Istanbul today — before police crackdown
1. A protest camp at Gezi Park on June 15, 2013 in Istanbul, Turkey. (Lam Yik Fei/Getty Images)
2. A cat passes by sleeping protesters at the Gezi Park of the Taksim Square in Istanbul early Saturday, June 15, 2013. (Thanassis Stavrakis/AP)
3. Protesters clean the entrance to Gezi park in Istanbul’s Taksim Square June 15, 2013. (Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)
4. A man walks in front of t-shirts for sale with text reading ‘We are all ‘vandals’ ‘, in reference to the term used by Turkish Prime Minister to describe some of the demonstrators who participated in recent protests, in Istanbul’s Taksim Square, on June 15, 2013. (Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images)
5. A man wearing a safety helmet and a gas mask plays a cello in Istanbul’s Taksim Square on June 15, 2013. (Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images)
6. Activists chat in front of their tents at Gezi Park in Istanbul, Turkey on June 15, 2013. (Erdem Sahin/EPA)
7. A protester wearing a Guy Fawkes mask is pictured through a damaged car as he lies on an overturned vehicle at the entrance of Gezi park in central Istanbul June 15, 2013. (Murad Sezer/Reuters)
8. A man holds a flower outside a camp at Gezi Park as hundreds of protestors gather again on June 15, 2013 in Istanbul, Turkey. (Lam Yik Fei/Getty Images)
9. A Turkish riot policeman holds a weapon while standing in Taksim Square in Istanbul on June 15, 2013. (Vadim Ghirda/AP)
10. Protesters sit on the steps of Gezi Park of Taksim Square in Istanbul on June 15, 2013. (Thanassis Stavrakis/AP)
















