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 ...

“Taksim Square is connected to Istiklal Caddesi – Independence Avenue – and Cumhuriyet Caddesi – the Avenue of the Republic. So there is a lot of symbolism that has to do with the Turkish ...

“Our determinacy with regard to Taksim Square and the Gezi Park will continue.” he said. “I am sorry, but Gezi Park is a park not a place to occupy.

Blink - Online identity & payment technologiesThe reconstruction of the Taksim barracks wouldn’t be the first architectural replication with plausible political motives. In 2000, Vladimir Putin ...

After police broke up the protests in Turkey's Taksim Square over the weekend, a new protest has sprung up — but this one is still and silent. A lone man stood motionless in the square for six ...

The Taksim Metro Station cat has called the station and its escalators home for three years It’s the epitome of cat behavior. An eight-second clip that has been viewed over 1.3 million times on ...

The police violence around Taksim Square came as no surprise to anyone who knows how demonstrations in Diyarbakir often end. But this time, it wasn’t Kurds marching.

“Taksim Square is connected to Istiklal Caddesi – Independence Avenue – and Cumhuriyet Caddesi – the Avenue of the Republic. So there is a lot of symbolism that has to do with the Turkish ...