ISTANBUL Riot police fired tear gas, water cannon and rubber bullets in day-long clashes that lasted into the early hours Wednesday, battling protesters who have been occupying Istanbul's central ...

A scaffold collapse at the metro construction site on Meclisi Mebusan Street in Beyoğlu, Istanbul, resulted in one fatality ...

Housed in an ornate former Ottoman palace on the shores of the Bosphorus Strait, the Çırağan Palace Kempinski Istanbul is the ...

Two Romanians were injured in an armed incident in Taksim Square in Istanbul on Sunday, November 9. The two were part of a ...

Tourists ride a tram at Taksim Square in Istanbul, Türkiye, July 30, 2024. Taksim Square is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Istanbul. (Photo: Xinhua) A child plays at Taksim Square in ...

Along with a lot of information in Turkish there are quite a few Tweets pointing at the environmental nature of the protest with tree-saving and maintaing green space in an over urbanised city as the ...

The Sub-Governor’s Office of Beyoğlu has banned the LGBTI+ Pride March to be held in Taksim. The police attacked the group who gathered in Taksim. Using plastic bullets, they have taken at least 20 ...

"Last year has passed with oppression, violence and bullying for both LGBTI+s and the whole society. However, we don't back down from our rights, existence, and freedom," reads the press statement ...

Over the last two weeks, the world has witnessed history unfold in a small park in the heart of Istanbul, Taksim Square. What started out as a peaceful protest to save Gezi Park and its trees from ...

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 Mustafa Kemal ...