Protesters play soccer as police forces guards the Taksim Square in Istanbul on Thursday, June 13, 2013. Turkey's government on Wednesday offered a first concrete gesture aimed at ending nearly two weeks of street protests, proposing a referendum on a development project in Istanbul that triggered demonstrations that have become the biggest challenge to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's 10-year tenure. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
Protesters play soccer as police forces guards the Taksim Square in Istanbul on Thursday, June 13, 2013. Turkey's government on Wednesday offered a first concrete gesture aimed at ending nearly two weeks of street protests, proposing a referendum on a development project in Istanbul that triggered demonstrations that have become the biggest challenge to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's 10-year tenure. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
A protester relaxes on a bench as a portrait of Mustafa Kamal Ataturk, founder of the modern Turkey, is hanged in the background at the Gezi park of Taksim Square in Istanbul on Thursday, June 13, 2013. Turkey's government on Wednesday offered a first concrete gesture aimed at ending nearly two weeks of street protests, proposing a referendum on a development project in Istanbul that triggered demonstrations that have become the biggest challenge to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's 10-year tenure. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
A municipality worker cleans the steps of Taksim Square under a barricade in Istanbul on Thursday, June 13, 2013. Turkey's government on Wednesday offered a first concrete gesture aimed at ending nearly two weeks of street protests, proposing a referendum on a development project in Istanbul that triggered demonstrations that have become the biggest challenge to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's 10-year tenure. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
Protesters chant anti-government slogans, silhouetted by the light of flares in Taksim square, in Istanbul, Turkey, late Wednesday, June 12, 2013. Turkey's government on Wednesday offered a first concrete gesture aimed at ending nearly two weeks of street protests, proposing a referendum on a development project in Istanbul that triggered demonstrations that have become the biggest challenge to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's 10-year tenure. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) ? A lawyer says a protester injured during clashes with Turkish riot police has died, raising the death toll to five from the two-week standoff between police and activists that has challenged Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government.
The protests centered on Istanbul's Taksim Square looked set to continue Thursday despite a referendum offer over a contested development plan presented a day earlier by Erdogan's party.
Family lawyer Sema Aksoy said 26-year-old Ether Sarisuluk ? who had been on a life support for days ? was pronounced dead Thursday. He was believed to have been hit in the head by a tear gas canister during protests in Ankara on June 1.
A human rights group says thousands of people were treated for injuries in protests that began May 31.
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