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Oregon running back Kenjon Barner (24) scores a touchdown as Southern California safety Jawanza Starling (29) attempts to make the stop during the second half of an NCAA college football game, Nov. 3, 2012, in Los Angeles. Oregon won 62-51. (AP Photo/Bret Hartman)

NCAA

Students salute as they sing their national anthem before classes begin in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, Monday. Classes resumed Monday in a sign of some return to normalcy after the passing of Hurricane Sandy, but more than 100 schools remain shuttered due to storm damage. (AP Photo/Ismael Francisco, Cubadebate)

Cuba storm

Roger Federer of Switzerland arrives on court to play Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia during their ATP World Tour Finals singles tennis match at the O2 Arena in London, Tuesday. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

Roger Federer

Vice President Joe Biden, accompanied by his wife, Jill Biden, and son Beau Biden, waves to members of the media after casting his ballot at Alexis I. duPont High School, Nov. 6, 2012, in Greenville, Del. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Joe Biden

Reserve bank governor Gill Marcus displays bank notes bearing the image of former President Nelson Mandela, in Pretoria, South Africa, Tuesday. New South African banknotes featuring the image of former President and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela are going into circulation. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)

Nelson Mandela bank notes

Voters wait in line to cast their ballots outside a polling station during elections in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Tuesday. Puerto Ricans are electing a governor as the U.S. island territory does not get a vote in the U.S. presidential election. But they are also casting ballots in a referendum that asks voters if they want to change the relationship to the United States. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)

Puerto Rico election

Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Linda McMahon walks with her ballot in hand while voting in Greenwich, Conn., Tuesday. McMahon and Democratic opponent Chris Murphy were vying for the Senate seat now held by Joe Lieberman, an independent who's retiring. McMahon was defeated. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Linda McMahon

Protesters demonstrate against Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez in front of the Casa Rosada in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday. Angered by rising inflation, violent crime and high-profile corruption, and afraid Fernandez will try to hold onto power indefinitely by ending constitutional term limits, the protesters banged pots and marched in Argentina's capital. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

Argentina protest

On Wednesday, Amina Al Sado, 5, who fled with her family from the violence in their village, poses for a photograph inside a tent at a displaced camp, in the Syrian village of Atmeh, near the Turkish border with Syria. Most of the displaced people in the tent camp rising near this village on the Syrian-Turkish border are children. All have fled the violence of Syria's civil war further south. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Syria displaced children

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, talks about the elections and the unfinished business of Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday. President Barack Obama is slating a White House appearance on Friday, Nov. 9, to set the tone for upcoming talks with congressional Republicans on avoiding the so-called fiscal cliff. Republicans are drawing a line in the sand against higher tax rates for upper-income earners, seeking to topple the conventional wisdom that the freshly reelected Democrat has the whip hand in upcoming negotiations. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

John Boehner

Marijuana plants flourish under the lights at a grow house in Denver, on Thursday. Marijuana legalization votes this week in Colorado and Washington state don't just set up an epic state-federal showdown on drug law for residents. The measures also opens the door for marijuana tourism. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

Marijuana Colorado

Chicago Bulls center Joakim Noah (13) shoots over Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kevin Durant (35) as Russell Westbrook (0) watches during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Thursday, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

NBA

People arrive in the chapel of the Cementerio General with decorated human skulls on metal platters, to offer a prayer before attending the Natitas Festival at the largest cemetery in La Paz, Bolivia, Thursday. "Natitas" are human skulls from unnamed, abandoned graves that are cared for and decorated by faithful who use them as amulets, believing they serve as protection from thieves. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

La Paz, Bolivia

Radhouane Nouicer, the U.N.'s regional humanitarian coordinator for Syria, briefs the media during a news conference at the headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini)

Radhouane Nouicer

Posters decorate the street scene outside government buildings in Dublin, Ireland, Friday, before the historic referendum on an upcoming Saturday to decide on increasing legal protection for children in Ireland. Ireland's government is asking voters to agree to insert stronger rights for children into the constitution, a measure designed to make it easier for state agencies to protect children from abuse and for neglected kids to be adopted. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

Ireland children

USA's pilot Jazmine Fenlator with brakewoman Lolo Jones races to a second-place finish in the women's bobsled World Cup competition on Nov. 9, 2012, in Lake Placid, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

Jazmine Fenlator

Supporters of Referendum 74, which would uphold the state's new same-sex marriage law, cheer at a news conference Wednesday, in Seattle. Supporters of gay marriage in Washington state declared victory Wednesday, saying they don't see a way for their opponents to prevail as votes continue to trickle in on Referendum 74. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Referendum 74

Patrick Murphy, the Democratic candidate for Florida's 18th Congressional District, talks to supporters during a "thank you" tour of his district, Thursday in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)

Patrick Murphy

Cara Jennings joins the demonstration outside the Palm Beach Circuit Court building where people are demanding U.S. Rep. Allen West, R-Fla., stop his battle to keep his congressional seat, in West Palm Beach, Fla., Thursday. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)

Cara Jennings

The coffins of slain farmworkers stand in a row during a funeral ceremony in Santa Rosa de Osos in Colombia's Antioquia state, Friday. On Wednesday, a drug-trafficking paramilitary group killed 10 peasants on a farm in northern Colombia, authorities said Thursday. (AP Photo/Luis Benavides)

Colombia slain workers

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The protests take on a festive element as police forces move out of the park and square. Wearing a gas mask, this young man dances to traditional Turkish music in front of Taksim Square’s Ataturk Monument.

In Gezi Park since March 31st, this protester, originally caught off-guard by the Government’s teargas and water cannons, went out and bought a Russian army mask from WWII, preparing for what was to come.

This rambunctious boy seems to be enjoying the chaos. After taking this picture he threw a stone at the already destroyed building in the background.

Forming a line, the police face off directly with protesters in Taksim Square. After a while, they retreated and there was a general cheer – a back-and-forth dance that has been common since the beginning of this protest.

An elderly woman in Gezi Park reads the news. The tent community occupying the park was violently destroyed on June 16th.

Many different groups had set up booths to promote their cause in Taksim Square and Gezi Park. Standing in front of one, this man waves his flag while posing with conviction.

Many home-remedies are used to minimize the effects of tear gas. This woman has put a milky solution on her face, removing her mask after the tear gas dissipated. Before sunrise, the police came again for another round of teargasing.

People capitalize on the uprising -- selling flags, beer, gas masks, sky lanterns and spray paint to name just a few of the popular items.

On Monday morning, June 11, the police execute a strong offensive. Many plain-clothed police officers, like the ones seen here, clash with protesters in the side streets away from the main stand-off in Taksim.

The authorities seem to be most aggressive in the night, pushing protesters away from the square and park. After being teargassed this young woman catches her breath with other protesters on Siraselviler Street.

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