Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Tuesday commemorated the ninth anniversary of the failed coup d’état which was staged ...

Taksim Square was where Istanbul's water was distributed -- Taksim means divide The site is seen as symbolizing the seclar Turkish republic founded by Ataturk Erdogan's government's plans to alter ...

In Taksim Square in Istanbul, the skeleton of a large new mosque dwarfs the Ataturk monument, dedicated to the founder of Turkey’s secular republic. Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times ...

The crowds in Taksim Square had free rein in the pre-dawn hours on Sunday. For days, Istanbul’s main square and the normally bustling pedestrian thoroughfare that spills into it had been the ...

ISTANBUL — Police sealed Istanbul's central Taksim Square on Sunday, a day after they cleared it in a tear-gas-filled conclusion to two weeks of anti-government protests in Turkey. Clashes ...

A group called Islamic Solidarity Platform called another protest Tuesday, prompting police to shut Taksim Square and ...

Osman Kavala, the respected Turkish human rights defender, has been behind bars in Istanbul’s Silivri high security jail for ...