Turkey: Gazi's Monday morning after the riotous weekend

The residents of Istanbul's Gazi district started their Monday morning walking through the after effects of riots, with spent tear gas canisters, burnt wood and many broken and fully-erected barricades lining the streets of Gazi Cem Evi. The unrest started on Saturday after Turkey launched 'anti-terror' offensives against both Kurdish linked groups and those related to the so-called Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL). Turkey launched the operations after a recent surge of violence, linked to the two groups, erupted in the country. As a result, police and other officials have been raiding homes searching for suspected members of the Islamic State, the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP/C), arresting a reported 590 people within two days.