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 ...

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 ...

Police in Istanbul have used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse protesters who tried to break through a barricade to reach the city’s Taksim Square in defiance of a ban on May Day rallies.

Taksim Mosque, which has been Erdoğan's "favorite project" since he was the Mayor of İstanbul, was built on a much larger area than it was originally planned during his prime ministry. Taksim Mosque ...

Nestled within the meticulously renovated "Maksim" theatre and music hall, a cultural heritage dating back to the 1920s, Sofitel seamlessly intertwines French art-de-vivre with Turkish warmth at the ...

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 ...

It’s a congested, sprawling transport hub surrounded by 1950s architecture and predominantly used by commuters or tourists to cross the city of Istanbul. But proposed changes to Taksim Square have ...

Istanbul, Turkey – Thousands of worshippers turned out in Istanbul’s central Taksim Square on Friday to mark the inauguration by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of an imposing, and controversial, new ...

Several thousand demonstrators clashed with police in central Istanbul Wednesday to protest a mine disaster that killed at least 274 people, the country's worst mining accident ever. Turkish police ...