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Thousands of CHP supporters hold sit-in protest in Taksim against OHAL

Thousands of supporters of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) held a sit-in in İstanbul’s Taksim area on Monday protesting government plans to...

Gov’t bans May Day celebrations in Taksim Square

Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has rejected a request from Confederation of Revolutionary Workers' Unions (DİSK) Chairman Kani Beko to hold May Day celebrations...

Reina gunman says gave up staging attack in Taksim due to heavy security

Abdulkadir Masharipov, the prime suspect in a Jan. 1 massacre at the Reina nightclub in İstanbul who was arrested in a police operation on...

Police intervene with LGBT pride marchers after governor’s office ban

Turkish police on Sunday intervened with LGBT pride marchers who gathered in İstanbul’s Beyoğlu after İstanbul Governor’s Office banned the march over “security concerns.” The...

Erdoğan insists ‘Topçu Barracks’ will be built in Gezi Park

Presdient Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Saturday that the “Topçu Barracks” will be built in Taksim’s symbolic Gezi Park. “We will reconstruct that historical building,”...

İstanbul governor bans LGBTI parade in Taksim over Orlando attack

İstanbul Governor’s Office has banned a pre-scheduled LGBTI pride parade to take place in Taksim on June 19 and 26, after a recent attack...

15 detained in Chamber of Architects on anniversary of Gezi protests in controversial eviction

Istanbul police evicted on Tuesday a building of the Turkish Chamber of Architects on Beşiktaş District Governor’s order, detaining 15 architects who resisted, on...

207 detained during May Day celebrations in İstanbul, report says

A total of 207 people were detained in İstanbul as police clashed with protesters during May Day celebrations, according to a news report. Police intervened...

İstanbul Governor’s Office bans May Day celebrations in Taksim

A petition filed by the Civil Servants' Trade Union (Memur-Sen) at the İstanbul Governor's Office in March requesting the celebration of May Day in...

Suspected ISIL militant identified as perpetrator of Taksim attack

Turkish authorities have identified the perpetrator of a suicide bombing that rocked İstanbul's busy Taksim neighborhood on Saturday as 24-year-old Mehmet Öztürk who is...

İstanbulites defy terror, say ‘we are not afraid’ at blast site

Many people in İstanbul visited the site of a deadly explosion on Sunday that rocked the city's central Taksim neighborhood  on Saturday to give...

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