Posts Tagged ‘Taksim Square’

Saturday Night

Istanbul the night before the second anniversary of the Gezi protests

 

 

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Taksim Square and Gezi Park, in addition to numerous other roads and streets, have been closed to the public on the second anniversary of the anti-government Gezi protests.

Earth Table – Istanbul

Thousands of protesters gathering to built an Earth Table from Galatasaray to Taksim Square, Istanbul. The Iftar is a collective form of breaking the fasting in Ramadan. While Turkish police blocked the entrance of Taksim Square and warned people to leave from the area the Earth Table was bşooming as a symbol for peace and coexistence of different life models.

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Photos by Saner Şen / NarPhotos