Although the square was generally calm early Wednesday, there were fears of further violence. And I'm Melissa Block. In Istanbul, crowds of protesters are once again gathering at Taksim Square ...

Just over two weeks ago, bulldozers came to raze Gezi Park, a green space in Istanbul’s central Taksim Square. The park was to be destroyed to make way for a reconstructed Ottoman artillery ...

See exclusive photos from the scene by Yusuf Sayman. On Saturday, riot police pulled back from central Istanbul’s Taksim Square, and the tear gas cleared. But both sides in the conflict gripping ...

Following a night of clashes between riot police and anti-government protesters in Turkey’s Taksim Square, a tense calm returned to the protest area early Wednesday. Turkish Prime Minister ...

ISTANBUL — The skeleton of a large new mosque has risen up on the west side of Istanbul’s Taksim Square in the last year, dwarfing the monument to the secular Turkish republic’s founder ...

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Istanbul authorities on Wednesday closed metro trains, buses and Bosphorous ferries, paralysing Turkey's biggest city in a bid to prevent May Day demonstrations. Ahead of the holiday, police ...

With protesters calling to march on Istanbul's Taksim Square, coffins symbolising the death of justice, and calls for resistance, the recent protests roiling Turkey have reawakened the Turkish ...

Police in Istanbul have used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse protesters who tried to break through a barricade to reach the city’s Taksim Square in defiance of a ban on May Day rallies.

The Constitutional Court ruled that the decisions preventing May Day celebrations in Taksim Square in 2014 and 2015 violated the right to organize meetings and demonstrations. A symbolic compensation ...