Thousands of Turkish secularists protested angrily outside a court near Istanbul on Thursday (December 13) against the handling of a trial of nearly 300 people charged with attempting to overthrow Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's Islamist-rooted government. Security forces wielded batons and fired pepper spray to keep crowds behind barricades in front of the courthouse at the sprawling Silivri prison complex, where dozens of the defendants have been jailed for much of the four-year-old trial.
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