Turkish police on Monday, February 19, detained some 40 protestors demonstrating against the International Monetary Fund in front of an Istanbul hotel where G20 deputy finance ministers and central bank officials were meeting, the Anatolia news agency reported.
"No to global capitalism and the IMF," the protestors chanted in front of the hotel, in the Taskisla district in the city's European quarter. After making a press statement, the protestors threw coins and eggs at the hotel building before being detained by police, the agency said.
The meeting in Istanbul, which convened Sunday with a working dinner, will determine the date, venue and agenda of the upcoming meeting of G20 financial ministers in autumn. IMF's first deputy managing director Stanley Fischer and European director Michael Deppler are also participating in the meeting.
The G20, which was created in September 1999 following the Mexican peso and Asian financial crises, brings together G7 members — Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States — with the 12 emerging market economies of Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea and Turkey. —(AFP)
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