Istanbul streets fill the protesters violent nights since the protests broke out

Michela Sweijer, who is in Istanbul for a weekend trip, has just told me that it seems to calm down the streets now - at least where she lives I live five minutes from Taksim Square and now it's actually pretty quiet out there, she says.

Turkey is being Islamized and this should be stopped due to protests. Turkey is a secular state and we Turks not tolerate religion in politken