After a day filled with police violence against unarmed, peaceful occupiers and protesters, one of my old friends from high school, living near Taksim Square in Istanbul reported: “It’s midnight, and my street is alive. All the neighbours are leaning out their windows, stepping out on their balconies, whistling, banging pots and pans, shouting, ‘Tayyip istifa! Tayyip istifa!’” (Resign Tayyip, resign!)