page_title: Timeline of the Gezi Park protests
section_title: 8 June
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of the Gezi Park protests / 8 June
caption_attribution_description: Clashes with police during protests in Ankara (tear gass application). Events of June 7-8, 2013.
context_page_description: The following is a timeline of the Gezi Park protests in Turkey of citizens and supporters against actions and plans of the government of Turkey. The timeline is segmented into days.
context_section_description: Protests continue on Taksim square with support of major İstanbul football clubs' supporters. They collaborated to put flares on the top of the Atatürk Cultural Center.
  The AKP decided to hold two "unity and solidarity" rallies, in Ankara on 15 June and Istanbul on 16 June. Erdoğan said "We don't do what a few looters did. They set things on fire and destroy. That's the definition of looter (çapulcu)."
  An article published in Reuters reported that "Sources close to the AKP speak of a sense of siege within the party leadership, with influential if disparate forces loath to break ranks publicly but still worried about the extent of Erdogan's power and his uncompromising response to the protests."
  A private AKP executive meeting that took over 4 hours was held and numerous scenarios including calling a snap election, delaying Erdogan's presidential bid by changing AKP by-laws that prevent Erdogan from running for a fourth term as prime minister and potential further social media censorship are understood to have been discussed. Following the meeting he publicly reaffirmed that he would not step down and refused to call a snap election as a bid in breaking the deadlock, in turn uncompromisingly issuing a challenge to his political opponents to out-poll his party in the March 2014 municipal elections.
caption: Police in Ankara clash with protesters on the night of 7–8 June 2013
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