I THINK KEMAL ATATURK WOULD WANT THEM TO BE MORE ACTIVE: In Turkey, protesters try a new approach: Standing still. “Protesters opposed to the 10-year rule of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday that he may have driven them from central Istanbul’s Gezi Park, which they had occupied for more than two weeks, but that he could not arrest them for standing still. More than a thousand people trickled into Taksim Square throughout the day, staring silently at a massive portrait of the country’s founding father that security forces hung last week on a building. The new style of protest — inspired by a single performance artist who on late Monday appeared to be the first to do it in Taksim Square — came on a day of continued crackdown by Erdogan’s government.”

Plus, from Erdogan: “Shooting tear gas at people is the most natural right of police.”