Now, there are only the streets. And the streets are violent.
By arresting journalists, lawyers, and doctors who were helping protesters, Erdogan has shown that any semblance of a liberal democracy was nothing more than a thin veil over authoritarianism.
Erdogan’s government have threatened to use the army to suppress further demonstrations, as trade unions strike in support of the protesters, and the police continue to use violence in an attempt to quell the unrest across the country.
Calm swept into Gezi Park last night as thousands of protesters listened in silence as German pianist Davide Martello and Turkish musician Yiğit Özatalay played for them.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has issued a “final warning” to protesters to leave Gezi Park in Istanbul, following the lrage-scale police operation that cleared adjacent Taksim Square on Tuesday night.