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Bulent Arinc, Turkey’s deputy prime minister, said on Tuesday that the government’s violent crackdown on protesters in the last few days was “wrong and unjust,” a stark contrast to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan who has called the demonstrators looters and extremists. Video and photographs from Turkey show just how chaotic and violent things have become. A young Turkish student describes to theNational Posthow a peaceful sit-in to protest plans to uproot trees in Istanbul’s main Taksim Square turned into a nationwide revolt against the government.