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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

Protesters clash with police in Turkey after a 15-year-old boy died from a head injury sustained during anti-government protests.
2014-03-11

2013 protests in Turkey: The Turkish government offers to put the development project that sparked the initial protests to a public vote.
2013-06-12

Turkish police carry off dozens of lawyers, with reports that some have been kicked in the head and subjected to other assaults.
2013-06-11

2013 protests in Turkey: Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called protestors "a handful of looters".
2013-06-9

Turkey's Ahmet Davutoğlu announces an investigation into police attacks on civilians with tear gas and water cannon in cities nationwide.
2013-06-5

An image known as "The Lady in the Red Dress" showing a policeman in a gas mask hosing a woman with pepper spray becomes the defining image of Turkey's pro-democracy demonstrations thus far.
2013-06-5

Following Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's denunciation of Twitter as a "menace to society", police arrest 25 people on charges relating to the use of social media to speak ill of the government.
2013-06-5

Support for the protests in Turkey spread across Europe with demonstrators gathering outside the EU Parliament in Brussels, and France.
2013-06-4

Turkey's public sector unions start a two-day strike in support of the anti-government demonstrations.
2013-06-3