Taksim Dayanışması, a solidarity group that advocated for the preservation of Taksim Gezi Park, submitted its demands to Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç. The group demanded an official statement that confirmed the cancellation of all construction efforts in the park.

There are thousands of people in Gezi Park and Taksim Square. They are bringing their struggle to a new day as they are saluting the resistance under the trees carved with names of who has lost lives.

Abdullah Cömert, a 22 year old activist who joined Gezi Park resistance protests in the southern city of Hatay, was killed yesterday.

Releasing a statement at Gezi Park in downtown Istanbul, Taksim Solidarity group declared that they were against Topçu Barracks or any building that would harm the park, and demanded all detainees to be released.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is leaving on a trip to Tunisia, Morocco and Algiers - countries that overthrew their leaders after massive rebellions. For the upcoming 4 days, PM is expected to hold talks on regional and international events.

The resistance in Taksim Gezi Park reached day 6 today with thousands of demonstrators flowing through downtown Istanbul. A festive sprit is in the air.

Ankara Chamber of Medicines announced that today’s police violence left 414 protestors injured in Ankara with 15 in serious condition due to head traumas.

Thousands of demonstrators who were protesting against the planned construction of a shopping mall in the last remaining green spot in downtown have finally set foot back to Taksim Gezi Park after the police withdrawal. Scores of people are marching towards Taksim Square from different parts of Istanbul.

The resistance that Taksim Gezi Park protestors initiated spread across Turkey. Police attacks and detentions have been reported from Ankara, İzmir and Eskişehir. People are out in the streets.

Parliamentary deputies Sırrı Süreyya Önder and Sezgin Tanrıkulu were hospitalized due to injuries related to gas bomb shell wounds. A woman from Egypt was reported to be on brain surgery. A wounded police officer and director Sinan Çetin have been protested at a hospital.

Police gassed and water cannoned hundreds of demonstrators assembled in downtown Istanbul to protest the destruction of Taksim Gezi Park. Police violence enraged Istanbulites.

Istanbul 6th Administration Court suspended the Topçu Barracks Project - publicly known as the planned construction of a shopping mall at Taksim Gezi Park in downtown Istanbul.

Police violence against Taksim Gezi Park protestors left at least 100 injured and the toll is on the rise, Istanbul Chamber of Medicines said in a statement.

Police raided Taksim Gezi Park early morning, casting tear gas bombs and allegedly burning tents of protestors who were staying overnight to stop the planned the project to turn the park into a shopping mall.

Yıldız Technical University Security staff allegedly veiled a banner ad that depicted a woman in stockings. University president protested the media coverage on the issue, saying that it was a provocation in the course of finals week.

Ceren Kalı, sister and advocate of Utku Kalı who has been charged with leaking the Reyhanlı twin blasts cables to Redhack, said that Kalı was arrested only because he was on his shift as the aforementioned documents arrived to the military headquarters.

Erdoğan Aydın, a historian and researcher on Turkey’s Alevis, told bianet that Ottoman Sultan Selim the Grim marked the symbol of the annihilation of Alevis - a group that constituted half of Anatolian population in the 16th century.

CHP, Turkey’s main opposition party, completed a report on the situation of jailed journalists in Turkey, underlining that the number of jailed journalists (71) in 2013 is actually more than the number of jailed journalists (31) in 1980 - after the military coup on September 12.

CHP deputy Gök told bianet that AKP’s bill to limit the sale and consumption of alcohol aimed to impose a conservative lifestyle through legislations in the name of protecting public health of the youth.

Peace and Democracy Party deputy Kürkçü submitted an official inquiry to Interior Minister Muammer Güler regarding the recently released Redhack cables on the twin blasts in Reyhanlı that left 51 people dead.