taksim gezi park

Taksim Dayanışması, a solidarity group, reiterated its position against the construction in Taksim Gezi Park, claiming that the City Preservation Council requested stakeholder municipalities to investigate the legal grounds of the ongoing construction.

Police and dozers have left Taksim Gezi Park, as BDP deputy Sırrı Sureyya Önder and CHP Party Assembly member Gülseren Onanç arrived to the construction area demanding proper deconstruction licenses.

As Taksim Gezi Park, the last remaining green spot in Istanbul's busy downtown, faced threats by urban renewal projects, locals have taken action to turn the park into city's new alternative culture hub.