Police in the Turkish Mediterranean city of Antalya detained dozens of people on Monday during a series of protests denouncing a G-20 summit that is underway in a nearby seaside resort, although the demonstrations were mostly peaceful. Security is tight during two-day meeting that was expected to be dominated by discussions about how the G-20 nations will respond to the deadly Paris attacks, claimed by the ISIS group.
Demonstrators were being kept miles away from the venue at a secluded seaside resort some 40 kilometres from Antalya city. A group of some 500 youths belonging to a Turkish nationalist association gathered in the city, holding up card-board effigies of US President Barack Obama and denouncing US interventions in the Middle East.
Police allowed the group to march briefly only after they agreed to leave the effigies behind.