Your ads will be inserted here byEasy AdSense.Please go to the plugin admin page to paste your ad code. A Turkish protester dubbed the “standing man” has led a vigil on Istanbul’s Taksim Square days after the authorities evicted demonstrators. Performance artist Erdem Gunduz stood silently for eight hours, facing a portrait of Kemal Ataturk, [...]
Your ads will be inserted here byEasy AdSense.Please go to the plugin admin page to paste your ad code. A British man has survived a fall from the 15th floor of a building in New Zealand, local media report. Tom Stilwell fell from his neighbour’s balcony in his apartment block in Auckland at 02:00 local [...]
Unions in Turkey have called a one-day nationwide strike to protest against the police crackdown on anti-government demonstrations. The Confederation of Public Workers’ Unions (KESK) and Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions (DISK) are demanding an end to “police violence”. The move comes after continued sporadic clashes between protesters and police in Istanbul and the capital [...]
The Turkish government says it has agreed to suspend redevelopment plans for an Istanbul park until a court ruling, after talks with protesters. The plan to rebuild an old barracks on Gezi Park has sparked Turkey’s biggest anti-government protests in decades. A government spokesman said there would be no attempt to start the project until [...]
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has issued a “final warning” to protesters to leave Gezi Park in central Istanbul. “Our patience is at an end. I am making my warning for the last time,” he said. Clashes between police and protesters in the park and adjoining Taksim Square have continued for nearly [...]
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