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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan inaugurates the Taksim Mosque in Istanbul. Its construction was considered controversial as its location was considered to be secular space, with earlier plans to build it near Gezi Park contributing to protests in 2013.
2021-05-28

Turkish police fire tear gas and rubber bullets at demonstrators marching to Taksim Square. Over 200 people are arrested at protests around the city of Istanbul.
2017-05-1

In an unusual show of unity, tens of thousands of supporters of Turkey's ruling party and the country's main opposition parties hold a cross-party "Republic and Democracy" rally in support of democracy in Istanbul's central Taksim Square.
2016-07-24

An explosion occurs in Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey, kills five people, including two dual citizenship Israeli-Americans and one Iranian citizen, and injures several dozen others.
2016-03-19

Turkish police fire tear gas at hundreds of protestors in Istanbul and Ankara as protestors mark the anniversary of the start of the ongoing protests.
2014-05-31

Turkey opens a sea tunnel connecting Europe and Asia across the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul.
2013-10-29

Police use water cannon, tear gas and rubber bullets on thousands of civilians gathered in Istanbul's Taksim Square for a memorial to the 4 protestors killed in previous days.
2013-06-22

Police move past the barricades in Istanbul's Taksim Square, occupied by protesters.
2013-06-11

Turkish protestors are removed from Gezi Park in Taksim Square, Istanbul, in a violent crackdown by police after days of anti-government unrest.
2013-05-31

Thousands of people gather in Istanbul's central Taksim Square in memory of 9 activists killed during the Gaza flotilla raid a year ago.
2011-05-31