Anonymous carried a series of cyber attacks on government-related websites today after releasing a video supporting Taksim Gezi Park resistance. Collaborating with Turkey’s Redhack, Anonymous also temporarily restricted the access to official websites of Presidency, AKP and Istanbul Police Headquarters.

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.

An Antalya court suspended the trial of Canan Arın - advocate and founder of Mor Çatı women organization who was charged with “insulting Prophet Mohammed and President Abdullah Gül - providing that she will not be sued over the same charges for the next 3 years.

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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.

Mütha Çetin, a female journalist from Dicle News Agency, has been detained last night by the police as she took photos of another woman who was being allegedly attacked by a traffic police officer. Released the same night, Çetin received an assault report.

Taksim Dayanışması, a solidarity group, reiterated its position against the construction in Taksim Gezi Park, claiming that the City Preservation Council requested stakeholder municipalities to investigate the legal grounds of the ongoing construction.

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.

Police and dozers have left Taksim Gezi Park, as BDP deputy Sırrı Sureyya Önder and CHP Party Assembly member Gülseren Onanç arrived to the construction area demanding proper deconstruction licenses.

Gendarmerie forces intervened a discussion between police officers and family members of defendants who are standing trial over the Operation “Return to Life” at Ümraniye Prison, spraying pepper gas and locking family members down in the courtroom.