Veteran Communist organizers had long-runnng experience with police at the square

Evidence

The organized left, including the Turkish Communist Party (TKP), was there. Unlike most of the crowd, the TKP had been fighting with cops here ever since they threw their bodies against the 2003 attack on Iraq, as US fighter planes used Turkish airspace for the invasion. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 343

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Organized leftists helped a mining rebellion outgrow police control — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 191

Broader Connections

• Organized leftists helped a mining rebellion outgrow police control #corroborates (0.75) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 191