TOPSHOTS Demonstrators hold placards reading "Dont touch my cinema (L), dont touch my stag e(2nd-L), dont touch my art (R), dont touch my life style (back-R) as they stand during a protest at Taksim square in Istanbul on June 7, 2013. Turkey's leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan braced on Friday for a showdown with angry protesters after loyalists rallied in his support, risking a potential escalation of a week of deadly unrest. Greeted by thousands of cheering supporters as he landed back in Istanbul in the early hours from an overseas trip, the prime minister defied the protesters rallying against him and his conservative reforms in the fiercest challenge yet to his decade-long rule. AFP PHOTO/GURCAN OZTURK