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İstiklal Avenue once again became the center for fine arts and leisure in Istanbul and real estate prices skyrocketed. Numerous new art galleries, bookstores, cafés, pubs, restaurants, shops and hotels were opened in and around the street, and venues around it became the host to many international art festivals, such as the annual Istanbul ...
Thousands of protesters from Kadıköy (the Asian side of the city) walked across the Bosphorus Bridge around 06:00 local time, to join the main protest groups in Taksim. They were met with police intervention. [23] [25] At 3:45 pm, the police force started to withdraw from Taksim Square, letting protesters in.
In addition to serving as the main transfer point for the municipal bus system, Taksim Square is also the terminus of the Hacıosman-4. Levent-Taksim-Yenikapı subway line of the Istanbul Metro. The nostalgic tram that operates between Taksim Square at north and Tünel Square at the southern end of Istiklal Avenue.
Taksim Military Barracks, built 1806, turned into Taksim Stadium in 1921, and demolished in 1940 Gezi Park as seen from the Marmara Hotel on Taksim Square The initial cause of the protests was the plan to remove Gezi Park , one of the few remaining green spaces in the center of the European side of Istanbul.
Taksim Square - Gezi Park Protests, İstanbul: Date: 1 June 2013, 16:27: Source: İstiklâl Caddesi, Taksim Square - Gezi Park Protests, İstanbul: Author: Alan Hilditch from Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire
A terrorist attack occurred on İstiklal Avenue in the Beyoğlu district of Istanbul, Turkey, on 13 November 2022 (), [7] [8] killing 6 people and injuring 81 others. [9]No group has claimed responsibility, but Turkish authorities announced that Kurdish separatists were behind the attack, [10] implicating the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Syrian Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
The plan for a mosque in Taksim Square has been in the making since 1952. The "Taksim Mosque Building and Sustenance Association" was founded with the aim to construct a mosque in Taksim Square, but was closed after the 1980 military coup in Turkey. The Council of State stopped the Taksim Mosque project in 1983 on the grounds that it was "not ...
The bombing took place on İstiklal Avenue, a shopping area popular with tourists and considered the busiest avenue in Turkey. [4] [11] However, the bombing took place at a time when the avenue was relatively quiet. [5] The site of detonation was a few hundred metres away from a place where police buses are usually parked. [8]