Turkish moms are at the Gezi park Istanbul tonight to protect their sons and daughters from a possible interference of the police… They are building a chain of flesh around them!!!!

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On the 15th day of Gezi Park resistance Turkish riot police attack through barricades firing tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon at hundreds of protesters to clear Taksim Square early in the morning. Police remove banners on AKM building and Ataturk Sculpture while bulldozers and rubbish trucks clear up the barricades.

Photos by Adnan Onur Acar (NarPhotos)

Mehmet Güleryüz comments on the Protests in Istanbul from Mahalla Festival on Vimeo.

Turkish artist Mehmet Güleryüz sees the protests in Istanbul and other parts of Turkey as a fundamental fight for civil rights and an answer to the despotic style of Primeminister Erdoğan.

The Project Biennial of Contemporary Art, D-0 ARK Underground takes place for the second time in Konjic, a small Bosnian town not far from Sarajevo, in a Atomic shelter named ARK, codename Istanbul, which Yugoslav army built between 1953 and 1979.

The title of the upcoming Istanbul Biennial 2013 Anne, ben barbar miyim? (Mom, am I Barbarian?).

The owner of a hairstylist in Nişantaşı, Istanbul, modified the title of the 13th Istanbul Biennial ‘Anne, ben barbar miyim?’ (‘Mom, am I Barbarian?’) to decorate his hairdresser shop ‘Hair Mafia’ to ‘Anne, ben berber miyim?’ (‘Mom, am I a Hairdresser?’) as an advertisment for a new hair style.

The sun was high in the sky, but it was not as warming my skin as the day before, while I was walking down Kumbaraca Yokusu. I would explore Tophane today. No, not like Mathias Poisson. Mathias Poisson explored Tophane first and made a map afterwards. I was holding a map already in my hands. The map of Tophane Art Walk. My first goal supposed to be DEPO. I wanted to see Poisson’s Tophane. DEPO was showing a huge map and a little laboratory. That was lovely.

I observed the little groups of people walking around at this sunny, windy day, strolling up and down on Bogaz Kesen Street, getting in and out the galleries, asking questions and finding somehow a way getting into art through this walk. I saw faces reflecting big question marks and bright inspiration, while they were holding maps in their hands- they started thinking. 

One Map, 25 places: Tophane Art Walk.