Demonstrations in Turkey, the Chicago League of Lady Arm Wrestlers, a safe return from space | March 11
The death of Turkish boy Berkin Elvan renews protests, ladies arm wrestle in Chicago for charity, an American and two Russians return from space, and more in today’s daily brief.
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- The coffin of Berkin Elvan is carried on March 11, 2014, in Istanbul. Berkin Elvan, who has been in a coma since June 2013 after being struck in the head by a gas canister during a police crackdown on protesters, died March 11, his family announced via Twitter. The young teenager, the eighth person to be killed in the Gezi Park protests, went into a coma after sustaining a head injury from a gas canister as he went to buy bread during a police crackdown in IstanbulÕs Okmeydanõ neighborhood last June. Elvan has since become one of the prime symbols violence faced by protesters throughout the nationwide Gezi demonstrations. (Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Berkin Elvan’s sister Ozge (C) reacts as his coffin approaches the Okmeydani cemevi, an Alevi place of worship, in Istanbul March 11, 2014. Police and protesters clashed in Turkey’s two biggest cities on Tuesday following the death of the 15-year-old boy who suffered a head injury during anti-government demonstrations last summer. Elvan, then aged 14, got caught up in street battles in Istanbul between police and protesters on June 16 after going out to buy bread for his family. He was struck in the head by a tear-gas canister and went into a coma. Alevis are a religious minority in mainly Sunni Muslim Turkey who espouse a liberal version of Islam and have often been at odds with Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s Islamist-rooted government. (Osman Orsal/Reuters)
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- People protect themselves behind a trash can as anti-riot police fires water cannon to disperse thousands of people demonstrating following the death of Berkin Elvan, a teenage boy wounded in mass anti-government demonstrations last year, on March 11, 2014 near the Middle East Technical University (ODTU) in Ankara. Elvan’s story — he spent 269 days in a coma — gripped the nation and became a symbol of the heavy-handed tactics used by police to reign in the biggest demonstrations against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan since he came to power in 2003. (Adem Altan/AFP/Getty Images ORG)
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- Emilia Garcia (R) helps her colleagues Megan Tormey (L) and Servia Rindfleish prepare their costumes at the Chicago League of Lady Arm Wrestlers event in Chicago, March 8, 2014. The event was put on to raise money for the Sideshow Theatre Company and for charity. Picture taken March 8, 2014. (Jim Young/Reuters)
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- Emilia Garcia (L) reacts after winning her match against Erin Stevens at the Chicago League of Lady Arm Wrestlers event in Chicago, March 9, 2014. The event was put on to raise money for the Sideshow Theatre Company and for charity. Picture taken March 9, 2014. (Jim Young/Reuters)
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- Former ISS commander Oleg Kotov (C) and flight engineers Sergei Ryazansky (L) and Michael Hopkins from NASA sit in chairs outside the Soyuz TMA-10M capsule shortly after they landed in a remote area southeast of the town of Zhezkazgan in central Kazakhstan, March 11, 2014. An American astronaut and two Russians who carried a Sochi Olympic torch into open space landed safely and on time on Tuesday in Kazakhstan, defying bad weather and ending their 166-day mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Inside the capsule were former ISS commander Oleg Kotov and flight engineers Sergei Ryazansky and Michael Hopkins from NASA. The trio launched together into space on September 25. (Bill Ingalls/NASA/Handout via Reuters)
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- Sam Twiston-Davies on The New One jumps the final fence of the Champion Hurdle Challenge Trophy at the Cheltenham Festival horse racing meet in Gloucestershire, western England March 11, 2014. (Eddie Keogh/Reuters)
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- A boxer and his trainer practice before sunrise on Sydney’s Bondi Beach, March 11, 2014. Australia’s most famous beach is the venue for several outdoor bootcamp-style classes throughout the year, many beginning in the early hours of the morning. (Jason Reed/Reuters)
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- People pray for victims of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami as Tokyo Electric Power Co’s (TEPCO) tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is seen in the background at Namie town, Fukushima prefecture March 11, 2014. Tuesday marks the third year anniversary of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands and set off a nuclear crisis. (Toru Hanai/Reuters)
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- Students take shelter under desks during an earthquake simulation exercise at an elementary school in Tokyo March 11, 2014. Schools in Chiyoda ward, one of the central wards in Tokyo, held an annual evacuation drill to prepare for a major earthquake in Tokyo, on the day of the third anniversary of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands. About 5,000 students participated in the exercises in Chiyoda ward, the official says. (Yuya Shino/Reuters)
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- The picture of a young woman is seen at a memorial site for the victims of the March 11 train bombings at the same spot where a train was bombed ten years ago outside Madrid’s Atocha station March 11, 2014. The Spanish capital marked on Tuesday the tenth anniversary of the Madrid train bombings that killed191 people and injured more than 1,500. (Susana Vera/Reuters)
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- A woman visits the interior of the Madrid train bombing memorial at Atocha station, in Madrid March 11, 2014. The Spanish capital on Tuesday marked the tenth anniversary of the Madrid train bombings that killed 191 people and injured more than 1,500. (Susana Vera/Reuters)
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- A passenger jet flies past the setting sun in Shanghai March 11, 2014. China has deployed 10 satellites to help in the massive air and sea search for a missing Malaysian airliner, the People’s Liberation Army Daily said on Tuesday. (Aly Song/Reuters)
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- A Venezuelan woman living in Chile, whose mouth is taped, takes part in a protest against the visit of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro, who will attend the investiture of Chile’s President-elect Michelle Bachelet in Santiago March 10, 2014. Bachelet will take office as Chile’s president on Tuesday. (Cristobal Saavedra/Reuters)
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- Anti-government protesters cover from teargas during a protest at Altamira square in Caracas March 10, 2014. As violent protests in Venezuela alienate moderates in the opposition and show no signs of toppling President Nicolas Maduro, the socialist leader’s call for talks is deepening divisions between his rivals. The country’s worst civil unrest in a decade has killed at least 20 people, including supporters of both sides and members of the security forces, since early last month. (Tomas Bravo/Reuters)
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- A helicopter flies over Afghan residents as they attend the burial of Afghan Vice-President Marshal Mohammad Qasim Fahim, formerly one of the country’s most feared warlords, at a ceremony on a hilltop in Kabul on March 11, 2014. Afghan Vice-President Marshal Mohammad Qasim Fahim died of natural causes after a turbulent life that reflected the country’s recent past. Fahim, a leader of the Tajik ethnic minority, was senior vice-president under President Hamid Karzai, who will step down at elections next month as US-led combat forces pull out of Afghanistan after 13 years of fighting the Taliban. (Wakil Kohsar/AFP/Getty Images)
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