A petrol bomb petrol bomb explodes on a police water cannon truck during clashes in Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Hundreds of police in riot gear forced through barricades in Istanbul's central Taksim Square early Tuesday, pushing many of the protesters who had occupied the square for more than a week into a nearby park. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)
A petrol bomb petrol bomb explodes on a police water cannon truck during clashes in Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Hundreds of police in riot gear forced through barricades in Istanbul's central Taksim Square early Tuesday, pushing many of the protesters who had occupied the square for more than a week into a nearby park. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)
Turkey has been rocked by violent clashes bewteen riot police battling protesters who have been occupying Taksim Square and its adjacent Gezi Park in the country's most severe anti-government protests in decades.