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Turkish Police detain 80 students amid housing protests

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ERZURUM, TURKEY - APRIL 05 : Immigrants are seen at a police station in Erzurum, Turkey on April 05, 2018. Illegal immigrants are brought to Provincial Directorates Of Migration Management for the registration or deportation processes. Number of illegal immigrants caught in Turkey's Erzurum reach 13,400, approximately three times more than last year's statistics. Mostly Afghan and Pakistani people flee from their countries for unemployment and terror reasons, using any possible way into Turkey. Illegal immigrants get caught up in situations where they are dropped off from trucks, buses, minibuses, cabs and automobiles on the highways by the human traffickers they have paid for in different cities of Turkey's Eastern Anatolia Region before even reaching their destinations. Fahrettin Gok / Anadolu Agency

Turkish Police took action against students in the wake of series of protests against the lack of affordable housing, local media reported on Tuesday.
Around 80 students were taken into custody in Istanbul and the coastal metropolis of Izmir, according to the report.
The Istanbul governorate said in a statement that 28 people were arrested on the Asian side of the city, all of whom had since been released.
The governorate added that 17 women and 11 men had been taken into custody because they had refused to break up an “illegal” protest in spite of being asked to do so.
With rents rising in Turkey, students have been demanding affordable housing by sleeping in parks for several days.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sharply criticised the students protest on Monday, describing them as so-called students.
The famous Gezi protests, which were critical of the government, were sparked by a controversial construction project in Istanbul in 2013.
They were brutally suppressed by the government.

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