Having killed four people and wounded thousands of others during Gezi Park protests, Turkish police continue their operations targeting people who joined Gezi protests during the month of June.

Police teams have carried out simultaneous house raids in five provinces early Friday morning in the scope of Gezi operations.

The İzmir-centered operations ended up with the detention of at least 15 people in İzmir, Ankara, İstanbul, Manisa and Batman.

27 people had been taken into custody in the police operations on 20 and 24 June. 24 among them were arrested and sent to prison for alleged crimes they are accused of having committed during the protests.

Thousands of people have been taken into custody since the beginning of Gezi protests which began in Istanbul's main Taksim Square and soon spread across the country as tens of thousands took to the streets in almost all cities to protest against the ruling AKP government's increasing repression of the people and its restrictive policies.

Four people were killed, some ten thousand were injured and 12 people lost their sight as a result of the brutal police violence protestors were subject to during the countrywide protests.

Perpetrators of the murder of four people were subjected to no legal process as Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan continues to protect the security forces against protestors. "My police did what was necessary" he often said, seeming determined to maintain his attitude that sides with the trial and punishment of demonstrators instead.