Amanda Rivkin
Turkey Gezi Uprising: turkeyuprising20

ISTANBUL, TURKEY. Turkish children light a paper lantern at a protest in Taksim Square after a week of protests led to police being barricaded out of and withdrawing from the square as it transforms increasingly into a free, carnival-like zone in Istanbul, Turkey on June 6, 2013. 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.