Journalists have once again been subjected to police violence and targeted by deliberate police attacks with pressure water, tear gas and rubber bullets during protests for Ahmet Atakan across Turkey for the last three days.

Some of the injuries reported during yesterday's protests in Ankara, İzmir and Istanbul are as follows:

- Freelance journalist Ufuk Koşar was battered by police amid clashes between protestors and police forces.

- Journalist Serdar Akınan wrote on Twitter that a policeman headbutted reporter Rabia Çelik.

- Atlas magazine photographer Umut Kaçar was injured after being hit on the head with a tear gas canister.

- Cumhuriyet daily reporter Ali Açar was dragged on the ground with policemen kicking at him.

- Cumhuriyet daily photographer Kaan Sağanak was hit by a rubber bullet fired at him from two meters away.

- Doğan News Agency photographer Uğur Can and Anatolia Agency reporter Bülent Doruk were assaulted by policemen.

- Evrensel daily İzmir correspondent Mete Ud had a temporary vision loss due to the pressure water shot from water cannon that hit him on the eye.

- BirGün newspaper reporter Berna Şahin said on Twitter that plainclothes policemen prevented her work.

 Releasing a statement condemning the use of excessive police force against journalists covering yesterday's protests, the Journalists' Association of Turkey (TGC) urged Turkish authorities to expose those responsible for the injuries of journalists and to ensure their trial and punishment.

Also protesting the police violence against journalists, the Press Council commented the intervention in journalists' work as an attack against the freedom of the press.

The Council called on relevant authorities to respect journalists' freedom of information and to provide necessary conditions to make sure that journalists can perform their work freely.

The Journalists Union of Turkey (TGS) has also called on all officials, Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç and Interior Minister Muammer Güler in particular, to ensure the ending of the police attacks on media workers.