Nineteen-year-old Ali İsmail Korkmaz died on Wednesday at Osmangazi University Hospital in Eskişehir. He suffered a brain hemorrhage after being attacked by a group of people as he was escaping police in Eskişehir during a Gezi Park demonstration on June 2. Korkmaz was a student at Anadolu University.
The death toll from the Gezi Park incidents has risen to five with Korkmaz’s death. Other people who died in connection to the incidents are demonstrators Ethem Sarısülük, Abdullah Cömert, Mehmet Ayvalıtaş and police officer Mustafa Sarı.
The protests, fuelled by anger over the government’s plan to create a replica of an Ottoman-era military barracks in place of Gezi Park in İstanbul’s Taksim quarter, have become a general condemnation of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who protesters consider to have grown authoritarian in his 10 years in power.