[00:12.20]Crowds again converged on Taksim Square in Istanbul and there were clashes in Ankara.
[00:17.01]Mr Erdogan said protesters were marginal groups and dismissed criticism that his government is autocratic and too Islamist.
[00:24.11]Turkey has a big economy and huge economic potential.
[00:32.32]During this government's rule, the Turkish economy stepped forward, but today we see some circles,
[00:38.14]some marginal groups who have international roots and support protest in Taksim Square and Besiktas area against the government by using the wrong arguments.
[00:47.93]They chanted slogans, threw stones at shops and buildings, they demolished pavements, burnt cars, this is not democracy.
[00:56.19]As international concern grows about a possible violent overspill from Syria civil conflict into neighbouring Lebanon,
[01:03.05]Gulf Arab countries have added their voice to the intensifying debate.
[01:06.68]The Bahraini Deputy Foreign Minister said the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council will consider action against Hezbollah if it continues its arm support of President Assad's forces.
[01:16.95]Separately, the influential American Senator John McCain has called for the West to arm the rebels with heavy weapons.
[01:23.95]As David Willis reports from Washington.
[01:26.17]Speaking on CBS' Face The Nation program, Senator McCain said rebel forces in the Syrian town of Qusair were being badly outgunned by the forces of Bashar al-Assad.