welcome back. what started as peaceful demonstrations in istanbul has led to clashes in other major turkish cities. urging the turkish government to refrain from violence against the protesters. we are concerned by the reports of excessive use of force by police. we obviously hope there will be a full investigation of those incidents and full restraint from the police force with respect to those kinds of incidents. joining mow now by phone in istanbul is financial times correspondent daniel domby. thank you for your time. reporter: my pleasure. first, let s backtrack so we can understand how we got to these fourth day of protests. reporter: protests began, as you said, with demonstration about the park. i was in istanbul s main square