Police union Emniyet-Sen head Faruk Sezer said in a statement to Turkish TV Kanal A on Saturday that six Turkish policemen have committed suicide since the Gezi Park protests started thirteen days ago and spread across the country in the last one week.

Sezer claimed that police forces have also been suffering extensively from 120-hour consecutive working periods under severe conditions, remarking that the policemen drafted in from other cities were sleeping on benches, shields or cardboard due to lack of accommodation the state provides for them.

Sezer commented the violence witnesses in clashes area as the reflection of the violence suffered by the policemen.

Union head added that “To put the policemen in those conditions is the same as treason to the country".