Endlessly shared on social media and recreated as artwork on posters and stickers, the image of the woman in her red cotton summer dress and necklace,white bag slung over her shoulder has become the leitmotif for female protesters
Thousands of people remained at a makeshift camp at Taksim, which has become a focal point of the demonstrations.Small tents have appeared, food and face masks are on sale and a library is being created
Since then, the demonstrations by mostly secular-minded Turks have spiraled into Turkey's biggest anti-government disturbances in years, challenging Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's power.
The protests are seen as a display of frustration against Erdogan, who has appeared to be increasingly authoritarian and is accused of forcing his conservative, religious Islamic outlook on the lives of secular Turks
Clashes spread overnight to the eastern province of Tunceli, where police fired tear gas and water cannon at hundreds of protesters who set up barricades and threw stones at them, witnesses said
Police intervened in a similar way against demonstrators in the capital, Ankara, as well in Hatay province on the Syrian border where a 22-year-old man died after being hit in the head at a rally late on Monday June 3,2013
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