The police's heavy-handed response saw demonstrators' numbers surge It’s a congested, sprawling transport hub surrounded by 1950s architecture and predominantly used by commuters or tourists to cross ...

Protesters run in panic as riot police and water cannons returned to Istanbul's Taksim square late afternoon June 11, 2013. Turkish riot police fired tear gas and used water cannon against ...

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 barracks.

Editor's note: This piece has been updated as news is breaking. For more than a week, protesters had free rein of central Istanbul’s Taksim Square, massing daily in defiance of the government as ...

Here is a summary of today’s key events in Turkey: Taksin Square remained calm today as hundreds of protesters in nearby Gezi Park considered their next move following last night’s police raid on the ...

11 June: When I finally got through to my Turkish friends on Tuesday 4 June the worst of the fighting was over. They reported that both Gezi park and Taksim, Istanbul’s great square, were in the hands ...

Hundreds of thousands of protesters in the streets of Istanbul. Tens of thousands of policemen attacking with teargas bombs and rubber-bullets. The Bosphorus bridge heaving with demonstrators.

The police's heavy-handed response saw demonstrators' numbers surge It’s a congested, sprawling transport hub surrounded by 1950s architecture and predominantly used by commuters or tourists to cross ...