Turkey Gezi Uprising: turkeyuprising04

ISTANBUL, TURKEY. A young woman is seen smoking a cigarette in the middle of the tent city in Gezi Park adjacent to Taksim Square where ongoing protests against the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his policies a week after demonstrators forced police to withdraw from the square have lead to a carnival-like sit-in on June 8, 2013. A week of protests led to police being barricaded out of and withdrawing from Istanbul's Taksim Square as it transforms increasingly into a free zone; the crisis, which began over construction of a park and plans to reconstruct Ottoman barracks and a shopping mall, has evolved into Turkey's biggest political crisis in decades as Turks express frustration with the current AK Party, Justice and Development Party and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

ISTANBUL, TURKEY. A young woman is seen smoking a cigarette in the middle of the tent city in Gezi Park adjacent to Taksim Square where ongoing protests against the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his policies a week after demonstrators forced police to withdraw from the square have lead to a carnival-like sit-in on June 8, 2013. A week of protests led to police being barricaded out of and withdrawing from Istanbul's Taksim Square as it transforms increasingly into a free zone; the crisis, which began over construction of a park and plans to reconstruct Ottoman barracks and a shopping mall, has evolved into Turkey's biggest political crisis in decades as Turks express frustration with the current AK Party, Justice and Development Party and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.