With her red cotton summer dress and white bag, she might have been floating across the lawn at a garden party; but before her crouches a masked policeman firing teargas spray that sends her long hair billowing upwards.
Endlessly shared on social media and replicated as a cartoon on posters and stickers, the image of the woman in red has become an important symbol during days of violent anti-government demonstrations in Turkey.
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"That photo encapsulates the essence of this protest," said math student Esra at Besiktas, near the Bosphorus strait and one of the centres of this week's demonstrations. "The violence of the police against peaceful protesters, people just trying to protect themselves and what they value."
In one graphic copy plastered on walls the woman appears much bigger than the policeman. "The more you spray the bigger we get", reads the slogan next to it.
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The United States and the European Union as well as human rights groups have expressed concern about the heavy-handed action of Turkish police against protesters.
On June 3 Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan branded the protesters extremists "living arm in arm with terrorism", a description that seems to sit ill with the image of the woman in red.
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There have been others dressed in more combative gear and sporting face masks as they threw stones, but the large number of very young women in Besiktas and on Taksim Square where the protests began is notable.
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As demonstrations continue, protesters are coming better prepared now than when the unrest first began. Some have hard-hats, some are dressed all in black, most wear running shoes. But many are dressed as femininely as the girl in the red dress snapped on Taksim Square.
