Taksim Gezi Park
From 28 May 2013 protests began to occur against plans to replace Taksim Gezi Park with a shopping mall and possible residence. The protests developed into riots when a group began occupying Taksim square and the police tried to suppress the demonstrations. The subjects of the protests have since broadened beyond the development of Taksim Gezi Park. The protestors did not have a predetermined, concrete agenda, other than stopping the demolition of Gezi park, and this was nowhere more visible than in the ever‐changing list of demands presented to the government by Taksim Solidarity Platform (Taksim Dayanışma Platformu), the only body which came close to representing the diverse crowds of protesters - rich, poor, LGBT, Turks, Kurds, Sunni and Alevi. Issues such as freedom of assembly and freedom of expression, as well as more broadly defending the secularism of Turkey coexisted with the protests of anti-capitalist Muslims against the economic neoliberalism of the government. The protests also spread to other cities in Turkey, and protests were seen in other countries with significant Turkish communities.