Thousands of police have had (leaf) their leave canceled (in) and the city governor has announced (a) that large parts of the city will be closed down ahead of(f) May Day celebrations. Three of Turkey’s largest trade union confederations have said they will challenge a government ban on celebrating May Day in T square in the heart of Istanbul.

       Prime minister S condemned the unions. Mr. E says he believes there was what he called ill intention behind this request. He says it’s a request geared toward(s) disrupting public order. The Prime Minister says there are alternative locations in Istanbul to (attack some) T square to celebrate May Day.

      (The) But T square has major (similar portents train jauntiness) symbolic importance to trade unionists. In 1977, 37 people were killed when (an) unknown gunmen opened fire on (the) a crowd of thousands of hundreds of people who were celebrating May Day.

       T, who (was) attended the 1977 protest(s) remembered the panic that (all) erupted (since) as the gunfire rang out. “We saw people shooting there. I could see them quite clearly. There was massive panic there, and shooting there, a lot of people died.”

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Ring out: v 想起

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       小词：union，gear，symbolic。