Police have cleared Istanbul's Gezi Park of protesters and have taken over Taksim Square, a CNN team there says.
The demonstrations began in late May in protest of government plans to level a park in Istanbul. But many demonstrators say they now are protesting against authoritarian policies of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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