For many Turks, unease about the government began to boil over on Tuesday at a small sit-in protesting the destruction of the tree-lined Gezi park to make way for a redevelopment of an Ottoman barracks and shopping mall.

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She says the end result, a simple tree with oversized star silhouettes, could just as easily sit in London's White Cube Gallery as in her living room.

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Told by the vice principal they could sit wherever they pleased, the student and his pals plopped down under the sprawling branches of a shade tree in the campus courtyard.

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