Thousands rally against Turkish Govt

Hundreds of thousands of secular Turks demonstrated on the seafront of Izmir, Turkey’s third-largest city today, fearful that the Islamic-rooted government is conspiring to impose religious values on society.

Police deployed thousands of officers, a day after a bomb at a local market killed one person and injured 14 others. There was no claim of responsibility for the attack, nor evidence that it was linked to the demonstration.