Clashes broke out outside an Ankara courthouse on Monday (October 28) during a hearing of a police officer charged with shooting a 26-year-old Turkish man dead in the capital Ankara in early June during Gezi Park-related protests.
Several hundred protesters gathered outside the courthouse to denounce the "slow process" and clashes broke out when the demonstrators were not allowed to enter the courthouse.
Riot police fired smoke grenades and water cannons to disperse the protesters trying to break the windows of the courthouse to enter the building.
Several protesters were wounded during the clashes, private Dogan News Agency reported.
Ethem Sarisuluk was shot on June 1 when a police officer opened fire into the air as protesters hurled stones at him.
Sarisuluk's family filed a complaint and urged the government to launched an immediate investigation, but the slow process triggered criticism among the protesters.
Four people were killed and about 7,500 were wounded in the June crackdown, according to the Turkish Medical Association. It largely ended when police cleared a protest camp on the square on June 15.
The summer protests presented one of the biggest challenges to Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's rule since his Islamist-rooted AK Party first came to power a decade ago, spiralling out of a demonstration in late May against plans to redevelop an Istanbul park into a broader show of defiance against his perceived authoritarianism.
The demonstrations at Middle East Technical University which has been going on for a couple of months, comes just six months before local elections, the start of a voting cycle which also includes a presidential election next August - in which Erdogan is expected to run - and parliamentary polls in 2015.
