The Turkish authorities say Ugur Kurt, 30, was not involved in the protests.

 

Police used tear gas and water cannon¹ and fired live bullets into the air to try to disperse²（分散） a crowd angry at last week's mining disaster that killed 300. 

 

Prime Minister Erdogan's decade-long rule has come under pressure since nationwide anti-government protests broke out in Istanbul a year ago. 

 

The man was taken to hospital after being hit by a bullet but doctors were unable to save him. 

 

"We have not been able to save Ugur Kurt," Istanbul governor Huseyin Avni Mutlu wrote on Twitter, several hours after the 30-year-old victim was brought to hospital.

 

The BBC's Selin Girit says a picture of another wounded man lying in the street has gone viral on social networking sites in Turkey, with people posting the same word alongside it: "Enough."

 

The disturbances³ began when about a dozen people began chanting slogans about a youth killed in previous clashes with police and the Soma mine disaster last week that killed 301 people.

 

Police fired tear gas and water cannon at the gathering⁴ group in the Okmeydani district of Istanbul, who responded by throwing rocks and petrol bombs.

 

Video footage shown on Turkish television news channels shows Ugur Kurt collapsing⁵ to the ground in a pool of blood.

 

He was reported to have been attending a funeral inside the complex of a cemevi, the house of worship for Turkey's Alevi religious minority, close to the protests. 

 

Mr Kurt died of his wounds after doctors at the Okmeydani Research Hospital in central Istanbul had performed surgery in an effort to save his life, officials said. 

 

Around 400 demonstrators staged a sit-in outside the hospital, chanting: "Murderer state has taken another life." 

 

Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said prosecutors⁶ would investigate the incident.

 

"If one of our citizens, who has nothing to do with the events, is injured by a stray bullet fired by a policeman, I would like to see anyone who is involved in this incident immediately be brought to account," Mr Arinc said. 

 

Police and protesters continued to clash late on Thursday in Okmeydani, a working-class district in central Istanbul that is home to many Alevis and often attracts anti-government protests.

 

A 15-year-old boy, Berkin Elvan, died in March after nine months in a coma⁷ after sustaining a head wound during an anti-government protest in Okmeydani. Thousands clashed with police in Istanbul when he was buried.

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