Gezi Park protests

As part of the events organized for the six-day long Istanbul Forum for Arab Journalists, 60 visiting participants were taken to see the construction of Istanbul's new airport on May 10 and told about all the services that would be offered. 

Turkish authorities began taking security measures in Istanbul's historic Taksim Square a day before May 1, International Workers' Day, despite a government ban to mark the event there. 

Police on March 25 were holding seven students from Istanbul’s prestigious Boğaziçi University after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accused them of behaving like “terrorists” for staging a protest opposing Turkey’s military campaign in Syria.

A police officer was sentenced to two years and one month in jail on March 21 for shooting and killing Ethem Sarısülük during the 2013 Gezi Park protests. The sentence was later converted into a punitive fine. 

The private owners of at least 600 public buses in Istanbul withdrew their buses from service on March 9 to protest financial hurdles announced by the Istanbul municipality. 

Canan Kaftancıoğlu, the newly elected Istanbul chair of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), has apologized to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for sharing a picture that includes an open insult to the president’s mother during the 2013 Gezi protests.

The Constitutional Court has ordered an investigation into police officers who have been suspected of having a role in Süleyman Göksel Yerdurt’s broken arm during the Gezi Park incidents in 2013, saying the state’s dismissal of the case had been “out of line with human dignity.”

Twenty police officers must testify in the killing of Berkin Elvan, a 14-year-old who died after being shot by a tear gas canister by police during the Gezi Park Protests in 2013, an Istanbul court ruled on Dec. 13.

Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) could replace at least 13 Istanbul district heads and the total number of provincial heads replaced nationwide could rise to 30 by the end of March 2018, daily Hürriyet has reported.

An Istanbul court has ordered the Interior Ministry to pay over 1 million Turkish Liras in compensation to an academic who lost an eye during a police crackdown on the Gezi protests in 2013.