Ataturk in Taksim…

About a week ago, when I was trying to reach my hotel in Taksim Square, I got caught in the middle of a protest–where police were using rubber bullets and tear gas to beat back the protesters. When I momentarily caught my breath, after escaping from the center of the action, I took this photo of a woman waving a flag of Ataturk and watching the mayhem unfold from the periphery. But today, instead of cracking down on protesters, police in Turkey are experiencing a crackdown of their own…