İstanbul Metropolitan Mayor İmamoğlu has announced that they are planning to organize a competition for the urban planning and design of Taksim Square. “I don’t think these huge, stark naked squares ...

Taksim Square is the most well-known transportation hub and meeting point for Istanbullus. Occupying a huge area at one end of Istiklal Street, it's known mostly for its historical and cultural import ...

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 ...

The police's heavy-handed response saw demonstrators' numbers surge It’s a congested, sprawling transport hub surrounded by 1950s architecture and predominantly used by commuters or tourists to cross ...

Turkey's president has inaugurated a landmark mosque on Istanbul’s Taksim Square, fulfilling a long-time ambition to build a Muslim house of worship in the city’s main public space that has become an ...

Istanbul's mayor has ordered police to continue operations "day and night" to clear Taksim Square, as Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed he would show "no more tolerance" for the ...

Project on square in Istanbul with secular history was beset by years of legal wrangling Taksim Square, one of Istanbul’s most famous cultural battlegrounds and the scene of 2013 protests against ...

Police barricaded Istanbul’s main Taksim Square and used water cannons to disperse crowds on Saturday to prevent demonstrators from entering Gezi Park, the site of protests for more than a month.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan inaugurated a landmark new mosque on Istanbul’s Taksim Square on Friday, fulfilling a long-time ambition to build a Muslim house of worship in the city’s main ...