Author Yaşar Kemal has been awarded with Bjørnson Prize by Norway’s Literature and Freedom of Expression Academy. “Nobody should forget that every war is a death order,” he said at a panel after the award ceremony.

Ahmet Kaya, a protest Kurdish singer who died in 2000, was selected to receive the 2013 Grand Presidency Prize in Culture and Arts.

"ReFrame" exhibition in London brought together various caricaturists from the UK, Algeria and Turkey with illustrations on Gezi Resistance from Turkish artists

A court held the first hearing of Emek Movie Theater protest case with defendants SİYAD member Berke Göl, Özgür İpek, Mehmet Ferit Aka and Hazar Berk Büyüktunca.

On the verge of closing its shutters, Robinson Crusoe Bookstore in downtown Istanbul has launched a campaign to create revenue with a “pay now, buy after” card offer. While 750 cards have already been ordered, Turkey’s authors are also supporting the bookstore with book-signing days.

The rainbow stairs linking Fındıklı and Cihangir neighborhoods in Istanbul has been painted grey by municipality workers this morning. Initially painted colorfully by Hüseyin Çetinel, the stairs were turned grey by paint used for covering wall writings.

The administration of NTV Tarih, a popular history magazine in Turkey, closed down the publication as it was preparing a special issue on Gezi Park protests.

While images from Gezi Park Resistance expose power, violence and maleness; they also sets memory of those who took the streets and resisted.

Greeting Gezi Parkers in Turkish, Joan Baez sang John Lennon’s "Imagine".

Taksim Gezi Resistance is creating its own tunes. There is a rising trend in the number of songs on the 10th day of the resistance.

Gezi Park Library is expanding incessantly. Everyday hundreds of new items are admitted and distributed to activists free of charge. The lending and borrowing items of the library almost functions 24/7.

Turkey’s prominent artists released a joint statement yesterday that condemned mainstream media censor on Gezi resistance and demanded objective coverage.