Last night we decided to throw a party with fairly low expectations. See, our friend Öykü was going to invite her friends for what we expected to be a medium-sized party. At the last minute, she couldn’t round up very many people so I put a short post on CouchSurfing.com for the hell of it and we invited everyone we could find at a bar in Taksim. We thought we’d be eating cookies on the floor.

At around 3am Saturday, with all of our neighbors shouting obscenities at our crowded balcony, the Turkish police came knocking. Pictures after the cut.

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