The stormy anti-government demonstrations that rocked Turkey for nearly three weeks appear to have subsided, but the fault lines have been drawn and protesters will find other ways to voice their discontent, observers say.

The demonstrators who have been standing silently still in Istanbul’s Taksim Square in recent days are a far cry from the running battles that were fought between police and thousands of demonstrators at the same site just last week, when volleys of tear gas were answered with fireworks and rocks.

The demonstrators may have switched tactics, but that doesn’t mean their anger has subsided against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who stands accused of authoritarian tendencies and of forcing Islamic, conservative reforms on the mainly Muslim but constitutionally secular country.

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