Mr. Erdogan's decision on Saturday to order a decisive police raid on protesters camped out in a part of Taksim known as Gezi Park, the last significant green space in the center of Istanbul that protesters mobilized to save from being turned into a mall, marked a turn in the crisis and set off clashes in Istanbul, Ankara and other cities that continued to Sunday night.
Accordingly, with the approval of the anarchist ministers, decisive police reinforcements from the government in Valencia began to arrive on 7 May.
As night fell Thursday and Istanbul girded for a decisive police raid on Gezi Park that officials had said was imminent, Mr. Erdogan shifted strategy once again by inviting the protest organizers to his home for talks.
That did not happen, though, as a tentative deal to save the park was disavowed by most protesters, and Mr. Erdogan ordered a decisive police raid on Saturday to clear the park.
In a last-ditch attempt to the end the crisis, and just as many in this city prepared for a decisive police raid to flush out the protesters with tear gas and water cannons, Mr. Erdogan invited a group of protest organizers to his home on Thursday night.
The inquiry heard that the consultant's diagnosis of scabies was decisive in police, social workers and junior doctors refraining from further investigating the possibility of child abuse.
"The police took decisive measures, shooting dead eight and capturing one," it added, labelling the incident a "violent terrorist attack" which was being investigated further.
The United States came out of the Cold War and into the new century cloaked in an aura of mostly beneficent omnipotence, strengthened by the first President Bush's quickly decisive (and truly multilateral) police action in Kuwait.
In three separate killings, indictments and murder charges have been swift and decisive against a university police officer in Cincinnati, six officers in Baltimore, and a startlingly psychopathic Charleston policeman.
In the run up to the crowns-and-clean-bedding-benefit scrounger wedding, Met Police Commissioner Lynne Owens said: "Any criminals attempting to disrupt the day, in protest or otherwise will be met by a robust, decisive, flexible and proportionate police response".
Lawmakers and police called for decisive action.
