Turkish PM again calls for end to protests

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has dismissed plans to build a shopping centre at the controversial Gezi Park and calls for an end to the more than 10-day protest campaign, Hürriyet Daily News reports

The head of the Turkish cabinet made such a statement during his speech at the Ministry of European Affairs at an Istanbul conference on June 7.

Erdoğan repeated his willingness to discuss thedemocratic rights of the Turkish people. 

“The shopping mall is not possible in the Artillery Barracks anyway, given the measures. We told them that we may build a city museum instead, and a green area that would be far better than the current park. We also wanted to turn the Atatürk Culture Center into an opera building,” the prime minister is quoted as saying by Hürriyet Daily News.