FILE PHOTO: Turkish police use water cannons to disperse protesters at Taksim square in Istanbul, Turkey, June 11, 2013. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis/
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Unzile Aksakoglu struggles to explain to her seven-year-old daughter why her father Yigit has spent four months in jail and may never leave, because of his alleged role in mass protests against Turkey's government when she was just a year old.
After all, the people originally prosecuted over the 2013 protests - which began against the redevelopment of central Istanbul's Gezi Park and grew into nationwide anti-government unrest - were acquitted.
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