The Turkish authorities widened their crackdown on the antigovernment protest movement on Sunday, taking aim not just at the demonstrators themselves, but also at the medics who treat their injuries, the business owners who shelter them and the foreign news media flocking here to cover a growing political crisis. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/17/world/europe/turkey.html?pagewanted=2&hpw  In some of his toughest language yet, Prıme Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called his opponents terrorists and made clear that any hope of a compromise to end the crisis was gone. The prime minister has suggested the foreign news media is part of a foreign plot, along with financial speculators and terrorists, to topple his government.
One foreign photographer documenting the clashes Saturday night said a police officer had torn his gas mask off him while in a cloud of tear gas, and forced him to clear his memory card of photographs. Some doctors and nurses who treated protesters were detained by security forces on Sunday.  Owners of luxury hotels near Taksim Square who had provided refuge to protesters fleeing the chaos of the police raid were said to be inked to terrorism.

Erdogan supporters chanted, “Go gas them, Captain! Break their hands!”

Saving the park from a government plan to replace it with a commercial replica of an Ottoman-era army barracks was the first cause of the protesters. But the movement quickly attracted other disillusioned Turks, who have chafed at what they viewed as the government’s rising authoritarianism, and the movement evolved in to a broader challenge to Mr. Erdogan’s government.