It was the sixth day since a peaceful sit-in had begun in Gezi Park in Istanbul to protect the last remaining green space in the center of the city. Protests had spread throughout the country due to the excessive use of force by police, including tear gas, water cannons, and plastic bullets agai..
Ufuk Adak
Ufuk Adak is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Cincinnati. He is currently writing his dissertation on prisons in Izmir and Salonica in the late Ottoman Empire.