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An Uneasy Calm in Istanbul as Protests Continue at Taksim Square
After a night spent under clouds of police tear gas, protesters in Istanbul’s Gezi Park on Wednesday cleaned up the debris, fortified their encampment, dressed their wounds and said they would stay on....
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Turkish Gov’t Open to Referendum to End Protests
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The Turkish government is open to holding a referendum over an Istanbul development plan that has had a central role in nearly two weeks of mass protests, a spokesman for Prime...
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Turkey PM Gives ‘Final Warning’ to Park Protesters
(ISTANBUL) — Turkey’s prime minister issued a “final warning” to protesters on Thursday, demanding they end their occupation of a park next to Istanbul’s Taksim Square that has ignited the largest...
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Turkey Protests Enter Crucial Phase
(ANKARA, Turkey) — Turkey’s biggest anti-government protests in decades are set to enter a pivotal stage after the government promised to suspend redevelopment of an Istanbul square that has sparked...
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Defiant Gezi Park Protesters Keep Turkish P.M. Erdogan at Bay
Two weeks into nationwide anti-government protests, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan finally met with demonstrators’ representatives late on Thursday night in an apparent bid to seek compromise on a...
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Riot Police End Istanbul Park Protest
(ISTANBUL) — Turkish riot police firing tear gas and water cannons took less than half an hour on Saturday to bring to an end an 18-day occupation of an Istanbul park at the center of the strongest...
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Turkish Police Crack Down On Revival of Protests
(ISTANBUL) — Turkish riot police fired tear gas and water cannon on Sunday at still defiant demonstrators after authorities evicted activists from an Istanbul park, maintaining their hard line against...
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After a Violent Weekend Crackdown, Turkey Braces for More Chaos
On Sunday morning, neighborhoods across Istanbul woke up to what has by now become a hauntingly familiar smell — tear gas. Before dawn, clouds of it enveloped the Bosporus Bridge, as riot police...
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Unions Prepare Strikes to Support Turkey Protests
(ISTANBUL) — Turkish trade unions urged their members to walk out of work Monday and join demonstrations in response to a widespread police crackdown against activists following weeks of street...
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Turkey Vows to Strengthen Police Powers
(ANKARA, Turkey) — Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he will increase police powers following a wave of anti-government protests. The announcement came Tuesday as police carried out...
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Erdogan’s Crisis: How Protests Undermined Turkish Leader’s Legacy
In 2011, as regional leaders were toppled from power, one after the other, Turkey’s strident Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan looked like he had it all: a thriving economy (the world’s...
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Germany Blocks Turkey’s E.U. Accession Talks
(LUXEMBOURG) — Germany has blocked the next step in the European Union‘s membership talks with Turkey over Ankara’s crackdown on anti-government protests, a diplomat from an EU nation said Thursday....
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Turkish Police Unleash Water Cannon on Protests
(ISTANBUL) — Turkish police used water cannon to disperse thousands gathered in Istanbul’s Taksim Square on Saturday to observe a memorial for four people killed during recent anti-government protests....
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Erdogan’s Paradox: Turkish Leader Struggles Between Authoritarianism and...
Turkey — the bridge between East and West. That’s how the cliché goes, a saying that endures because it’s physically true: “Welcome to Europe” reads the sign on one side of a bridge over the Bosporus,...
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Police Break Up Gathering at Istanbul Square
(ANKARA, Turkey) — Police in Istanbul are using tear gas and water cannon to disperse protesters gathered at the city’s landmark Taksim Square with the intention of entering a park which has been...
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Did Egypt Experience a Coup? The West May Not Be Sure, but Turkey Is
As the U.S. State Department performs all sorts of semantic gymnastics to avoid defining the Egyptian army’s ouster of the country’s Islamist President Mohamed Morsi as a coup, politicians in Turkey...
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Erdo-gone? After Taksim, Turkish Leader’s Political Future May Hang in the...
By Sunday night, most of the businesses on Istiklal Avenue, Istanbul’s biggest pedestrian street, seemed to have had their front teeth knocked in. ATM screens glared and winked stupidly from behind...
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Live from ‘Occupied’ Gezi Park: In Istanbul, a New Turkish Protest Movement...
Last Friday, Ali Riza Gurs, manager of a local food business, saw the number of sit-in demonstrators at an Istanbul park swell, and spotted a problem: They were hungry and thirsty and would not leave...
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As Turkey’s Protests Continue, Attention Falls on Failures of Turkish Media
As epic clashes between antigovernment protesters and riot police turned downtown Istanbul into a battle zone last weekend, the country’s two main news channels had, well, not much to report. One ran a...
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The Daily Worry: How I Learned to Live With Bombs in Turkey and Israel
It is unsettling the first time the doors of a shopping mall glide open to reveal a magnetometer, an X-ray machine and a person wearing a holster. Less so the second time, and the point quickly arrives...
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