ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish police charged May Day protesters in Istanbul on Thursday, detaining hundreds of people and ...

The Turkish state has brutally repressed the May Day protest in Taksim Square in Istanbul. People have been taking to the ...

Turkish police detained hundreds in Istanbul during May Day protests on Thursday. Demonstrators defied a ban on public ...

Police arrested nearly 400 people in Istanbul on Thursday, with parts of Turkey's biggest city paralysed in a bid to prevent ...

Police detained hundreds as leftist groups attempted to reach Taksim despite bans, while thousands joined a permitted May Day ...

Police-state repression is part of the government's drive to crush social and political opposition by establishing a ...

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

The crowd that gathered in Mecidiyeköy and began marching towards Taksim at 10:30 was met with a harsh police intervention.

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

Amnesty International called for Turkish authorities to lift the ban on May Day (also called Labor Day) gatherings in Istanbul’s Taksim Square on Wednesday. Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional ...

More than 100 people were detained in the past two days police raids in İstanbul and İzmir targeting groups calling for May ...

Turkish police scuffle with May Day protesters in Istanbul, forcefully detaining some of them :: May 1, 2025 :: Istanbul, ...