Taksim Square is a place of 'huge symbolic significance for the Turkish trade union and workers movements', Amnesty said ...

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On Thursday, protesters attempted to march towards the city centre's Taksim Square, where all protests have been banned for years, in overcast and rainy weather. Police blocked them in the central ...

Istanbul authorities on Wednesday closed metro trains, buses and Bosphorous ferries, paralysing Turkey's biggest city in a ...

Ahead of the holiday, police arrested 100 people allegedly planning to protest on Istanbul's central Taksim Square, where demonstrations have been banned since 2013. The government is also ...