocked several roads in downtown Istanbul as part of their security measures, causing a traffic jam that forced the Istanbul stock market to start trading later than usual.
AP Television showed police making baton charges against protesters and spraying tear gas and using water cannon to disperse the crowds.

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