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Water cannons and tear gas helped Turkish police to disperse demonstrators marking the first anniversary of Gezi Park protests.

Taskim Square in Istanbul, Turkey's biggest cities, was virtually sealed off by 25 000 police preventing citizens from reaching the venue. Armored vehicles had been also deployed to safeguard a ban on gatherings this weekend imposed by the government.

We all know how Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan considered the Gezi wave of protests that shook Turkey for three weeks a year ago.

The main opposition Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) candidate for the Ankara municipal post on the March 30 local elections, Mansur Yavaş, has signaled the red light for candidacy in the August presidential elections.

May 31 marked the first anniversary of the Gezi protests with a plethora of events online and onsite in parks across the country. Facebook events, timelines and compilations online were accompanied by the revival of the Gezi forums, the screening of an anticipated documentary in parks and more

Baghdad vents its fury at Ankara for its role in exporting Kurdish oil to the world amid KRG threats to secede from the rest of Iraq Turkey has been “driven by greed” in an escalating row over oil pumped from Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region and shipped overseas, Baghdad’s top energy official has said, after northern Iraqi leader Masoud Barzani reportedly threatened to consider s

The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Nils Muiznieks, has expressed his indignation after Turkish police’s brutal handling of the demonstrations marking the anniversary of Gezi protests May 31, condemning the “excessive use of violence.”

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s criticism of a leading Turkish-origin German politician is “natural,” because he used his “right to reply,” the Turkish Foreign Ministry has suggested.

As protest groups prepare to take the streets on the symbolic anniversary of the start of last year’s Gezi events despite large scale police measures, some minor demonstrations took place in other parts of the country

A humanitarian tragedy in Tanzania is added to the list of Turkey’s foreign policy priorities as the efforts to become a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council becomes more visible An ongoing humanitarian tragedy in Tanzania is now an item on a long and diverse list of Turkey’s foreign policy priorities as the country’s hectic efforts to become a non-permanent member of th

The head of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) provincial branch in Ankara has resigned, apparently as part of a reorganization of the party according to results of the March 30 local elections.