Violent Protests Erupt After Istanbul Peace March Canceled

1. Protesters hold signs reading “peace” after a peace march was banned by authorities in the Aksaray district of Istanbul on July 26, 2015. Violence in Turkey erupted after the killing of 32 people in a suicide bombing on July 20 in the Turkish town of Suruc on the Syrian border carried out by a 20-year old Turkish man linked to ISIS. Ozan Kose / AFP – Getty Images

2. A protester shields himself from water cannons during clashes with Turkish police officers on July 26 in Istanbul’s Gazi District. Tensions across the country are high, with police routinely using water cannons to disperse nightly protests in Istanbul and other cities denouncing ISIS and the government’s policies on Syria. Bulent Kilic / AFP – Getty Images

3. A woman walks past graffiti reading “Everywhere Taksim- Goverment Resign” during clashes with Turkish riot police in the Gazi District on July 26. Turkey’s military on July 25 carried out a new wave of air and artillery strikes against Islamic State jihadists in Syria and Kurdish militants in northern Iraq, in an escalating campaign Ankara says is aimed at rooting out terror. Ozan Kose / AFP – Getty Images

4. Protesters wearing masks sit in front of a fire during clashes with Turkish riot police in the Gazi District on July 26.Ulas Yunus Tosun / EPA

5. A protester attempts to kick away a gas container during clashes with Turkish riot police in the Gazi District on July 26.Ulas Yunus Tosun / EPA

6. Protesters and members of Turkey’s People’s Democracy Party hold a banner with pictures of the victims of the Suruc bomb attack after their peace march was banned by authorities in the Aksaray district of Istanbul on July 26.Ozan Kose / AFP – Getty Images

7. Protesters protect themselves during clashes with Turkish police officers on July 26 in the Gazi District.Bulent Kilic / AFP – Getty Images

8. Protesters try to protect themselves as Turkish anti-riot police fire a water cannon to disperse a demonstration in the Gazi District, on July 26. Turkey has launched a two-pronged “anti-terror” cross-border offensive against ISIS jihadists and PKK militants after a wave of violence in the country. But the expansion of the campaign to include not just ISIS targets in Syria but PKK rebels in neighbouring northern Iraq — themselves bitterly opposed to the jihadists — has put in jeopardy a truce with the Kurdish militants that has largely held since 2013.Bulent Kilic / AFP – Getty Images

9. A protester throws a Molotov cocktail during clashes with Turkish riot police in the Gazi District, on July 26.Bulent Kilic / AFP – Getty Images

10. Protesters wait in front of a barricade during clashes with Turkish riot police in the Gazi District, on July 26.Ozan Kose / AFP – Getty Images

11. Turkish riot police take position opposite protesters holding signs reading “peace” after a peace march was banned by authorities in the Aksaray district of Istanbul on July 26.Ozan Kose / AFP – Getty Images

12. A left-wing militant wearing a “Guy Fawkes” mask stands by a burning barricade during clashes with Turkish riot police in the Gazi District, on July 26.Bulent Kilic / AFP – Getty Images

13. A protester walks by the Cemevi square (a holy place for Turkish Alevites) during clashes with Turkish riot police in the Gazi District, on July 26.Ozan Kose / AFP – Getty Images

14. A protester is silhouetted against a fire during clashes with Turkish police in the Gazi district on July 26.