Mr Erdogan addressed the crowds from an open-top bus, as they
chanted his name
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan has called for protests across the country to end immediately.
At Istanbul airport he told crowds of supporters who were welcoming him home
from a four-day North Africa tour that the protests bordered on illegality.But as he spoke, thousands of anti-government protesters were also rallying in Istanbul's Taksim Square.
The unrest began as a local protest over a park in Istanbul but spiralled into nationwide demonstrations.
'Common sense' An estimated 10,000 supporters of Mr Erdogan's AKP party descended on the airport to welcome him home in the early hours of Friday.
Standing alongside his wife and government ministers on an open-top bus, he told the crowd: "I call for an immediate end to the demonstrations, which have lost their democratic credentials and turned into vandalism."
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