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A municipal official has been injured in an assault during the demolition of a cafe. The municipality has condemned the incident.

Amine Cansu Kaba has announced her resignation from the ruling party on social media. Kaba was also working in the executive of the AKP Üsküdar Women’s Branch and serving as the Üsküdar District Vice Chair for the AKP.

One of the wounded is in serious condition. Authorities say it was probably a natural gas explosion.

The İstanbul Anadolu Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has demanded up to 7 years in prison for 11 people, including two siblings who had the trees at a park cut because they were blocking their view of the Leander’s Tower from home.

The İstanbul 11th Administrative Court has cancelled the Üsküdar Municipality’s tender for a rehabilitation project to be launched on the Validebağ Grove.

The Üsküdar Municipality in İstanbul previously appealed against the decision of stay of execution given for the development plan of the Validebağ Grove. The İstanbul Regional Administrative Court has rejected this appeal.

The Municipality of Üsküdar entered the Validebağ Grove with excavators and lorries at 5.30 in the morning. Speaking to bianet, Arif Belgin from the Validebağ Volunteers says that the police hinder their resistance and calls on everyone for support.

Following the ruling AKP’s Üsküdar Municipality, the Ümraniye Municipality has also tried to prevent the opposition-led İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality teams from setting up a new cheap bread buffet in the district. Citizens have protested.