(AP-Washington Post) Police in Istanbul detained 154 people in Saturday's protests marking the one-year anniversary of last year's nationwide anti-government demonstrations. Protesters had defied a warning by Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan to keep away from Istanbul's Taksim Square, the center of last year's protests against what demonstrators view as Erdogan's increasingly authoritarian rule.
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