But proposed changes to Taksim Square have seen it become the flashpoint for protests that have swept through Turkey in the past week, leaving thousands injured and focusing the world’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

Newsnight's Paul Mason was in Taksim Square in the heart of Istanbul on Sunday night when the police used tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon to try to clear the protesters.

The blast, caught on tape by shocked onlookers, rattled the heart of Taksim Square around 4:20 p.m. local time. The eruption soared in an orange ball of flame on a pedestrian street in the city ...

despite a ban on Public gatherings.Hundreds of protesters were dragged away and taken into custody as chaos ensued at Istanbul’s Taksim square. #TurkeyProtests #MayDay2025 #IstanbulClashes # ...

The BBC's Sophie Hutchinson has spoken to some of the protesters who have found themselves demonstrating on the frontline in Turkey over the past week. For some the protests are about preventing ...

But proposed changes to Taksim Square have seen it become the flashpoint for protests that have swept through Turkey in the past week, leaving thousands injured and focusing the world’s ...